Publications by authors named "Desalegn Chilo"
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- Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a widespread issue, primarily affecting women, with nearly one-third experiencing it globally, often perpetrated by men in various types of relationships.
- A study in Gambella town found a lifetime prevalence of IPV at 58.8% and 51.8% in the last year, with more than half resulting in physical injury and significant factors linked to IPV including age, substance use, and family size.
- Overall, the findings highlight a critical need for intervention and awareness, as high rates of IPV were strongly associated with various social and economic factors.
Background: Self-medication is the use of drugs without a medical prescription to treat self-identified illnesses; it is also the continued use of drugs without a physician's order for recurring symptoms, either by sharing or purchasing them from unlicensed vendors. It entails substantial risk to pregnant women and fetuses. Magnitude of the problem and its factors among rural pregnant women is not studied in Ethiopia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Wasting continued to threaten the lives of 52 million (7.7%) under-five children globally. Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for one-third of all wasted children globally, and Ethiopia is among the countries with the highest magnitude of Wasting in the region.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: In the attempt of searching for potential plant derived antimalarial medicines, the aim of the present study was to examine In vivo antimalarial efficacy of crude ethanol extracts of the leaves of and using chloroquine (CQ) sensitive strains of in Swiss albino mice.
Methods: To ascertain the safety level of the plant materials, crude extracts underwent oral acute toxicity assessments whereby mice received up to a single dose of 3000 mg/kg. Peter's four day standard antimalarial suppressive test was carried out to determine growth inhibition of parasitemia at tested doses of 400, 600, and 800 mg/kg of the extracts.