PRESS RELEASE Washington, DC — Wearing shoes and genomics are tied together in strategy to eliminate podoconiosis. Farmers in the highlands of southern Ethiopia scratch out a subsistence living from the region's volcanic red clay. The soil supports the farms, but fine-grained, volcanic rock particles in the dirt threaten the farmers and their...
In Ethiopia, where water is dangerously scarce, water found in the local pond may be contaminated. Parents often have little choice but to bring it home for their thirsty children to drink who need it to survive. This potentially deadly situation is all-too-common for families in Borena, an impoverished region in southern Ethiopia,...
TOMÁŠ Sýkora, a sixth-year medical student from Bratislava, has deep feelings of responsibility after spending three months helping children in Ethiopia. Though five months have passed since Sýkora returned from Africa, he instantly recalls Zanis, a little girl suffering from malnutrition who carried a plastic bottle tied into a scarf on her back to...
New York, USA – (Press Release) – Roche today announced a grant to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in New York City, which will be used for the establishment of a program to improve basic cancer care in Ethiopia. The grant funding comes from the Roche African Research Foundation....
By University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) A UCSF study shows a popular treatment for a potentially blinding eye infection is just as effective if given every six months versus annually. This randomized study on trachoma, the leading cause of infection-caused blindness in the world, could potentially treat twice the number of patients...
By Ryan McCarthy, Southend Standard AN optician has given the gift of sight to hundreds of impoverished Africans. Lee Davis spent a fortnight travelling Ethiopia, setting up temporary eye clinics and diagnosing problems that would otherwise go unnoticed. Mrs Davis and three other volunteers went with eye care charity, Vision Aid Overseas. The...
HealthCare Global Enterprises, (HCG) South Africa’s cancer network, announced that the company is planning to set cancer facility center in Ethiopia. The facility, which is estimated to be constructed within twenty months, needs a total investment of around twenty two million US dollars. “As we usually do elsewhere, we plan to set up...
AN OPTICIAN has spent a fortnight helping to set up clinics in Ethiopia. Jodi Beckton, 34, travelled to Butajira in Ethiopia where she worked with the charity Vision Aid Overseas. They aim to provide eye care to people in remote communities. Jodi, who works at Specsavers in Halifax, helped fit more than 800...
By Claudia Hammond BBC, Ethiopia The majority of Ethiopia's population live in rural areas and when they are ill many do not seek medical advice, but a new government programme hopes to change this at a local level. Eynalem Taye is 23-years-old, but her tiny frame makes her look like a slight teenager....
BBC's Hammond reports from Ethiopia about the government’s ambitious programme to improve the entire country’s healthcare by training local women to do it. Ethiopia’s Health Extension Programme was started in 2003 and aims to deliver health services to the whole country. Eighty-five per cent of Ethiopia’s population lives in rural areas. How do...
