Background: The identification of epidemiological pattern of infection with Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium
vivax in malaria-endemic area, where multiple episodes are common, is important for intervention ...
Background: Focused antenatal care is evidence based, client-centered, goal oriented care and
provided by skilled health providers. The concepts arise from the view that every pregnant
woman is at risk of complication. ...
Background: Integrated Management of Neonatal and childhood illnesses an integrated
approach to child health that focuses on the wellbeing of the whole child. The program aims to
reduce death, illness and disability, and ...
Background: Integrated community case management of childhood illness (ICCM) is one
of the important intervention to decrease the under-five morbidity and mortality at
community level. Ethiopia is one of the country with ...
Background: The national TB control program has currently achieved 100 percent geographical
coverage and 92% of public hospitals and health centers offer tuberculosis directly observed short-course
treatment. Despite ...
Introduction: Macrosomia is defined as birth weight of 4,000 g and above irrespective of gestational age and affects 3-15% of all pregnancies. Multiple factors and maternal, fetal and neonatal complication are related with ...
Background: The incidence of twin pregnancy is increasing all over the world because of assisted reproductive
technology or spontaneously as a result of numerous risk factors. It is associated with increased risk of ...
Background: Antepartum haemorrhage complicates three to five percent of pregnancies contributing to perinatal and maternal morbidity and mortality. Timely access to quality obstetric services is the major determinant of ...
BACKGROUND:-The end stage of delayed or poorly treated AHO is chronic osteomyelitis (COM).
Here, a chronic infection of the involved bone is perpetuated by the presence of a sequestrum. The
sequestrum is surrounded by ...
Background: The widespread use of indoor-based malaria vector control interventions has been shown to alter the
behaviour of vectors in Africa. There is an increasing concern that such changes could sustain residual ...
Nowadays people spend their time more indoor than outdoor. Their activity makes them
exposed to many environmental pollutants that affect their health. The microbes are normally
present in both indoor and outdoor ...
Background: Over recent decades, more pregnant women around the world have undergone labor induction to
deliver their babies. In developing countries up to 25% of all deliveries at term now involve induction of labor, but ...
Background: Infection prevention plays a key role in preventing a n d reducing the rate of
healthcare associated infections. Proper infection prevention practices are fundamental to quality of
care, and essential to ...
Daniel Desta; Lelisa Sena; Teshome Kabeta(2017-06)
Background: Food insecurity is both cause and consequence of deleterious clinical
outcome among PLHIV associating with CD4 decline, lowered BMI, viral RNA
suppression, increased opportunistic infections, hospitalization ...
Background: Patient safety is crucial to the quality of patient care and remains challenging for
countries at all levels of development. There is a popular acknowledgement of the importance of
establishing patient safety ...
Background: Urbanization is one of the main causes for ecological problems due to the
introduction of pollutants into water bodies. Degradation of water resources with pollutant
effluent occurs by altering attributes ...
Background: Health workers turnover is an increasing problem that threatens the functioning
of the health care sector worldwide, especially in developing countries like Ethiopia. Although
the number of Hospitals in west ...
Background: Inter-pregnancy interval is defined as the time lapsed between two consecutive pregnancies.
The length of interval is dependent on the duration of each component, with the postpartum amenorrhea
and the ...
Mohammed Jemal; Chernet Hailu; Mamo Nigatu(2017-06)
Background:- Intestinal parasitic infection is distributed worldwide, especially in developing
countries with low socio-economic status and poor living conditions. In Ethiopia, intestinal
parasitic infection is a major ...
BACKGROUND: Parasitic infections, caused by intestinal protozoan and helminths,
affect more than two billion people worldwide (1). These infections are more prevalent
in the poorest sections of the population and ...