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The introduction of ART presents an enormous opportunity in terms of reducing morbidity and mortality due to AIDS worldwide. Ethiopia has been engaged in the scale up of ART access to its people since 2005. The free ART program was launched in July 2005. Despite the many challenges, ART scale up has recorded the greatest achievement over the last few years. The service has been expanded from only three health facilities in 2005 to 400 in 2008. The number of people ever started on ART has also shown an unprecedented increase during the same period from 900 in 2005 to 180,447 by end of December 2008. Full text of the Publication |
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Stand in Unison to Fight the Pandemic! A consultative workshop with the religious leaders aimed at scaling-up community conversation program among their followers was conducted in Adama, at Dire International Hotel, from January 14-16, 2010.
The representatives of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church Patriarch, the President of the Supreme Council of the Ethiopian Islamic Affairs, the President of Mekane Yesus Evangelical Church, Secretary General of the Ethiopian Kale Hiwot Church and the representative of the Union of Ethiopian Evangelical Churches attended the last day of the workshop. |
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World AIDS day was colorfully celebrated in Hawassa, capital of Southern nations, nationalities and people regional states(SNNPR)at national level on December 1st 2009,”under the theme universal access and Humane Rights”
Present on the occasion were H.E Girma WoldeGeorgis, president of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. H.E First Lady Hazeb Mesfin, H.E Ato Shiferaw Shigute head of SNNPR, ministries, representatives of International organizations and donor agencies.
President Girma Woldgiorgies in his speech emphasized the commitment of the government of Ethiopia in fighting against the pandemic. He further called up on all stakeholders and partners to scale up their efforts with the bid to meet universal Access in the year 2010, with special emphasis on most at risk populations (MARPs) and prevention from mother to child transmission (PMTCT) and reiterated his support their effort in Mitigating the impact. |
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