An increase in urban population and the rising demand for food and other essentials perpetuate a rise in the amount of waste being generated daily by each household. In Ethiopia, this waste is eventually thrown into open ...

Background: Household vectors transmit pathogens from one child to another. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence and determinants of household vectors on child health. Methods: A community-based cross-sectional ...

Background. Mismanagement of healthcare waste (HCW) during the COVID-19 pandemic can facilitate the transmission of coronavirus. Regarding this problem, there is gap of evidence in Ethiopia, and this study aimed to assess ...

Background: Coronavirus (COVID-19) is a virus that occurred in Wuhan, China in December 2019 and spread to several countries. Although a WASH intervention for COVID-19 is a likely pre-existing response to childhood diarrhea, ...

Background: Food poisoning is a food borne disease, mainly resulting from ingestion of food that contains a toxin, chemical or infectious microorganisms like bacteria, virus, parasite, or prion. On the other hand, avoiding ...

Introduction To prevent malaria starting from 2005 more than 2 billion insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) have been distributed globally. Even though Ethiopia has been doing nationwide ITN distribution starting from 2016 ...

Background: Soil-transmitted helminthic infections (STH) remain a significant public health concern among school-age children in developing countries, including Ethiopia. This study aimed to identify STH infection prevalence, ...

Background: Measles is a serious respiratory disease that is spread easily through coughing and sneezing of the measles virus for which humans are the only reservoir. Even though prevention and elimination strategies had ...

Background: Work place is a potentially hazardous environment where millions of employees pass at least one- third of their life time. However, hundreds of millions of people throughout the world are employed today ...