Next Ethiopia Visit

20/03/10 - 27/03/10

  • Basic surgical skills course
  • Trauma & fracture workshop
  • Theatre nursing skill course
  • Training of community health workers
  • Donation of 50 bicycles
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Welcome to the link's forums. This allows Ethiopian healthcare professionals to interact with their partners in the UK allowing us to stay connected and to discuss projects between visits. This feature has only been added in late 2008 and please bear with us as more content/topics are added to the forum. We hope that it will be well used. You must be a registered user to be able to post on the forums.

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Midwifery Training The Southern Ethiopia Gwent Health Link is committed to improving maternal mortality by training front-line health professionals in emergency and essential midwifery/obstetric skills. Discuss and share ideas about current and future link projects in this area. 0
E-learning The Southern Ethiopia Gwent Health link has pioneered the use of computers to setup electronic libraries at rural health centres in the SNNPR region. This forum provides support for the health professionals using these e-libraries as well as a place to discuss the future direction of e-learning in this region. 0
Forum Support Learn how to use the forum, create new posts, reply to existing messages. Also, learn how to use the website to contribute articles and to keep updated of all the latest news concerning the link's activities. 2

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Maternal Mortality

Ethiopia has one of the highest maternal as well as infant mortality rates in the world.

Total expenditure per capita on health (Intl $, 2004):

Ethiopia : $21 >>

UK : $2560 >>

Life Expectancy at Birth

Men on average live for only 50 yrs and women for 53 yrs. In UK men and women live for 77yrs and 81yrs respectively.