Creating a Healthier Ethiopia

Creating a Healthier Ethiopia: Nano Gabriel Health Post

Health extension worker Alemitu Merga in Nano Gabriel Health Post, South West Shewa Zone, Oromia Region, Ethiopia. The USAID Deliver project, in partnership with the Ministry of Health and other organizations, improves health outcomes by increasing the availability of health supplies. For more than 30 years, USAID has been a world leader in providing health commodities. Photo credit: Audrée Montpetit.

Creating a Healthier Ethiopia: Bussa Health Center Family Planning

Mamitu Dechase, midewife, family planning expert proposing options to a patient in Bussa Health Center, South West Shewa Zone, Oromia Region, Ethiopia. The USAID Deliver project, in partnership with the Ministry of Health and other organizations, improves health outcomes by increasing the availability of health supplies. For more than 30 years, USAID has been a world leader in providing health commodities. Photo credit: Audrée Montpetit.

Creating a Healthier Ethiopia: Bussa Heath Center Drugstore

Andualam Tessema, pharmacy head in the Bussa Health Center Drugstore, South West Shewa Zone, Oromia Region, Ethiopia. The USAID Deliver project, in partnership with the Ministry of Health and other organizations, improves health outcomes by increasing the availability of health supplies. For more than 30 years, USAID has been a world leader in providing health commodities. Photo credit: Audrée Montpetit.

Creating a Healthier Ethiopia: Shebe Woreda

USAID, in partnership with John Snow, Inc., is increasing access to, and use of, selected maternal, newborn and child health services and supporting routine expanded program on immunization within the priority zones and low performing woredas (districts) through the Last 10 K activity. Photo credit: Adey Abebe.

Creating a Healthier Ethiopia: Dalocha SNNP

Creating a Healthier Ethiopia: Patient Check Up at Akaki Health Center

A TB patient gets a check up at the Akaki Health Center. Working with the KNCV TB Foundation, USAID provided support on a national level to TB treatment expansion and enhancement, TB/HIV collaboration, Multi-Drug Resistant TB treatment and detection, and health system strengthening. Photo credit: KNCV-Ethiopia.

Creating a Healthier Ethiopia: Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems

The pharmacy at Bishoftu Hospital has shown great improvements after the introduction of the Drug and Therapeutic Committee, supported by the USAID-funded Systems for Improved Access to Pharmaceuticals and Services. The Head of the Pharmacy Unit at the hospital says, through the Drug and Therapeutic Committee, the pharmacy ensures patients are provided with the best, most cost-effective care possible by addressing issues such as availability and rational use of medicines. Photo credit: Tsion Issayas, Management Sciences for Health.

Creating a Healthier Ethiopia: Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems

Through capacity building efforts of the USAID-funded Systems for Improved Access to Pharmaceuticals and Services, the pharmacy practice in Ethiopia is shifting from being commodity-centered to patient-centered. This has empowered the pharmacists to be active members of the health care team and contribute to better health outcomes. Photo credit: Warren Zelman.

Creating a Healthier Ethiopia: Capacity Building

USAID’s System for Improved Access to Pharmaceuticals and Services Activity, implemented by Management Sciences for Health, strengthened pharmaceutical management, supported the development of treatment guidelines and health facility standards, and reduced waste and corruption in the pharmaceutical sector. Photo credit: Management Sciences for Health.

Creating a Healthier Ethiopia: Counseling

A pharmacist counsels a patient at a hospital in Amhara Region. The new pharmacy set up that came about as a result of Auditable Pharmaceutical Transactions and Services allows patients to sit face to face with pharmacists and get information on prescribed medication. Photo credit: Warren Zelman.

Creating a Healthier Ethiopia: Rational use of medicines, counseling

Creating a Healthier Ethiopia: Examining a Pregnant Woman

Nurse Shifraw Amene examines a pregnant woman at the Semen Health Center. Photo credit: Ashenafi Gudeta, MCSP/Jhpiego.

