Nurses' pain management practices for admitted patients at the Comprehensive specialized hospitals and its associated factors, a multi-center study.

Background: Pain is the most common challenge that most hospitalized patients complain of and is influenced by several patients, nurses, and institutional-related factors. Most studies in Ethiopia on pain were focused on surgical illnesses only.

Objective: To assess nurses' pain management practice and associated factors for admitted patients at Comprehensive Specialized Hospitals.

Gender disparity in epidemiological trend of HIV/AIDS infection and treatment in Ethiopia.

Background: The HIV/AIDS epidemic has been fuelled by gender inequality and disparity resulted in violation of women reproductive right. The "feminization" of the pandemic is more apparent in Sub-Saharan Africa where the larger numbers of HIV infected people are living. Although they carry the higher proportion of HIV cases; access to care and treatment is lower among women.