This article, published in the Journal of Global Oncology, utilizes primary data from the Addis Ababa population-based cancer registry, as well as supplementary cancer data from six Ethiopian regions to estimate the incidence rates of the most common forms of cancer diagnosed in Ethiopia. The study finds that cancer, most prominently breast cancer, poses a substantial public health threat in Ethiopia. The fight against cancer calls for the expansion of population-based registry sites to improve quantifying cancer burden in Ethiopia and requires both increased investment and application of existing cancer control knowledge across all segments of the Ethiopian population.
This article, published in the Lancet Global Health, aims to evaluate the health and financial risk protection benefits of selected interventions that could be publicly financed by the government of Ethiopia. The authors used an extended cost-effectiveness analysis (ECEA) to assess the health gains (deaths averted) and financial risk protection afforded (cases of poverty averted) by a bundle of nine interventions that the Government of Ethiopia aims to make universally available. This approach incorporates financial risk protection into the economic evaluation of health interventions and therefore provides information about the efficiency of attainment of both major objectives of a health system: improved health and financial risk protection. It is especially relevant for the design and sequencing of universal health coverage to meet the needs of poor populations.