30% of deaths in Ethiopia are due to non–communicable diseases
0.497 score on the Human Development Index (HDI) makes Ethiopia among the bottom 20 countries in the world
>40% of the population is below the age of 15
0.1 doctors per 1,000 people (2020)
In early November 2020, civil conflict broke out in northern Ethiopia when Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ordered a military offensive in the Tigray region. A major humanitarian crisis has ensued. UNICEF has estimated that 12 million children desperately need aid and humanitarian assistance. More than 2.4 million people were recorded to be internally displaced at the end of 2024. There have been repeated attacks on humanitarian workers in Tigray. Consequently, many organisation shave pulled out of the area, exacerbating the existing difficulties.
The Horn of Africa is currently facing an unprecedented crisis. The region – which comprises Ethiopia, Somalia, Somaliland, Kenya and Djibouti – is experiencing one of the worst droughts the region has seen in forty years. Starting in 2020 and reaching its peak in 2022, at least 36 million people in the region have been affected. The complex, multifaceted nature of the humanitarian problem has created a chronic need that could last for years to come. The crisis is on course to be one of the worst humanitarian disasters seen in recent history.
According to the Human Rights Measurement Initiative, Ethiopia is currently achieving only 79.3% of what is possible regarding the right to health, based on its current level of income. The situation looks much worse in Tigray, of the more than 853 health centres in the region before the conflict, just 14% remain undamaged.
Conflict, climate change, and constricted access to food due to inflated pricing, has pushed 22 million people into high levels of acute food insecurity according to FEWS NET. This is reported to have particularly affected children and internally displaced peoples, causing further health complications. It is now classified as a protracted food crises, which increases the vulnerability of the population to opportunistic health infections, such as cholera, furthere by a lack of safe drinking water, and reproted medicine shortages, particularly in the northern regions of Ethiopia.
Tuberculosis (TB), neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and non-communicable diseases continue to be a significant health challenge. Ethiopia is one of the 22 highest burdened countries for TB which remains of one the leading causes of mortality. And the nation continues to bear a significant burden of Africa’s NTDs
Epidemics are a particular concern in Ethiopia, with a three-year Cholera outbreak still perstisting. Over nine million cases of Malaria have been reported, and there is a serious threat of a measles outbreak.
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£5 can help us to give 15 people treatment
£20 will provide 16 children with antibiotics
£100 will provide 83 pregnant women with life saving medicine.
£450 will provide am emergency medical kit to 60 families.
Whatever you give, you could be making a life-changing, even life-saving difference to someone every month.
£5 is enough to source and send £600 worth of medical supplies a year to people in need; enough to help approximately 50 people around the world.
£10 is enough to source and send £1,200 worth of medical supplies a year to people in need; enough to help approximately 100 people around the world.
£25 is enough to provide around 750 treatments in a year, helping approximately 250 people in need; and for some, is the difference between life & death.
£100 is enough to provide medicines and supplies for approximately 1,000 people a year living in disaster-hit and vulnerable communites.
Whatever you give, you could be making a life-changing, even life-saving difference to someone every month.
IHP supplies critical medicine to our partners to support populations displaced by the conflict who often don’t have access to any stable healthcare. by supplying essential primary healthcare medicines, such as diabetes medicines and antihypertensives, we offer hope to IDPs with chronic healthcare needs. The medicine received by health staff supporting IDPs empowers them to continue to care for the patients they are there to serve. Alongside our partner Project HOPE, IHP has ensured access to preventative treatment to control and promote progress towards the elimination of soil transmitted helminths as part of an integrated national mass drug administration programme targeting school-aged children.
