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Better blood pressure monitors will help Ethiopia save lives

February 13, 2025
We donated over 100 validated digital monitors to support Ethiopia's national strategy to combat heart disease.…

Ethiopia adopts proclamation to improve delivery of health services

January 31, 2025
The Proclamation aims to improve the management and delivery of health services across Ethiopia.…
Distribution of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) supplies at a holy water pilgrimage site in Amhara, Ethiopia. Image credit: Hanna Mekonnen, Ethiopian Public Health Institute.

Enhanced situational awareness: taking action to stop outbreaks before they begin in Ethiopia

October 16, 2024
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.…
Health care workers attending an ERPHC continued medical education session in Uganda. Credit: Resolve to Save Lives

Connect, detect, protect, treat: learnings from implementing Epidemic-Ready Primary Health Care

September 30, 2024
Resolve to Save Lives is partnering with primary health facilities to make sure they’re ready to stop the next epidemic.…
Graphic of Ethopian health care worker

How Ethiopia established its first ever national infection prevention and control budget

July 15, 2024
The nation's recent success represents a milestone for global health security efforts.…
A health care worker stands in front of a clinic in Ethiopia

Celebrating World Health Worker Week

April 4, 2024
Amanda McClelland tells the story of how Resolve to Save Lives partnered with Ethiopia to create the nation's first domestic IPC budget, a much-needed step for health worker safety.…

Sharing lessons from dedicated preparedness teams

January 31, 2023

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…

Improving the sightline on cardiovascular disease in Ethiopia

December 15, 2022
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

December 7, 2022
Dedicated preparedness team uses regular communication to support multi-sectoral collaboration.…

Celebrating advances in blood pressure control in Ethiopia

May 17, 2022

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…

Protecting, safeguarding and investing in the health and care workforce

May 28, 2021

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…

Mass media campaign on salt reduction launched in Ethiopia

February 18, 2021

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…

Ethiopia Launches Hypertension Program

July 31, 2019

Ethiopia’s Federal Ministry of Health announced a new program that will bring treatment for high blood pressure to approximately 3 million people.

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Training of Trainers in Ethiopia

July 2, 2019

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

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Ethiopia launches salt reduction program

November 29, 2018

We joined experts from WHO and the Ethiopian government for a workshop to kick off Ethiopia’s salt reduction program.

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