Emergency medicine and its development in Ethiopia with emphasis on the role of Addis Ababa University, School of Medicine, Emergency Medicine Department.

Introduction: Globally Emergency Medicine (EM) is young discipline and even in developed countries it is about five decades old. In Ethiopia formal pre-hospital care or hospital based Emergency department (ED) development is a recent phenomenon and this article describes development of Emergency Medicine care in Ethiopia before, around and after Ethiopia millennium.

Methodology: Documents related to emergency medicine development and implementation from different government and nongovernmental data sources are used as a resource for this article.

Most common causes of natural and injury-related deaths in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

In Ethiopia, like many developing countries, autopsy is rare unless conducted in the medico-legal arena, making vital statistics that include pathological diagnoses sparse. To determine the most common factors contributing to death among individuals who died from natural or injury-related events in Ethiopia 200 consecutive autopsies were conducted in 2006 at the Forensic Medico-legal Pathology Department, Menelik II Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The results describe significant pathological observations, putative cause of death, age distribution, and gender ratios.

Patterns of neuroAIDS in Africa.

According to UNAIDS, the African population accounts for greater than half of persons infected with HIV. Nevertheless, little information exists characterizing HIV in this population. Thus, the natural history and progression of HIV in the African population is virtually undocumented and therefore, poorly understood.