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Research is the backbone of higher education, and research repositories play a vital role in enhancing the visibility of the research theses and research activities carried out by institutions. Postgraduate students and faculty members face various challenges in accessing research conducted in previous years and are prone to plagiarism and duplication.  Cognizant to this, Dr. […]

SPIRHR together with SPHMMC hosted the 2nd national symposium on RH with a theme: RH care provision in the era of COVID-19, challenges and mitigation strategies. Considering the time, the event was held in a hybrid fashion where most attended it virtually while very few were present in person.  The first day was marked with a […]

The department of OBGYN has been working to prepare a standard management protocol for a selected group of topics. The management protocol is available as an android based mobile application. The mobile app’s purpose is to provide easy, efficient, and up-to-date access to OBGYN clinical management protocol. It achieves this objective by incorporating a simple […]

  A national Reproductive Health Symposium under the theme of “Prospects of family planning and comprehensive abortion care services in Ethiopia”   was successfully conducted on November 1, 2019. The Symposium was organized by St Paul Hospital Millennium Medical College – Centre of Excellence in Reproductive Health project organized with the aim of disseminating research findings […]

UM-CIRHT has worked with SPHMMC in pre-service training in contraception and comprehensive abortion care. Residents from the SPHMMC program are now working in other hospitals in and around Addis Ababa, applying that knowledge to provide better care for the women and girls in the area.  

A comprehensive systematic review training- systematic review and meta-analysis of effectiveness studies- was successfully conducted on April 15-18, 2019 for 24 SPHMMC faculties  from different department –OBGYN & Public Health, Surgery, Internal medicine/nephrology, ICU, microbiology, pharmacology, pathology, research directorate office, pediatrics and child health. The training was provided by certified trainers from Ethiopian Evidence Based Health […]

The Center for International Reproductive Health Training at the University of Michigan (UM-CIRHT), in partnership with the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health,  presented “Family Planning and Comprehensive Abortion Care: Strengthening Preservice Training,” an international scientific conference  held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 4-5 April 2019. UM-CIRHT was thrilled to welcome some 250 participants who heard the keynote […]

During the visit of Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mary of Denmark to Ethiopia in March, she visited the newly-opened St. Paul’s Hospital Michu clinic in the Haya Hulet neighborhood, which combines family planning and fertility/IVF facilities. She praised ongoing developments in the health sector of the country, especially family planning services and works on reducing […]

A benchmark site visits for the SPHMMC COE in reproductive health was successfully conducted in Bangkok, Thailand from June 11-14, 2018 and Nairobi, Kenya on June 20, 2018 at institutions with extensive experience that have existed for over 20 years. A team of 6 consisting 4 OBGYN department members and 2 CIRHT staff visited Mahidol Institute for Population and […]

Quality Improvement is one of the major components of the department to ensure systematic and continues action are integrated for measurable improvement in service delivery and system of care. The OB/GYN faculties have taken the initiative in the development and implementation of QI projects. The OB/GYN department further planned using disciplined and standard approach to ensure […]