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Rebecca Voelker

JAMA. 1999;282:2111.

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Ethiopian health care professionals living in Sweden have joined forces to fight the spread of AIDS and other diseases in their homeland.

"We have a moral obligation to assist those living in-country," explained Wubshet Mamo, PhD, a research scientist at AstraZeneca PLC. During the First International Conference on AIDS in Ethiopia held last month in Addis Ababa, Mamo described the efforts of the Association of Ethiopian Health Professionals in Sweden (AEHPS), which was established in 1992 in Stockholm.

Since 1994, AEHPS has worked with the Integrated Holistic Approach–Urban Development Project (IHA-UDP), an Ethiopia-based program aimed at bringing basic services to four of the poorest sectors of Addis Ababa. By channeling financial and material resources from Sweden, AEHPS by 1998 helped increase the child immunization rate to 91%, and boosted the proportion of women in family planning programs from 10% to 57%, in the IHA-UDP primary care clinic.

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