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Nurse Shifraw Amene examines a pregnant woman at the Semen Health Center.
December 20, 2016

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and its partner Jhpiego marked the successful completion of the Strengthening Basic Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care Project of the global Maternal and Child Survival Program. With the aim of contributing to the ultimate goal of ending preventable child and maternal deaths within a generation the program supported 44 health centers with maternal and newborn health interventions and 24 health facilities in strengthening postpartum family planning services in Oromia, Amhara, the SNNP and Tigray regions. Results of the program include that 19,250 pregnant women received care prior to giving birth; 23,000 mothers successfully delivered at health facilities; 279 newborns who couldn’t breathe when born were saved through successful resuscitation; and 14,000 women received family planning counseling after giving birth.

When she became very ill, this woman’s husband left her. Testing confirmed that she is HIV positive and she started antiretrovir
November 29, 2016

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and its partner World Vision International today marked the successful completion of the Preventive Care Package activity. The activity provided services in more than 300 health facilities throughout Ethiopia to help mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS. More importantly, the activity improved the quality of life of nearly 400,000 people living with HIV and their families by providing a preventive care package and information on nutrition and treatment. During the last five years, the activity worked in Amhara, Oromia, SNNP, Tigray, Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa.

Two girls in a second grade class at the Soyama Primary School practice reading with one of the new supplementary books.
October 26, 2016

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), today joined the Ministry of Education in rolling out a comprehensive community outreach model designed to improve learning outcomes of children in grades one through eight. USAID’s READ Community Outreach activity will reach students in nearly 2,500 schools in the Amhara, Oromia, SNNP, Somali and Tigray regions.

Chargé d'Affaires Peter Vrooman and hospital staff talk with a patient.
October 24, 2016

U.S. Embassy Chargé d'Affaires Peter Vrooman visited the Cure hospital on 12 October 2016 to learn about their work to train pediatric orthopedic surgeons and provide modern medical and surgical care to physically disabled children

A worker lifts a pallet onto the vertical racking system in a Pharmaceutical Fund and Supply Agency warehouse in Kality.
September 29, 2016

The U.S. Government, through the U.S Agency for International Development (USAID), today announced the closeout of its ten-year, $283 million Supply Chain Management System project. Through the project, USAID strengthened health supply chain management to build the capacity of the Ministry of Health to better provide life-saving HIV commodities such as laboratory supplies, pharmaceuticals, food-by-prescription products (therapeutic food for malnourished people living with HIV), infection prevention materials, and other supplies.

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