Background Infection in healthcare facilities is a major public health problem in most developing countries like Ethiopia. Currently the overall incidence of health care associated infection has been increased and burden of these infections is staggering. This study aimed to assess health care workers compliance with standard precaution practices and associated factors in public health institutions of Dawuro zone, south west Ethiopia, 2016. Methods An institution based cross sectional study was conducted from February1–30/ 2016 in 17 health institutions found in Dawuro zone. Data were collected using a pre-tested questionnaire on 250 health care workers selected by simple random sampling technique. Collected data was checked, coded and analyzed by using SPSS version 20. A P -value less than 0.05 was considered as statistically significant. Result Two hundred fifty health care workers were participated in the study. Out of the total respondents, 162(65.0%) of respondents had complied with standard precaution practices. Service year less than or equal to 5 years, training on standard precaution, having good hand hygiene and availability of personal protective equipment were independently associated with compliance to standard precaution practices. Conclusion Significant numbers of health care workers were not complied with standard precaution practices in this study. Therefore strategies targeted in fulfilling health institutions with supplies like hand hygiene material, Personal Protective equipment and training on standard precaution will improve compliance with standard precaution practice. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12913-019-4172-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

Background: Stunting is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality among under-five children. It is used to assess nutritional status of children by measuring their length/height and age. The purpose of this study was to assess prevalence and factors associated with stunting among children of ages between 24 to 59 months in Butajira town and surrounding district, Gurage zone, Southern Ethiopia.

Postnatal period is the most neglected period though it is a critical phase in the lives of mothers and newborn babies. About 50 to 71 percent of maternal deaths occur during this period, particularly in the first few hours. Therefore, this study aimed to assess couples' opinion & women's utilization of postnatal care service in Wolaita zone, Southern Ethiopia, January 2016. A community based cross sectional study was employed using both quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection. Study subjects were women aged between 15-49 years old who delivered within the past one year before data collection time in the selected districts of Wolaita zone. Multistage sampling technique was used to select study subjects for quantitative study and purposive sampling was used to select participants for qualitative study. A total of 790 sample size for quantitative data was allocated proportionally to the population size of randomly selected kebele and 24 in-depth interviews with key informants was conducted to supplement quantitative study. Bivariate and multivariate analysis was performed to assess independent predictors of postnatal care service utilization. In-depth interview was audio recorded, transcribed, translated and triangulated with quantitative findings. The prevalence of postnatal care service utilization in this study was 34.9%. This study showed that younger mothers, [AOR = 1.82, (95% CI = 1.23, 2.69)]; those mothers who followed antenatal care service in their last pregnancy, [AOR = 10.39, (95% CI = 4.99, 21.60)]; who delivered their last child in health facilities, [AOR = 2.66, (95% CI = 1.75, 4.03)]; who have good knowledge on postnatal care service utilization, [AOR = 7.25, (95% CI = 4.30,12.21)]; and whose couples' have good attitude towards postnatal care service utilization, [AOR = 1.76, (95% CI = 1.16, 2.69)] were more likely utilized postnatal care service than their counter parts. Postnatal care service utilization was low in the study area. Maternal age, maternal health service utilization (antenatal care service and institutional delivery), maternal knowledge and couples' attitude were major predictors for postnatal care service utilization in the study area. Concerned body should focus on the above issue to improve maternal and child health.

Quality of delivery care service is an important aspect of maternal healthcare which enhance delivery services utilization by mothers. Assessing quality of delivery services is a global priority particularly in developing countries; however reports on this aspect are scarce, which calls for further study. Therefore, the objective of this study was to assess quality of delivery care at public health facilities in Arba Minch district, Gamo Gofa zone, Southern Ethiopia. A cross sectional facility based study was conducted among women who gave birth at public health facilities in this area. A total of nine health facilities, 27 key informants and 256 women were included in the study. Data were analyzed using SPSS 20.0 statistical software. The overall quality of delivery care was 54.06% and mother's satisfied on delivery care was 90.2%. Shortage of some medical equipment, drugs and supplies, trained man power, few proper partograph records, good client provider interaction, good client satisfaction and low infection prevention practice was observed in our study. As a conclusion poor quality delivery service was observed at public health facilities. Thus, efforts should be made by government for improving facilities capacity and performance of care providers in order to improve the quality of delivery care.

Background: Nearly, 350 million people in the world are currently living with depression. Depression happening in PLHIV leads to alteration of economic productivity, decrease of working abilities, social isolation, physical decline and difficulties in solving problems. This study investigates the burden of depression and associated factors on HIV/AIDS patients attending an ART clinic. Methods: An institution-based cross-sectional study was implemented from April 1 to May 30, 2019 on a total of 417 HIV-positive patients. Systematic random sampling technique was used to access the study participants. Interviewer-administered structured questionnaire was used for data collection. Data were entered in to EpiData 3.1 and then were exported into Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS window version 20) for analysis. Results: Four hundred ten (410) respondents participated in the study with a response rate of 98.3%. The burden of depression was 50.5% in this study. Male (AOR=1.53; 95%CI: 1.016-2.311), people living in urban (AOR=2.20; 95%CI: 1.29-3.75), patients who had opportunistic infection (AOR=1.98; 95%CI: 1.27-3.11), poor medication adherence (AOR=1.79; 95%CI: 1.13-2.85) and high HIV-related perceived stigma (AOR=1.66; 95%CI: 1.04-2.67) were more likely depressed compared to their counterparts. Conclusion: In this study, male sex, those patients living in urban areas, having opportunistic infections, poor medication adherence, and high HIV-related perceived stigma were significantly associated with depression. Hence, organizations working on HIV programs should address these factors to prevent and manage depression among HIVpositive patients.