ABSTRACT
Health effects of the war have been identified since it ended in May 1991, including thousands of persons killed in new ethnic clashes and in insecure areas in southern Ethiopia. Severe epidemics of malaria, typhus, relapsing fever and AIDS have also been reported in 1991, and famine conditions persist in the war-torn country. Three major effects of the war on government health services in Ethiopia since the revolution have been reduced per capita health spending, damage to and destruction of health facilities as well as interruption of services, and development of separate health services by the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front (EPLF) and Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). The development of separate health services by the EPLF in Eritrea and by the TPLF in Tigray was a response to the oppressive Haile Selassie and Mengistu governments. Refugees and displaced populations are particularly vulnerable to malnutrition and infectious diseases.
