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Gully afforestation as a historical land management choice : regional insights from SW Ethiopia using 1938-57 aerial photographs
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Uptake and barriers of voluntary counseling and testing among antenatal care attendants, southwest Ethiopia
BACKGROUND . Voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) service provides an essential knowledge, skill and helps pregnant women to access intervention such as short course antiretroviral and infant feeding options. Therefore, the potential barriers to the service need to be assessed.
OBJECTIVE: This study is intended to examine the uptake of VCT and its barrier among Antenatal care (ANC) attendants in southwest Ethiopia.
METHODS- Health institution based cross-sectional study was conducted from Sept. 1. 2004 to Nov. 1, 2004 a mong ANC attendants in southwest Ethiopia. A total of 285 pregnant women were selected conveniently. Additionally, five experienced counselors were involved in the study. Both qualitative and quantitative interviews methods were utilized using structured questionnaires.
RESULT-Out of a total of 285 pregnant women who participated in the study, 77(27% had decepted VCT. The acceptance rate was higher among 16-20 years old women (p<0.05) and those from urban résidences (p<0.025). Women who are single, divorced or widowed were also found to have more acceptance of VCT than married women (P<0.001). Among tested women 61(79.2%) received test result. Qualitative analysis showed that I ack of decision-making a utonomy and fear of partner's reactions were identified as major barriers. The reason for low return for test result was the women do not want to know their HIV status; but gave their blood to avoid offending the counselors.
CONCLUSION - This study revealed that the uptake of VCT service is very low. Therefore, to increase the utilization of VCT service at ANC setting, problems associated with the service should be addressed. This includes quality of counseling, provision of test result on same day and addressing individual concerns
Quantifying source-specific sediment fluxes in rehabilitating catchments in the Lake Tana Basin of northwest Ethiopia
Quantifying and understanding land degradation process in relationship to landscape connectivity in the Lake Tana basin
Understanding the interrelation between landscape structure on church forests’ resilience, bird ecology and agricultural production in the Eastern Lake Tana basin
Quantification of floodplain sediment storage for an upland river catchment in the Lake Tana Basin, Ethiopia
Practices of Breast Self-Examination and Associated Factors among Female Debre Berhan University Students
Background. Breast cancer is the most prevalent form of cancer in Ethiopia of all female cancers. It is considered to be a progressive disease with a poor prognosis if detected late. Breast self-examination is an important prevention method of breast cancer. This study was aimed at assessing practice and associated factors of breast self-examination (BSE) among female Debre Berhan University students in Ethiopia. Methods. A cross-sectional study was conducted in 2015 among 420 using self-administrated questionnaire. Multistage sampling technique was used to select the study participants. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis were done. Results. Majority of the study participants, 338 (84.5%), were between 20 and 24 years old with the mean age of 21.1 ± 1.65. Only 14 (3.5%) had family history of breast cancer. Two hundred fifty-six (64%) of the participants had heard about BSE and 30.25% had good knowledge about BSE. Mass media were the most common source of information about breast cancer. Few of the participants (28.3%) had performed BSE. Lack of knowledge on how to perform BSE was cited as the main reason for not practicing BSE. Knowing how to perform, when to perform, and position to perform BSE and having a perception that BSE is important and useful to detect breast cancer were significant predictors of practices of BSE. Conclusions. This study revealed that most of the participants had low knowledge and practice of BSE. Therefore, it important to develop health educational programs in the university to raise awareness about BSE and breast cancer so as to practice self-breast examination