Studies have indicated that social stigma related to podoconiosis (endemic non-filarial elephantiasis) has a major impact on the psychosocial wellbeing of patients. However, little effort has been made so far to quantify the level of both felt and enacted stigma in a range of domains of life. We used a recently developed podoconiosis stigma assessment scale to measure levels of stigma as recall...

The purpose of this study was to analyze the major factors for ineffective implementation continuous assessment and poor performance students. Hence, inorder realize overriding purpose, all 3 rd year senior students from colleges engineering, natural computational sciences, Health Medicine, instructors these were used as target population. Samples 60 45 selected using simple random sampling tec...

Soils are obviously inconstant and their properties changing across land use types. Essential soil physico-chemical assets impact the performance of and, therefore, information on property is important. The objective study was to determine effects different systems in Wolaita zone, southern Ethiopia. Soil samples were collected from three uses, enset ( Ensete ventricosum ), tef Eragrostis (Zucc...

Background. Transfusion-transmissible infections, human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, and syphilis are among the greatest threats to blood safety and pose a serious public health problem. Objective. To determine the magnitude of blood borne infections among blood donors at Wolaita Sodo University Teaching Referral Hospital. Methods and Materials. A cross-sectiona...

BACKGROUND Cost-sharing between beneficiaries and governments is critical to achieve universal health care coverage. To address this, Ethiopia is currently introducing Social Health Insurance. However, there has been limited evidence on willingness to join the newly proposed insurance scheme in the country. The purpose of this study is to assess willingness to join and pay for the scheme among ...