Challenges to joint planning, monitoring, and evaluation for nutrition-sensitive agriculture in Ethiopia: an exploratory qualitative study.

Background: Nutrition-sensitive agriculture is an effective multi-sectoral approach to address the underlying causes of malnutrition. However, successful implementation requires the involvement of different sectors to jointly plan, monitor, and evaluate key activities, which is often challenged by contextual barriers. Previous studies in Ethiopia have not adequately explored these contextual barriers.

Nutritional status among women whose pregnancy outcome was afflicted with neural tube defects in Tigray region of Ethiopia.

Background: Nutritional deficiency in pregnant women is a confirmed cause of neural tube defects (NTDs). Alongside to this background, We sought to determine the nutritional status and level of awareness on the issue of the NTDs as well as folic acid (FA) utilization among women who born infants with NTDs in Tigray region of Ethiopia.

Method: A standard interviewer and a food frequency questionnaire was used to obtain information from mothers of cases with neural tube defects (n = 205) and their controls (n = 412).

High burden of neural tube defects in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia: Hospital-based study.

Introduction: Neural tube defects are the major causes of fetal loss and considerable disabilities in infants. Currently, there is no significant research on the incidence of Neural tube defects in the Tigray region of Ethiopia.

Objective: To determine the incidence and clinical pattern of the Neural Tube Defects.

Maternal risk factors associated with neural tube defects in Tigray regional state of Ethiopia.

Introduction: Unlike developing countries, including Ethiopia the identification of the risk factors in decreasing the burden of neural tube defects (NTDs) is well established in the developed world. Hence, we sought to determine the factors associated with NTDs in Tigray - Ethiopia.

Methods: We undergo a case-control analysis where all NTDs cases were compared to a group of controls derived randomly from the same hospitals where cases were recruited from.