Northern Ethiopia
Bacteriological profile, risk factors and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of symptomatic urinary tract infection among students of Mekelle University, northern Ethiopia
... A laboratory-based cross-sectional study was conducted from February to September thirty, 2017 among univer- sity students at Mekelle University, Mekelle, northern Ethiopia. Mekelle city is the capital city ...
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Quality of the delivery services in health facilities in Northern Ethiopia
... Methods: A facility based survey was conducted from December 2014 to February 2015 in Northern Ethiopia. The quality of delivery service was assessed in 32 health facilities using a facility audit ...
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Nocturnal periodicity of Phlebotomus (Larroussius) orientalis (Diptera: Psychodidae) in an endemic focus of visceral leishmaniasis in Northern Ethiopia
... Knowledge on the sandfly nocturnal activity is note- worthy because it indicates the time when a person is most likely to be bitten by the sandfly vector and pos- sibly get leishmaniasis. It also reveals the best ...
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Mothers’ utilization and associated factors in preconception care in northern Ethiopia: a community based cross sectional study
... Methods: A community based cross-sectional design was conducted among 564 recently delivered mothers in Mekelle City, Northern Ethiopia. A multi stage cluster sampling technique was employed. Data was ...
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Ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants in Ganta Afeshum District, Eastern Zone of Tigray, Northern Ethiopia
... Description of the study area and selection of study sites Tigray is located in Northern Ethiopia at 12° and 15° latitude and 36° and 40° N east longitudes. The total area of Tigray is about 53,000 km 2 ...
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Survival of neonates and predictors of their mortality in Tigray region, Northern Ethiopia: prospective cohort study
... Fig. 2 Summary of Kaplan Meir survival estimate on the survival time of neonates born in Tigray region, northern Ethiopia, April – July, 2014 ( n = 1152). The graph shows the proportion of neonates who ...
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Premarital sexual practice and associated factors among adolescents in the refugee camps in Tigray, northern Ethiopia
... A community-based cross-sectional study was con- ducted in the refugee camps, located in North Tigray region, northern Ethiopia, at 1023 km from Addis Ababa. There are four refugee camps in Shire operation ...
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Evaluation of PCR procedures for detecting and quantifying Leishmania donovani DNA in large numbers of dried human blood samples from a visceral leishmaniasis focus in Northern Ethiopia
... As part of a study aimed at elucidating the role of symp- tomatic and asymptomatic L. donovani infected persons in the epidemiology of Kala Azar, we are conducting a thor- ough study of persons living in the endemic ...
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Honeybee production practices in Sekota district, northern Ethiopia
... This study was conducted to assess honeybee production practices in Sekota district, northern Ethiopia. The district comprises a total of 33 kebeles (peasant associations at the lowest admistrative level) ...
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Characterization of Climatic Data for Predicting Growing Period, the Case of Maichew, Northern Ethiopia
... In terms of improved crop production, knowledge and information of the crops and crop varieties grown in a given area is a better measure of climate, as applied to crop production in that region, than are complete ...
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Gender, social capital and empowerment in northern Ethiopia
... This paper investigates the interactions between gender, social capital and empowerment in the rural areas of northern Ethiopia. We define empowerment narrowly as the power of households to make important ...
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Assessment of Nutritional Status and Associated Factors among School Going Adolescents of Mekelle City, Northern Ethiopia
... Abstract: Adolescence is a period of rapid growth and maturation in human development, and that extra nutrients are needed to support their growth spurt. Adolescence is commonly regarded as a relatively healthy period of ...
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Characterization of Cactus Pear from Tigray, Northern Ethiopia
... This study was conducted in south Tigray which is one of the 36 districts of Tigray Regional State, Northern Ethiopia. It has tepid sub humid agro ecology and it divided into 20 'Tabias' (Peasant ...
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Prevalence and factors associated with stunting and thinness among adolescent students in Northern Ethiopia: a comparison to World Health Organization standards
... in Ethiopia [12, 34], we found that boys were affected more by undernutrition (both by stunting and thinness) compared to ...In Ethiopia, strategies in addressing the undernutrition among adolescents ...
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Effects of agricultural extension packages on income inequality: Case from Northern Ethiopia
... income and currently on income diversification. Habtemariam (2007) pointed out that the goals of many extension systems include improving agricultural productivity, attaining food self-sufficiency, producing industrial ...
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Quality of intrapartum and newborn care in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia
... Methods: Facility based survey was conducted from December 2014 to February 2015 in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia. The quality of intrapartum care provided by a total of 106 skilled birth attendants to 216 ...
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The impact of podoconiosis on quality of life in Northern Ethiopia
... Methods: A comparative cross-sectional study was conducted in May 2012, among 346 clinically confirmed adult patients with podoconiosis, and 349 healthy adult neighbourhood controls in Dembecha woreda (district) in ...
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Low birth weight and macrosomia in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia: who are the mothers at risk?
... Accordingly, we found the incidence of macrosomia to be 6.7%. The rate of macrosomia is within the worldwide and range of African studies [6]. This rate is higher than a prevalence from Democratic Republic Congo, Kenya, ...
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Effect of Planting Pattern and Weeding Frequency on Weed Infestation, Yield Components and Yield of Cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) WALP.] in Wollo, Northern Ethiopia
... Jari, northern Ethiopia, during the 2014 main cropping season: to evaluate the effect of planting pattern and frequency of weeding on weeds, yield components and yield of ...
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Availability and affordability of priority life saving medicines for under five children in health facilities of Tigray region, northern Ethiopia
... reports of a study conducted in Guatemala [22] which found an availability 46% in public sector and 35% in pri- vate sector whereas higher than the study done by Wang et al. 2014 [18] in China, which reported ...
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