An evaluation of the Africa-CORDEX regional climate model's performance in simulating air temperatures and precipitation in the Melka-Wakena catchment, southeast Ethiopia.

Understanding climate science is essential for effective policy development, adaptation, mitigation, and risk management. Given the inherent limitations in climate models, this study evaluates the performance of CORDEX Africa regional climate models to simulate precipitation and temperatures over the Melka-Wakena catchment. To accomplish this, the performance evaluation utilizes techniques such as multi-metric weighted ranking to select top-1 (best individual model), specific multi-model ensembles (top-N ensemble), multi-model ensemble, and average hybrid (top-N ensemble with MME) approaches at various temporal scales.

Late antenatal care booking and associated factors among pregnant women in Ethiopia: evidence from 2019 performance monitoring for action data analysis.

Introduction: Pregnancy is a crucial period for a woman, her family, and society. Early initiation of antenatal care (ANC) follow-up helps to identify pre-existing health conditions and complications arising during pregnancy. It also allows the mother to receive health promotion and disease prevention services.

Less than one in five teenage women in Ethiopia know about emergency contraception.

Background: Teenage women's fertility health faces significant challenges from unintended pregnancies and unsafe abortions. Using an emergency contraception within a defined time period could prevent unintended pregnancy and its damaging consequences, like unintended childbirth and unsafe abortion. Despite it being an appropriate contraception, the knowledge of teenage women about emergency contraception is lower among women in developing countries.

Missed opportunities of method information index plus (MII+) counseling among current modern contraceptive users. multi-level analysis from the Ethiopian PMA 2021 data set.

Introduction: In Ethiopia, there is a decrease in percentage of women who receive method information index counseling service from 39% (95%CI: 33%, 44%) in 2015 to 12% in 2019 (95% CI: 10%, 14%) nationally, and less than 40% of these services provided are high quality. Therefore, the aim of this study was to identify modern contraceptive users-related factors at individual level and community level associated with missed opportunities of method information index plus counseling.

Methods: This study used the datasets from the 2019 Performance Monitoring for Action Ethiopia Survey, which comprised a total of 8,365 households (98.