Family planning integration in Ethiopia's primary health care system: a qualitative study on opportunities, challenges and best practices.

Background: Family planning (FP) service integration into primary health care (PHC) is an effective approach to realize reproductive autonomy, increase the use of contraceptives, and improve maternal and child health outcomes. The Ethiopian government promotes integration of FP services into primary health care (PHC). However, there is paucity of evidence on the status of FP service integration.

Barriers to Active Aging in Rural Ethiopia: A Call for a Paradigm Shift to a Rights-Based Approach.

Despite historical veneration of elders in many African nations, older adults are increasingly viewed as a burden. Using a hermeneutic phenomenological approach, in-depth interviews were conducted to explore the aging experiences of 20 adults aged 70 and older in rural Ethiopia. Themes that emerged from the interviews were analyzed in light of the three pillars of the World Health Organization's : health, security, and participation.

Challenges of Aging in Rural Ethiopia: .

The literature recognizes that gerontological inquiries are generally scarce in Africa compared to the developed countries. Despite the overall dearth of gerontological studies in Ethiopia, most of the research conducted on issues of older people hitherto excluded rural older people. Many rural older people are totally excluded from community-based long-term care, public pension, and suffer a plethora of plights.

"The Ugly Face of Old Age": Elders' Unmet Expectations for Care and Support in Rural Ethiopia.

As migration, urbanization, and aging accelerate in developing nations, traditional family supports for elders are diminishing. With these trends in mind, hermeneutic phenomenology was used to examine the experiences of 10 rural Ethiopian elders of age 70 and older. Narrative data from in-depth interviews revealed three prominent themes: the "good old days," drained happiness, worry and pessimism.

Factors associated with Leishmania asymptomatic infection: results from a cross-sectional survey in highland northern Ethiopia.

Background: In northern Ethiopia the prevalence of visceral leishmaniasis is steadily rising posing an increasing public health concern. In order to develop effective control strategies on the transmission of the disease it is important to generate knowledge on the epidemiological determinants of the infection.

Methodology/principal Findings: We conducted a cross-sectional survey on children 4-15 years of age using a multi staged stratified cluster sampling on high incidence sub-districts of Amhara regional state, Ethiopia.

Low prevalence of Leishmania infection in post-epidemic areas of Libo Kemkem, Ethiopia.

In Libo Kemkem (a district of Amhara region, Ethiopia), no cases of kala-azar had ever been reported until 2005 when an outbreak occurred. Over one-third of those cases were children under 15 years of age. The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence of Leishmania infection in children aged 4-15 years.