Ethiopia

This curriculum is designed to help as a guide for the training of both generic and post basic health officers.

The Curriculum for Master of Science Course in Integrated Emergency Surgery (Obstetrics, Gynecology and General Surgery) was developed to produce emergency surgical health officers in Ethiopia capable of handling common emergency obstetrical-gynecological and emergency general surgical procedures including trauma at an accessible locality. [author’s description]

This report details the impact of Pathfinder Interational’s community-based approach to reproductive health and family planning in Ethiopia.

Thousands of community workers are helping Ethiopia to deliver primary health-care services to people living in rural areas. However, critics say that the training these workers receive is not adequate for them to attend many of the health problems they encounter. [from introduction]

Geographical imbalances in the health workforce have been a consistent feature of nearly all health systems, especially in developing countries. The authors investigate the willingness to work in a rural area among final year nursing and medical students in Ethiopia. Analyzing data obtained from contingent valuation questions, they find that household consumption and the student’s motivation to help the poor, which is their proxy for intrinsic motivation, are the main determinants of willingness to work in a rural area. The authors investigate who are willing to help the poor and find that women are significantly more likely to help than men.

This document describes the number and professional categories of health professionals currently working in the public sector; projection of health human resource demand for the next three years with the estimated staff attrition, and finally, the level of construction and expansions of training institutions and financial inputs required to achieve the projected human resource demand. [from introduction]

Ethiopia is currently one of the countries most seriously affected by HIV/AIDS, with the sixth highest number of infections in the world. This paper discusses how to combat this epidemic. As the country scales up HIV/AIDS services, increased attention is focused on identifying constraints to program expansion. One of the most important constraints is that of human resources. [from publisher’s abstract]

This brief discusses the Capacity Project’s work to train health workers to help prevent mother to child transmission of HIV.

This presentation is from PSP-One’s GHC Expert Panel— Expanding Health Service Access, Quality, and Equity in Developing Countries: The Role of the Private Sector. It presents franchise models for delivering family planning and reproductive health services by the private sector. The presentation slides, video of the seminar, and transcript of the resulting discussion are available.

In the space of just a few years, close to 300,000 people with HIV have been put onto ART in Ethiopia and Malawi

The Health Service Extension Programme (HSEP) is an innovative approach to addressing the shortfall in health human resources in Ethiopia. It has developed a new cadre of Health Extension Workers (HEWs), who are charged with providing the health and hygiene promotion and some treatment services, which together constitute the bedrock of Ethiopia’s community health system. This study seeks to explore the experience of the HSEP from the perspective of the community who received the service. [from abstract]

To maximize program impact with current resources, integration of Family Planning into existing HIV/AIDS programs is a very cost effective and an excellent point of entry. This is a study of an intervention program focused on initiating and also strengthening existing integration of FP into functional VCT, ART and PMTCT sites. The intervention encompassed an orientation on integration benefits to heads of health facilities; identification of challenges of integration and drawing of plan of action on how to overcome the challenges and improve integration. Major challenges identified were related both to health workers, such as high workload, staff burnout and turnover, as well as to efforts in scaling up of facilities operations to adequately incorporate integration activities. [from abstract]

Following health sector reform, Ethiopia started training new categories of health workers. This study addresses students’ perspectives regarding their training and career plans. This study suggests that the current training programs have serious inadequacies that need to be addressed. [from abstract]

The primary aims of this study were to consider perceived types and causes of stigmatization, and develop recommendations for intervention and advocacy activities that address HIV/AIDS stigmatization and discrimination in health care settings. [author’s description]

The Private Sector Partnerships-One (PSP-One) project fielded an assessment team to document the state of operations for the Biruh Tesfa network, identify strategies to improve network sustainability, and determine local organizations that could have a role in network management and support. In addition the team was asked to explore opportunities to integrate HIV services into the Biruh Tesfa network. [from abstract]

This presentation was part of the ECSA Workforce Observatory Meeting in Arusha. It discusses the activities being done in Ethiopia to develop its HRH Observatory to: establish a comprehensive and reliable HRH database improving the existing HIS; regularly define and update HRH status, needs and gaps of the whole health system (public, private, NGOs); and advocate for Technical Assistance for HRH for effective health service delivery. [adapted from author]


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This presentation was given at the First Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala. It covers the imbalance in physician deployment in Ethiopia and the lottery system for ensuring coverage in rural areas.

No satisfactory strategy for reducing high child mortality from malaria has yet been established in tropical Africa. The authors compared the effect on under-5 mortality of teaching mothers to promptly provide antimalarials to their sick children at home, with the present community health worker approach. The study concludes that a major reduction in under-5 mortality can be achieved in holoendemic malaria areas through training local mother coordinators to teach mothers to give under-5 children antimalarial drugs. [adapted from abstract]

This paper examines recent experiences in Zambia, and Ethiopia that illustrate why policy matters for developing the private health sector and underscoring the need for rational regulatory policies and practices. [author’s description]