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8. Operational research in tigray region 1318. OPERATIONAL RESEARCH IN TIGRAY REGION:REPORT OF THE FIRST YEAR OF ACTIVITIES 2005-2006Margherita Terranova, Valeska Padovese, Aldo MorroneOperational Research on “Correlation between Dermatologic andSystemic Diseases in Tigray Region”Report of the first year of activity(October 2005 - October 2006)1. IntroductionThanks to the initiative called “Italian Contribution to the Health SectorDevelopment Program (HSDP)”, the Italian Embassy in Addis Abeba, fromSeptember 2002 is supporting developing of “Operational Researches” inEthiopia. The Regional Health Bureau of the National Regional State ofTigray (RHB) and the Italian Embassy, have decided that part of the fundswill be utilized for funding an Operational Research (OR) on correlation betweendermatologic and systemic disease in Tigray Region.In order to properly carry out this project, the Tigray RHB (TRHB) is supportedby two of the following organizations:• IISMAS (International Institute of Medical, Anthropological and SocialScience) an Italian organization with extensive international experience indermatology, working in Mekele at Ayder Hospital.• TMA (Tigray Medical Association) which the physicians association forthe Tigray Region.The general objective of the present project is to promote the improvementof the health service offered to the Ethiopian population through thestrengthening of the diagnostic and healing capabilities of the dermatologicaland venereal pathologies as well as general systemic and infectious diseases(HIV included) in rural community of Tigray Regional State.The activity of the research, which started in October 2005, has come to theend of the first year of work.In the following pages of this document, there are reported all the activitiesand the results of this first year of research.