Browsing by Author "Alemayehu Yosef"

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    Assessment of Knowledge, Utilization and Associated Factors on Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV/AIDS among Antenatal Care users at Selected Public Hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
    (Addis Ababa University, 2018-06) Alemayehu Yosef; Makonnen Bazie
    Background: Mother-To-Child Transmission (MTCT) of Human Immunodeficiency VirusHIV is the transmission of HIV from an HIV positive woman to her baby duringpregnancy, labor, delivery and by breastfeeding. Prevention of Mother-to-ChildTransmission (PMTCT) of HIV has become an important area of intervention on HIV/AIDSprevention activities. According to 2011 Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey 21%the infants were infected. A fifth or fewer of the women and children that need PMTCTservices to prevent new infections in children receive them. Objective: To assess theKnowledge, Utilization and Associated factors about PMTCT of HIV/AIDS among pregnantwomen who attend ANC at selected public Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Method: Aninstitution based cross sectional study consisting of 409 study participants was conducted among pregnant women who attended ANC service at selected public hospitals in AddisAbaba. The sample size was distributed for each hospital proportionally and studyparticipants were selected by convenience sampling method. An interviewer administeredquestioner was used to collect data. The data was entered and cleaned using Epi Info version7 then analyzed using SPSS version 21 statistical package. Ethical approval and Confidentiality were addressed accordingly. Result: A total number of 409 (96.9% responserate) pregnant women were interviewed. From thus 82.4% (n=337) were knowledgeable and70.9% (n=290) utilized PMTCT service. After controlling for confounders using multiplelogistic regression Age 26-37 years, Cost of transportation 10 birr and below andGestational age second trimester and third trimester were associated with knowledge ofPMTCT while Age 26-37 years, Number of pregnancy which is multigravida and Partnerswho are tested with their spouse were found to increase pregnant women utilizing PMTCTservice. Conclusion: there was a relatively decreased level of knowledge and utilizationamong pregnant women. This calls for a strong and continued effort from the public andrelevant other stake holders to increase mothers’ knowledge and utilization of PMTCTservice through education, increasing service accessibility, encouraging couples testing forHIV during antenatal care and other women empowerment activities.
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    Metal Complexes of a New-N-Hetrocyclic Ligand - Structural Studies
    (Addis Ababa Universty, 2006-07) Alemayehu Yosef; Raju V.J.T. (Professor)
    Complexes of Cu(II) and Ni(II) have been synthesized using template method by the condensation of orthophenylenediamine with quinoxaline-2,3-dione in ethanolic medium in the presence of metal ion All the complexes were characterized on the basis of their molar conductance, magnetic susceptibility, IR and UV-Vis, and based on this the Cu-L complex found as square planar and Ni-L complex was octahedral.