Introduction: Maternity waiting homes are temporary shelters for pregnant women located near to health institutions and it has been endorsed by WHO since 1996 as one component of a comprehensive package to reduce maternal ...

BACKGROUND: Many parents lack the necessary knowledge about sexuality, and many others are not at ease to discuss sexuality issues with their children. As a result, schools and television assume ever-more influence ...

Background: Mental distress is a syndrome of mental disturbance manifested by behavioral, psychological, and physiological reactions to a significant stressor. Objective: To assess the prevalence of mental distress and ...

Backgraound: The desire for large family size is one of the factors influencing fertility in Ethiopia. Thus, understanding factors that influence the fertility intentions of women is important for family planning ...

Back ground: World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) recommend that all mothers should breastfeed their children exclusively for the first 6 months; however a report in Ethiopia revealed ...

Background Sexual coercion is the act of forcing or attempt of force on another individual through violence, threat, verbal insist, deception cultural expectation and economic benefit and other related tactics to engage ...

Background: Malaria in pregnancy is a major public health concern, contributing to neonatal and maternal deaths, maternal anemia, low birth weight and it is the single most common cause of spontaneous abortion. Free ...

ckground:-HIV Stigma has an extremely important role in the AIDS epidemic, not only because of its effects on HIV-infected individuals, but also because of the ways in which stigma might be contributing to the spread of ...

Background: Currently each day approximately 7,100 new infections and 4,900 deaths by HIV/AIDS occur worldwide. Migrant mining workers are taken to be HIV vulnerable group in different part of the world. In Ethiopia they ...

Background: Though promising progress has been made towards achieving the Millennium Development Goal four through substantial reduction in under-five mortality, the decline in neonatal mortality remains stagnant, mainly ...