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በእንግሊዝ ነዋሪ የሆኑ የኦጋዴን ማህበረሰብ ለሲዳማ ህዝብ ያላቸውን ኣጋሪነት ኣሳዩ የሎቄን ሰማዕታት በኣንድነት ኣሰቡ Ogaden Community UK Solidarity with Sidama People “Looqe Massacre”

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Ogaden Community UK Solidarity with Sidama People “Looqe Massacre” Today we are here to mark the anniversary of Looqe Massacre in which many brothers and sisters have been perished in Hawasa, the capital city of Sidama. This is a very sad story, today I’m sure that we all have a lot in common, because in Ogaden every day a bloody murderer’s kill innocent people, which are peaceful people like our Sidama brothers and sisters. Every day exactly identical and similar evil actions, done by the brutal Addis-Ababa regime, happen to Orormo People, Afar People, Gambella People and all other victims under this regime. We are all suffering from Looqe massacre; we are all victims of the genocide in Ogaden, Oromiya and many other regions in the country. Ladies and gentlemen I would like to thank the Sidama Community for hosting this event. It is really momentous, significant and very important that we hold events like this for the commemoration of our fallen brothers and sisters. Hence, o

INFANT MORTALITY IN THE RURAL SIDAMA ZONE, SOUTHERN ETHIOPIA: EXAMINING THE CONTRIBUTION OF KEY PREGNANCY AND POSTNATAL HEALTH CARE SERVICES

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Abstract Objectives: This study is aimed at examining the contribution of selected pregnancy and postnatal health care services to Infant Mortality (IM) in Southern Ethiopia. Method: Data were collected from 10 rural villages of the Sidama Zone, Southern Ethiopia, using a structured interview schedule. The 1,094 eligible women respondents were selected using a combination of simple random and multi-stage sampling techniques. The main outcome variable of the study (IM) was measured by reported infant deaths during the twelve months preceding the survey, and was estimated at 9.6% or 96 infant deaths per 1,000 births. Pregnancy and health care variables were used as the main explanatory variables along with other household and individual characteristics. Results: The predicted probabilities, using three models of logistic regression analysis, have shown that four pregnancy and postnatal health care variables (antenatal care, immunisation, exclusive breast feeding and wan

The influence of husbands' approval on women's use of prenatal care: Results from Yirgalem and Jimma towns, south west Ethiopia

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BT Biratu, DP Lindstrom Abstract Background : The utilization of formal prenatal care services in Ethiopia could generally be described as low by international standards. While this is attributed to the lack of access to formal maternal health-care service, which is an important barrier to prenatal care, other important socio-cultural barriers to service utilization also exist. Objective : The aim of this study is to identify the relative influence of the attitudes and background characteristics of husbands and wives on prenatal care utilization, and in particular to identify the role of a husband's approval on prenatal care. Methods : Data were collected from 1,750 women in a community-based survey of maternal health conducted in Yirgalem town and its surrounding rural areas, as well as in Jimma Town in 1997. Multivariate regression models were used to identify: (1) the relationship between the determinants of whether a woman wanted a pregnancy and whether a husband appro

Household fuel use and acute respiratory infections among younger children: an exposure assessment in Shebedino Wereda, Southern Ethiopia

SUMMARY Background: the health impacts of exposure to indoor air pollution have yet to become a central focus of research, development aid and policy-making. Objective: To investigate the effect of household fuel use on acute respiratory infection in younger children at Shebedino Wereda. Study method: The study design was cross-sectional, which employed an exposure assessment approach, collecting detailed primary data on several household-level exposure indicators (fuel type, stove type, kitchen type, housing type, ventilation, etc.) through the administration of a questionnaire in 405 households. Data were collected during January to February 2006. Result: The response rate for the sampled households was 100%. ARI prevalence of the study area (21%) was found to be lower as compared to the national figure in 2000 (24%). The study approach appears to demonstrate a relatively consistent association between child handling practice while cooking and childhood ARI. Conclusion:

The Sidama Nation acrossthe Globe Mark 11th Year Anniversary of Looqqe Massacre

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The Sidama Nation acrossthe Globe Mark 11th Year Anniversary of Looqqe Massacre Sidama Community United Kingdom, May 25, 2013 London On a very bright morning in Sidama land, on May 24, 2002, between 10:30 and 11:00am local time; the Sidama people of all walks of life staged on a peaceful and non-violent Demonstration after fully exhausting the constitutional requirements that is needed to undertake such an activity. Carrying the leaves of trees and Ethiopian flags, the demonstrators peacefully started to march towards their capital city, Hawassa which islocated at the distance of about 3 km from where they have been planning to hold the said peaceful demonstration when they were encountered with deliberately targeted barbaric acts after they have nearly travelled about a kilometre from the point they were gathering. The objectives of the demonstration was in protest of the government’s decision to remove the administrative right of their capital (Hawassa)- from Sidama t