Fortune - Cielo 133, a Spanish NGO active in adoption, is to construct a mother and child referral hospital in Addis Abeba at a cost of 15 million euro as a turn-key project and hand it over to the Ministry of Health.

Ethiopia on Wednesday launched $7 million joint programme on child, food security and nutrition with the support of the Spanish government.

Safer Life Campaign’09, a month-long national event organized in connection with the World AIDS Day, would be launched on December 1, 2009, organizers said.

The University of Wisconsin and Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia publicly launched their twinning project Wednesday, partnering to cooperatively confront the emergency medical services crisis in Ethiopia.

The Ministry of Health said it is endeavoring to eliminate avoidable blindness from the country by the year 2020.

The prevention and control of high blood pressure or other cardiovascular diseases has not received due attention in many developing countries. This study aims to describe the epidemiology of high blood pressure among adults in Addis Ababa, so as to inform policy and lay the ground for surveillance interventions.

To meet ambitious goals in improving maternal and child health and reducing AIDS deaths by 2015, Africa needs an additional 800,000 health care workers, a new study has concluded.

A corner stone was laid off to construct an eye care centre here at the premises of Zewditu Memirial Hospital in Addis Ababa yesterday. The centre would be funded by an Indian Sugar Factory company, Overseas Infrastructure Alliance Infrastructure Developers PLC (OIA).

AFP - Former world heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield's exhibition match in Ethiopia has been postponed for September, his opponent Sammy Retta told AFP on Monday.

AFP - Africa has had "extraordinary success" in the fight against HIV-AIDS, but the access to universal care expected by 2010 will be delayed due to a lack of funds, according to the director of the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria.