At a time when aid effectiveness is under scrutiny, Ethiopia is embracing a new approach to make health aid work – not least with an innovative programme to train and deploy thousands of ‘health extension workers’ in communities across the country. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was appointed health minister of Ethiopia in 2005, having worked at the ministry of health since 1986. As a malaria re...

Approximately 34,000 aerial photographs covering large parts of Ethiopia and dating back to 1935-41 have been recently recovered. These allow investigating environmental dynamics for a past period that until now was only accessible from terrestrial photographs or narratives. As the archive consists of both oblique and vertical aerial photographs that cover rather small areas, methods of image-b...

The Awi Agew is one of the most ancient inhabitants northern and central highland plateau Ethiopia. They occupied this until seventeenth century but have been displaced or absorbed over region by Semitic-speaking peoples. Horses were probably introduced into Ethiopia from Nile valley during second half millennium B.C. As are early aforementioned Ethiopia, their introduction with horse breeding ...

The paper engages in the discussion of conducting research in war zones, initiated in Disasters by Barakat and Ellis. It looks specifically at possibilities for research in the war zones of Eritrea and Northern Ethiopia during the 1980s, and notes the ways in which this context differs from wars in the former Yugoslavia to which Barakat and Ellis mainly refer. The authors suggest that the uniqu...

BACKGROUND Household contacts of active tuberculosis cases are at high risk of getting tuberculosis disease. Tuberculosis detection rate among contacts of household members is high. Hence, this study investigated household contact screening adherence and associated factors among tuberculosis patients in Amhara region, Ethiopia. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted from April 10 - Jun...

Rift Valley sites in southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya preserve the oldest fossil remains attributed to Homo sapiens and the earliest archaeological sites attributed to the Middle Stone Age (MSA). New localities from the Kapedo Tuffs augment the sparse sample of MSA sites from the northern Kenya Rift. Tephrostratigraphic correlation with dated pyroclastic deposits from the adjacent volcano S...

A new species of chameleon, Trioceros wolfgangboehmei sp. nov. , inhabiting the northern slopes Bale Mountains in Ethiopia, is described. It differs from its Ethiopian congeners by a combination following features: presence prominent dorsal crest with low number enlarged conical scales reaching along anterior half tail as crest, casque raised above heterogeneous body scalation, long canthus par...

Deforestation in the northern highlands of Ethiopia has left 35,000 forest fragments ranging in size from 3 to 300 ha (Bongers et al 2006). Deforestation produces edges which increase disturbance within the forest such as decreased water availability and increased light. To determine the degree of these edge effects and the nutrient status of these forests, I analyzed the nutrient composition o...

Background: Gallstone disease constitutes a significant health problem in developed countries. While it was thought to be uncommon in Africa, it currently seems that the disease is more frequently seen than expected. The magnitude of gallstone disease is not well studied in Ethiopia. The purpose of this study is to determine the magnitude of the problem as seen in Ayder Referral Hospital in Mek...