High Intention to Vaccinate Against Tuberculosis During Pregnancy and Lactation: Understanding Vaccine-specific Maternal Immunization Acceptance in Amhara, Ethiopia.

Background: Tuberculosis (TB) disease during pregnancy results in adverse maternal and infant outcomes. The development of a TB vaccine with potential for administration during pregnancy or lactation is a priority identified by the World Health Organization. We assessed the acceptability of vaccines currently administered during pregnancy [tetanus, diphtheria and COVID-19] and willingness to receive a new TB vaccine during pregnancy and/or lactation among Ethiopian women.

Understanding the risk perception of visceral leishmaniasis exposure and the acceptability of sandfly protection measures among migrant workers in the lowlands of Northwest Ethiopia: a health belief model perspective.

Background: Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is the leading cause of health concerns among Ethiopian migrant workers. Understanding risk perception and health-protective behavior are significant challenges in the prevention and eradication of the disease. As a result, studies are required to assess these important epidemiological factors, which will provide guidance on how to assist migrant workers in taking preventive measures against VL.

Water insecurity in 3 dimensions: an anthropological perspective on water and women's psychosocial distress in Ethiopia.

Water insecurity is a primary underlying determinant of global health disparities. While public health research on water insecurity has focused mainly on two dimensions, water access and adequacy, an anthropological perspective highlights the cultural or lifestyle dimension of water insecurity, and its implications for access/adequacy and for the phenomenology of water insecurity. Recent work in Bolivia has shown that scores on a water insecurity scale derived from ethnographic observations are associated with emotional distress.

Food insecurity among volunteer AIDS caregivers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia was highly prevalent but buffered from the 2008 food crisis.

Our objective in this study was to assess the validity and dependability of the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS), which was developed for international use, among community health volunteers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The HFIAS was translated into Amharic and subsequently tested for content and face validity. This was followed by a quantitative validation study based on a representative sample (n = 99) of female community volunteers (HIV/AIDS home-based caregivers), with whom the HFIAS was administered at 3 time points over the course of 2008, in the context of the local and global "food crisis.