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Cervical cancer prevention program activities in Wonsho District of Sidama Zone

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Photo@ www.groundsforhealth.org The first cervical cancer prevention program activities in rural health centers of Ethiopia’s coffee-growing regions. The team led a two-day community health promoter training to begin the process of engagement and recruitment of women for screening. This was followed by a two-day classroom training with local doctors and nurses and a four-day clinical training through a screen and treat campaign. The passion and expertise of in-country coordinator Ashenafi Argata and community coordinator Abiy Semunigus, together with the support of Grounds for Health Clinical Consultant Susan Hollinger and Amy Borgman, physician assistant and clinical volunteer, were indispensible in making the trip a success. Read more@  http://www.groundsforhealth.org/2014/11/trip-report-ethiopia/

WHY MUST WE WORRY ABOUT GROWING INEQUALITY IN ETHIOPIA?

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By Solomon G/S In 2012, I wrote an essay titled “The Growing Inequality in Ethiopia” that was posted on a few Ethiopian Diaspora websites such as Abugida and Abay Media. In that essay, while trying to explain the manifestations of growing inequality,   I did not justify or even explain why we should worry about the injustice of growing inequality. I will try to do that here because it is important for a number of reasons. The 1960’s generation of Ethiopian youth was impressed and influenced by the egalitarian philosophy of Marxism. For the then Ethiopian society where class cleavages were apparent based on land holdings and other properties, the influence of an egalitarian philosophy could not be underestimated. Today’s generation has no overarching philosophy to anchor a belief in arresting the growing inequality in Ethiopia. While the time-tested religious influence plays an aspirational role for seeking equality, religion alone has been shown not to be sufficient. On to

HwU’s CASCAPE project holds a high profile delegation site visit

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Ambassadors, delegates from around 30 embassies, numerous staff from the Embassy of The Kingdom of the Netherlands in Addis Ababa, national and regional project coordinators of CASCAPE, heads of major stakeholders the likes of AGP and representatives from Regional Agriculture Bureau attended the field day and site visit event organized by HwU’s CASCAPE project at one of the five Project sites- MelgaWoreda (Guguma Kebele) of Sidama Zone. The event which was  held on 30 October 2014 was adorned by poster presentations on the activities of the HwU’s CASCAPE project by its coordinator Dr. Tesfaye Abebe, PhD, Vice President for Research & Technology Transfer and its assistant coordinator Dr. Tewodros Tefera. During the event, a welcome speech was addressed to the participants by the Worada Administrator.  The delegation visited the project sites for malt-barley pilot-scaling, faba bean pre-scaling, sheep breed improvement, and cattle feed improvement (desho grass) guided by th

3D Map of Sidama

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Physical 3D Map of Sidama

Economic Cost of Malaria on Sidama Zone

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Abstract:        Malaria remains one of the major health problems in Ethiopia as in Sidama Zone, Southern People’s Nations and Nationalities Region. Though it fairly gets attention as a health problem, its cost on the economy stayed unnoticed. In the thesis, ‘Economic Cost of Malaria on Sidama Zone, SNNPR, Ethiopia’, an attempted has made to investigate and estimate the economic cost of malaria morbidity and mortality on households and public Health institutions in Sidama Zone. To conduct the study, cross sectional household survey of randomly selected 100 households from rural setting of Sidama Zone has been done.  Data collected by interview using the structured questionnaire and interviewing key informants from March 15 – April 01, 2011. Desk review done using checklist. The study area was chosen based on the agro-ecological feature and malaria prevalence of the Zone. The collected data analyzed using SPSS software; the findings were presented using tables and graphs. It was