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The Ministry of Health (MoH) (Amharic: ጤና ሚኒስቴር) is the Ethiopian government department responsible for public health concerns. Its head office is on Sudan Street in Addis Ababa. [2] Mekdes Daba has been the head of the ministry since February 2024. The organization is a cabinet level organization which has authority over the ...
Besides its Executive Office and a Science and Programme Office, the agency also has several divisions dealing with "policy, health diplomacy, and communication," "management and administration," "surveillance and disease intelligence," "laboratory systems and networks," "emergency preparedness and response," and " public health institutes and ...
As of 2014, the capital of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, had more than 52 hospitals, [6] 12 of them state run, and more than 40 private. The following hospitals are in Addis Ababa, a chartered city in the Regional State of Oromia.
Addis Continental Institute of Public Health (AC-IPH) is an independent center for public health research and training. It was established in mid-2006 by health experts to provide technical services and training in major health issues in Africa. The institute is based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Ethiopia is one of the fastest growing countries in Africa, having more than 104 million people (the second most-populous in the region).It experiences the public health problems typical of an underdeveloped country, such as communicable diseases (HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, etc), maternal and child health problems (diarrhoea & dehydration, pneumonia, neonatal problems etc) and malnutrition ...
Zewditu Hospital is a hospital in central Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It was built, owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, but was nationalized during the Derg regime in about 1976. The hospital is named after Empress Zewditu, the cousin and predecessor on the throne of Emperor Haile Selassie. Today, Zewditu Hospital is operated by ...
Ethiopia is the second most populous country in sub-Saharan Africa, with a population of over 120 million people. As of the end of 2003, the United Nations (UN) reported that 4.4% of adults were infected with human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS); other estimates of the rate of infection ranged from a low of 7% to a high of 18%.
Menelik II Referral Hospital (Amharic: ቀዳማዊ ምኒሊክ ሪፈራል ሆስፒታል) is a public health care hospital in Addis Ababa, and is one of the oldest hospitals in Ethiopia. Named after Emperor Menelik II , it was established in 1909, serving as a tertiary care hospital that provides with specialized services in the country. [ 1 ]