Publications by authors named "Fasil Teshager"
Article Synopsis
- Intussusception is a serious bowel condition where one part of the bowel collapses into another, causing blockage, and there is limited data on its prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly Ethiopia.
- A study was conducted to gather data on sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of children under 12 months with intussusception, revealing that out of 164 enrolled children, most were male and the average age of symptom onset was 6 months.
- Findings showed a high mortality rate of 13%, with children who died taking longer to seek medical help, indicating a need for improved management and timely treatment of this condition in Ethiopia.
Mobile phone data collection tools are increasingly becoming very usable collecting, collating and analysing data in the health sector. In this paper, we documented the experiences with mobile phone data collection, collation and analysis in 5 countries of the East and Southern African, using Open Data Kit (ODK), where questionnaires were designed and coded on an XML form, uploaded and data collected using Android-Based mobile phones, with a web-based system to monitor data in real-time during EPI comprehensive review. The ODK interface supports in real-time monitoring of the flow of data, detection of missing or incomplete data, coordinate location of all locations visited, embedded charts for basic analysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: A monovalent rotavirus vaccine was introduced in the Ethiopian Expanded Program on Immunization from November 2013. We compared impact of rotavirus vaccine introduction on rotavirus associated acute diarrhea hospitalizations and genotypic characteristics of rotavirus strains pre-and post-vaccine introduction.
Methods: Sentinel surveillance for diarrhea among children <5 years of age was conducted at 3 hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 2011 to 2017.
Article Synopsis
- A study was conducted in seven lower-income sub-Saharan African countries to assess if there is a link between the monovalent human rotavirus vaccine and intussusception in infants.
- Researchers enrolled 717 infants with confirmed intussusception and evaluated the timing of their vaccination, specifically looking at periods shortly after receiving the vaccine.
- The findings indicated that the risk of developing intussusception after vaccination did not exceed the normal background risk, suggesting that the vaccine is safe in these settings.