All pre-primary and primary schools and the majority of secondary schools in Ethiopia do not have school-based health services. IFA launched a new initiative of setting up school clinics that is in line with the National School health and Nutrition Strategy. The school clinics are run in collaboration with the health bureau. IFA proposes to…
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Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) is the collective term for various interrelated public health issues. Since 2015, IFA has implemented a School Menstrual Hygiene and Management Project (SMHMP) and provided safe water and improved sanitary facilities in the schools within which they are working. Girls in Ethiopia face many challenges, one being menstruation management due…
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The School Eye Health component of the school health and nutrition program was launched in 2015 to meet the challenges school children with poor vision face. Low vision care services affect schoolchildren unproportionally as 80% of learning is visual, and students who cannot afford to purchase eyeglasses often do poorly in school and struggle with…
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Under-nutrition leading to poor learning capacity is a major public health problem among primary school children in Ethiopia. The main conditions that have a negative impact on the health and education of children are related to poor nutrition and sanitation. Inadequate food, poor diet, infections, lack of safe water and poor sanitary facilities, especially affecting…
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