Ethiopia News

National eHealth strategies crucial to achieving universal health coverage

Addis Ababa, 23 October 2013 -- An international three-day workshop on developing national eHealth strategies kicked off yesterday in Addis Ababa. Jointly organized by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and the World Health Organization (WHO), the workshop aims to facilitate the development of comprehensive eHealth strategies using the National eHealth Strategy Toolkit developed by WHO and ITU.

Ethiopia commits to expanding mental health services

In rural Ethiopia, people who suffer from mental, neurological and substance use disorders have very limited access to care as mental health services are mainly centralized around Amanuel Mental Specialized Hospital in Addis Ababa. However, things are changing slowly but surely.

US and Canadian Rotarians support Ethiopia's polio eradication efforts

Addis Ababa 18 November -- Rotarians from the United States of America and Canada have been supporting Ethiopia’s polio eradication efforts for over ten years. As part of their support, 32 Rotarians, representing the 24,000 Rotarians in the US and Canada, are currently visiting Ethiopia to better understand the challenges remaining to kick polio out of the country.

The House of Peoples' Representatives Awarded by WHO for its Contribution to Tobacco...

Addis Ababa. 8 July 2014 – The World Health Organization awarded the Ethiopian House of Peoples’ Representatives with a WHO Award for the House’s landmark contribution to tobacco control in Ethiopia by ratifying the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) on 21 January 2014. The Award was presented by Dr Pierre Mpele-Kilebou, WHO Representative to Ethiopia, on behalf of Dr Margaret Chan, WHO Director General.

Ethiopia intensifies Tobacco control efforts

Addis Ababa, 4 December -- State Minister Dr Kebede Worku, Federal Ministry of Health, announced yesterday at the “Get Involved in Tobacco Control” high level advocacy workshop in Addis Ababa that Ethiopia will soon ratify the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC). WHO FCTC is the first international treaty negotiated in response to the globalization of the tobacco epidemic. The Convention represents a milestone for the promotion of public health and provides new legal dimensions for international health cooperation.

WHO Ethiopia Moves to New Office Facility

WHO Ethiopia Moves to the New Office Facility in the UNECA Compound.  

WHO Ethiopia would like to announce to its partners that it has changed its office location and has moved to the New Office Facility (NOF) within the UNECA Compound. Office phone,fax and extension numbers will remain the same.

WHO will be housed in the ground and first floors of NOF.

Ethiopian Orthodox Church initiates a project to contribute to improvement of Health...

Ethiopian Orthodox Church Initiates Partnership to Improve Health Services

Addis Ababa, 17 December 2013 -- At an event that brought together the diplomatic community, develop-ment partners, UN agencies, the private sector and the Ethiopian Government on 10 December 2013 at Sher-aton Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (EOC) presented the Mekelle Debre Amin Abune Teklehaimanot Public Hospital and Medical College project.

WHO Donates $1.6 million worth of drug to Ethiopia for Influenza A (H1N1) Preparedne...

The World Health Organization (WHO) assists the Ethiopian Federal Democratic Republic Ministry of Health (FMoH) in its emergency preparedness and response to Influenza A H1N1 that is spreading from human to human and was first detected in April 2009 in Mexico. Thus the World Health Organization (WHO) today donated 103,344 doses of Tamiflu Caps that worth USD 1,601, 988.40 (17,862,170 in birr) on Saturday 23 May 2009 as part of the country’s emergency preparedness to the new Influenza A H1N1 virus Upon receiving the drug, Dr.