In Tigray, Ethiopia, Tsadekan, who is seven months pregnant with her fifth child, is at the Hawelti Health Center for what should be her third antenatal care (ANC) visit after skipping her second appointment. “I didn’t know that I needed to come back. I thought I only come back [to the health center] if I felt unwell,” says Tsadekan. She was not alone in her assumption. In fact, mothers missing ANC visits was recently a top problem for the Hawelti Health Center. Read more…
A Story of Transformation: Revitalizing the Health Information System in Shebedino District, Ethiopia
Tesfaye Beyene, Shebedino District Health Office head. Photo: Benti Ejeta/JSI From 2019 to 2024, Shebedino was one of the three districts that JSI’s Ethiopia Data Use Partnership (DUP), in collaboration with Hawassa University and the Sidama Regional Health Bureau...
