Countdown to 2015: Comparing progress towards the achievement of the health Millennium Development Goals in Ethiopia and other sub-Saharan African countries

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 336-342

  Accorsi, Sandro ^a   Bilal, Nejmudin Kedir ^b   Farese, Pasquale ^a   Racalbuto, Vincenzo ^c  

^a Italian Cooperation   (Ethiopia)

^b FEDERAL MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Ethiopia)

^c Direzione Generale per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo   (Italy)

Author keywords

Communicable diseases; Disease burden; Ethiopia; Millennium Development Goals; Non communicable diseases; Sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; ARTEMISININ;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICA; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ETHIOPIA; GOAL ATTAINMENT; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LIVE BIRTH; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MASS IMMUNIZATION; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SUB SAHARAN AFRICA; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; GOALS; GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA; MALE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PREVALENCE;

EID: 77952952176     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2009.12.009     Document Type: Article

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