This study is an attempt to study the determinants of nutritional status of adolescents in Jimma zone using data from longitudinal family survey of youth. The survey collected information from a total of 2084 adolescents ...

Anemia in pregnancy is related to different socio-demographic, dietary and economic factors, Mother’s age, educational status, economic position, and antenatal care were significantly associated with anemia during pregnancy. ...

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is one of harmful traditional practice in developing countries including Ethiopia. This practice causes significant and irreversible damage to the physical, psychological and sexual health ...

The introduction of antiretroviral therapy in 1996 improved the longevity and wellbeing of peoples living with HIV in the industrialized world including children. This survival benefit of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in ...

Diabetes is a group of diseases marked by high or low level of glucose resulting from defects in insulin production, insulin action or both. There are two main types of diabetes, namely type I and Type II diabetes. The ...

Background: Hypertension is a chronic disease that has a major health problem over the centuries due to its significant contribution to the global health burden. According to World Health Organization, hypertension is ...

The survival time of HIV positive patients depends not only on the quality of care and highly active anti-retroviral therapy, but also on a host of other baseline demographic factors and clinical characteristics of the ...

Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a complex clinical syndrome that can result from any functional or structural cardiac disorder that impairs the ventricle’s ability to fill with or eject blood. There are different vital ...

The purpose of this study was to identify factors leading to mortality and statistically modeling the survival of premature infants. A sample of 490 preterm was taken from a hospital record at Jimma university specialized ...