Better blood pressure monitors will help Ethiopia save lives
We donated over 100 validated digital monitors to support Ethiopia’s national strategy to combat heart disease.
Enhanced situational awareness: taking action to stop outbreaks before they begin in Ethiopia
Resolve to Save Lives partnered with the Ethiopian Public Health Institute and local community leaders to prevent a surge in cholera cases during a popular religious holiday.
Connect, detect, protect, treat: learnings from implementing Epidemic-Ready Primary Health Care
Resolve to Save Lives is partnering with primary health facilities to make sure they’re ready to stop the next epidemic.
Ethiopia’s first national infection prevention and control budget
Our team recently supported the passage of Ethiopia’s first national infection prevention and control budget in partnership with the nation’s Ministries of Health and Finance. This strategic investment by national decisionmakers will strengthen Ethiopia’s capacity to respond to future public health threats—and represents a milestone for global health security efforts. Read how the budget was […]
How Ethiopia established its first ever national infection prevention and control budget
The nation’s recent success represents a milestone for global health security efforts.
Celebrating World Health Worker Week
Amanda McClelland, our Senior Vice President of Prevent Epidemics, published a blog post for World Health Worker Week exploring how Resolve to Save Lives partnered with Ethiopia to create the nation’s first domestic infection prevention and control (IPC) budget. This landmark achievement is a much-needed step toward making sure every frontline health worker is kept […]
Launching our new Epidemic-Ready Primary Health Care program
We launched our new Epidemic-Ready Primary Health Care program in Ethiopia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Uganda to make sure their primary health facilities can detect outbreaks promptly and safely deliver essential services.
Sharing lessons from dedicated preparedness teams
The Prevent Epidemics team held the first-ever gathering of its dedicated preparedness teams, also known as acceleration teams, in Nairobi, Kenya. Teams from DRC, Ethiopia, Liberia and Uganda gathered with RTSL staff from the global and Nigeria offices to share their successes and challenges in making epidemic preparedness a priority in their countries.
Improving the sightline on cardiovascular disease in Ethiopia
With support from Resolve to Save lives, this first-of-its-kind program helps track heart disease on the African continent.
Health security bulletin helps coordinate epidemic preparedness in Ethiopia
Dedicated preparedness team uses regular communication to support multi-sectoral collaboration.
Health security bulletin helps coordinate epidemic preparedness in Ethiopia
Supported by Resolve to Save Lives, Ethiopia’s dedicated preparedness team created a quarterly bulletin covering national health security news. The bulletin, which delves into topics such as One Health and progress made on the country’s National Action Plan for Health Security (NAPHS), improves information-sharing between the different departments involved in epidemic preparedness. It also improves […]
Celebrating advances in blood pressure control in Ethiopia
Our Ethiopia team marked World Hypertension Day with an event at Maychew Health Center in Addis Ababa featuring representatives from the Ministry of Health, the Addis Ababa Health Bureau and the Cardiac and Heart Association. A patient from the Ethiopia Hypertension Control Initiative also spoke about the experience of receiving hypertension care. Participants highlighted the […]
Implementation of the 7-1-7 target for detection, notification, and response to public health threats in five countries: a retrospective, observational study
The 7-1-7 target supports timely detection, notification, and response to outbreaks. Writing in the Lancet Global Health, experts from Resolve to Save Lives assessed 41 public health events in Brazil, Ethiopia, Liberia, Nigeria, and Uganda between 2018 and 2022 to understand the frequency at which targets for detection (7 days), notification (1 day) and respones […]
Protecting, safeguarding and investing in the health and care workforce
The World Health Assembly passed a resolution, Protecting, safeguarding and investing in the health and care workforce , calling for countries to improve data collection in tracking health and care workers’ morbidity and mortality. Ethiopia led advocacy efforts, which we supported in our January report, Protecting Health Care Workers: A Need for Urgent Action .
Mass media campaign on salt reduction launched in Ethiopia
A new mass media campaign targeting high salt consumption and promoting healthy diets launched in Ethiopia, and will be shown on television, heard on radio and seen on social media for the next month. This is the first evidence-based behavior change campaign that Resolve to Save Lives has supported in Ethiopia to reduce high intake […]
Ethiopia Launches Hypertension Program
Ethiopia’s Federal Ministry of Health announced a new program that will bring treatment for high blood pressure to approximately 3 million people.
Training of Trainers in Ethiopia
With support from WHO and the Federal Ministry of Health, our Ethiopia team led a training of trainers on hypertension prevention and control in Addis Ababa
Ethiopia launches salt reduction program
We joined experts from WHO and the Ethiopian government for a workshop to kick off Ethiopia’s salt reduction program.