This first, extensive, facility-based study of health services utilization in central, southern and
western Ethiopia reveals steep distance decay gradients and underutilization of rural health …

Background: Many traditional medicines are sold by vendors in the large Merkato market
area in Addis Ababa but little is known about their trade, use, safety and sustainability …

Abstract Background In 2003, the Ethiopian Ministry of Health (MOH) started to implement a
national antiretroviral treatment (ART) program. Using data in the monthly HIV/AIDS Updates …

Grass pea seeds were given different treatments including cooking boiling, autoclaving, dry
heating and fermentation into tempeh. Changes in the levels of the antinutritional factors due …

Health services utilization in Ethiopia was reported to be 0.27 in 2001 when the primary
health service coverage was only 49.1%(6). On the other hand, in 2009 (when the primary …

In 1952 the Ethiopian government began to develop a basic health service, with health
centers as its backbone. The orientation of medical care remained heavily hospital-based …

Introduction: Referral is a process by which a health worker at one level of the health care
system having insufficient resources (drugs, equipment and skills) to manage a clinical …