Perception of Post-partum Women Towards Birth Companions at a Tertiary Hospital and Its Catchment Health Centers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Gizachew, Kidist; Bekele, Delayehu; Getinet, Tewodros

doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-137296/v1

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“…According to HRCO report, nine adult civilian residents of West Hararghe Zone vanished following attacks by Somali region's special police force. The special force kidnapped individuals from their homes and surrounding roads and there were abused detainees and torture to hurt minority [31]. Thus, regional security forces particularly Special Forces in most regional states are blamed for their unconstitutional acts on civilian minorities of respective regional states.…”

Section: Non-territorial/dispersed Minority Vs Regional States Securi...mentioning

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Ethnic Federalism and Dispersed Minority in Ethiopia in the Post 1991: Constitution and Institutional Status Quo to Protect Dispersed Minorities

Gudina,

Mitiku,

Adaye

2023

JESBS

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Following the adoption of ethnic based political arrangement, Ethiopia ratified new constitution in 1995. Inter-ethnic clashes, internal displacement, and ethnic tensions have become protracted security challenges of Ethiopia. Particularly, dispersed minorities are principal victims of these challenges. Furthermore, dispersed minorities are invisible in the political process and power sharing specially in regional states. Accordingly, this article delved in to the impacts of national and sub-national constitutions and institutional set up on dispersed minority rights and security. Based on this objective, qualitative method was employed and both primary and secondary data sources were used from multiple sectors and multi-levels including victims (internally displaced persons (IDPs1) in Burayu). Accordingly, the results of the study supposed that national constitution, sub-national constitutions that designed pursue the national constitution are not safeguarding the minority but galvanizing sources of ethnic conflicts and intolerance provided that other factors like ethno-linguistic regional autonomy and its poor implementations, including regional special forces are still contributing for protracted ethnic conflicts and social instability that usually result in minority insecurity and conflict induced internal displacements. Unless Ethiopia amends both federal and regional states constitutions and dissolve Special Forces of regional states, maintaining peace and security, assuring human rights, sustaining horizontal integration among regional states, raising accountability of regional governors and assuring equality and justice of citizens will become a long-drawn-out challenges for national government.

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Section: Non-territorial/dispersed Minority Vs Regional States Securi...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Ethnic Federalism and Dispersed Minority in Ethiopia in the Post 1991: Constitution and Institutional Status Quo to Protect Dispersed Minorities

Gudina,

Mitiku,

Adaye

2023

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A clustered randomized control trial to assess feasibility, acceptability, and impact of implementing the birth companion intervention package in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Nigeria: study protocol

Berhanu,

Bekele,

Melesse

et al. 2023

BMC Health Serv Res

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Background A birth companion is a simple and low-cost intervention that can improve both maternal and newborn health outcomes. The evidence that birth companionship improves labor outcomes and experiences of care has been available for many years. Global and national policies exist in support of birth companions. Many countries including Ethiopia, Kenya, and Nigeria have not yet incorporated birth companions into routine practice in health facilities. This paper presents the protocol for a trial that aims to assess if a package of interventions that addresses known barriers can increase the coverage of birth companions. Methods This two parallel arm cluster randomized controlled trial will evaluate the impact of a targeted intervention package on scale-up of birth companionship at public sector health facilities in Ethiopia (five study sites encompassing 12 facilities), Kenya (two sites encompassing 12 facilities in Murang’a and 12 facilities in Machakos counties), and Nigeria (two sites encompassing 12 facilities in Kano and 12 facilities in Nasarawa states). Baseline and endline assessments at each site will include 744 women who have recently given birth in the quantitative component. We will interview a maximum of 16 birth companions, 48 health care providers, and eight unit managers quarterly for the qualitative component in each country. Discussion Ample evidence supports the contribution of birth companions to positive health outcomes for mothers and newborns. However, limited data are available on effective strategies to improve birth companion coverage and inform scale-up efforts. This trial tests a birth companion intervention package in diverse clinical settings and cultures to identify possible barriers and considerations to increasing uptake of birth companions. Findings from this study may provide valuable evidence for scaling up birth companionship in similar settings. Trial registration Trial is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov with identifier: NCT05565196, first posted 04/10/ 2022.

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Perception of Post-partum Women Towards Birth Companions at a Tertiary Hospital and Its Catchment Health Centers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Cited by 2 publications

References 6 publications

Ethnic Federalism and Dispersed Minority in Ethiopia in the Post 1991: Constitution and Institutional Status Quo to Protect Dispersed Minorities

Ethnic Federalism and Dispersed Minority in Ethiopia in the Post 1991: Constitution and Institutional Status Quo to Protect Dispersed Minorities

A clustered randomized control trial to assess feasibility, acceptability, and impact of implementing the birth companion intervention package in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Nigeria: study protocol

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