Creating a Healthier Ethiopia: Post-Delivery Checkup

Midwife Yodit Meseret does a post-delivery check up with a new mother, Yeshi Getachew, at the Bole Health Center. Photo credit: Ahsenafi Gudeta, MCSP/Jhpiego.

Creating a Healthier Ethiopia: Checking the Weight

Natsaannat, a health extension worker in Wara Village, Ethiopia, counsels Aynamam on how to treat malnutrition in her child, Bitu. Photo credit: Amy Fowler, USAID.

Creating a Healthier Ethiopia: Baby Weighing

Natsaannat, a health extension worker in Wara Village, Ethiopia, counsels Aynamam on how to treat malnutrition in her child, Bitu. Photo credit: Amy Fowler, USAID.

Creating a Healthier Ethiopia: Upper Arm Measurement

Natsaannat, a health extension worker in Wara Village, Ethiopia, counsels Aynamam on how to treat malnutrition in her child, Bitu. Photo credit: Amy Fowler, USAID.

Creating a Healthier Ethiopia: Supplemental Feeding

Natsaannat, a health extension worker in Wara Village, Ethiopia, counsels Aynamam on how to treat malnutrition in her child, Bitu. Photo credit: Amy Fowler, USAID.

Creating a Healthier Ethiopia: Going to Work

Natsaannat, a health extension worker in Ethiopia, provides family planning antenatal, child health, and nutrition services in Wara Village. Photo credit: Amy Fowler, USAID.

Creating a Healthier Ethiopia: Belaynash

Belaynash, a model family trained by the village health extension worker, demonstrates their family tippy tap in Wara Village. Photo credit: Amy Fowler, USAID.

Creating a Healthier Ethiopia: Model Family

Belaynash and her husband Mekonen are a model family in Wara Village. They teach each other families health behaviors and best health practices, including the use of latrines.

Belaynash and her husband Mekonen are a model family in Wara Village. They teach each other families healthy behaviors and best health practices, including the use of latrines. Photo credit: Amy Fowler, USAID.

Creating a Healthier Ethiopia: Female Development Army

Natsaannat, a health extension worker in Wara Village, meets with the female development army for weekly updates on their villages, including number of women pregnant and children vaccinated. Photo credit: Amy Fowler, USAID.

Creating a Healthier Ethiopia: Natsaannat

Natsaannat, a health extension worker in Ethiopia, provides family planning antenatal, child health, and nutrition services in Wara Village. Photo credit: Amy Fowler, USAID.

Creating a Healthier Ethiopia: Wara Village Health Post

Natsaannat, a health extension worker in Ethiopia, provides family planning antenatal, child health, and nutrition services in Wara Village. Photo credit: Amy Fowler, USAID.

Creating a Healthier Ethiopia: Wara Village Health Post

Natsaannat, a health extension worker in Ethiopia, provides family planning antenatal, child health, and nutrition services in Wara Village. Photo credit: Amy Fowler, USAID.

Creating a Healthier Ethiopia: Pregnancy Counseling

Natsaannat, a health extension worker in Ethiopia, provides to Tsedalu advice about her pregnancy in Wara Village. Photo credit: Amy Fowler, USAID.

Creating a Healthier Ethiopia: Injectable Contraceptive

Natsaannat, a health extension worker in Ethiopia, gives an injectable contraceptive to Itenish in Wara Village. Photo credit: Amy Fowler, USAID.

Creating a Healthier Ethiopia: Record Management

Natsaannat, a health extension worker in Wara Village, Ethiopia, demonstrates the community record management system, which tracks pregnancies and other health issues. Photo credit: Amy Fowler, USAID.

Creating a Healthier Ethiopia: Arm Measurement

Natsaannat, a health extension worker in Wara Village, Ethiopia, examines Tamrat because his mother, Mebrat, is concerned he may have TB. Diagnosis: Cold. Photo credit: Amy Fowler, USAID.

Creating a Healthier Ethiopia: Mebrat with her son Tamrat

Concerned that her son Tamrat may have TB, Mebrat took him to be examined by Natsaannat, a health extension worker in Wara Village, Ethiopia. Diagnosis: Cold. Photo credit: Amy Fowler, USAID.

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