Kaleab Baye

Biographic Data

ID5466107
NAMEKaleab Baye
GIVEN NAMESKaleab
FAMILY NAMEBaye
SIGNATUREBAYE K
AFFILIATIONSAddis Ababa University
ORCID0000-0001-7298-1096
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS41
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT41
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Are healthier diets culturally affordable in Africa? evidence from four African countries

    Joaquin Ameller, Sophie Drogué et al.ARTICLEAgrekon2025

    In 2023, between 713 and 757 million people experienced hunger globally, with Sub-Saharan Africa facing a prevalence of undernourishment at 20.4%. This study addresses the nutritional challenges affecting vulnerable groups, particularly women and young children, in eight African cities by modelling nutritionally adequate, economically affordable, and culturally acceptable diets. Our goal is to provide optimised diets for future consideration in f…

  • Potential Impact of Large‐Scale Food Fortification in Ethiopia

    Open AccessAregash Samuel, Ramadhani Noor et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2025

    Large-scale food fortification (LSFF) is an effective public health measure because it may reach a large number of populations at risk using current food delivery systems. The objective of the study was to assess coverage and consumption of fortifiable foods at the household level and to assess the potential impact of LSFF on child outcomes (stunting and survival) in Ethiopia. Cross-sectional survey data on sociodemographic characteristics, dieta…

  • Multisectoral Approach to Nutrition in Ethiopia Assessed Through the Lens of the Collective Impact Framework

    Open AccessYetayesh Maru, Stanley Chitekwe et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2025

    The drivers of malnutrition are complex and multifaceted, requiring multisectoral interventions. The benefits of effective multisectoral approaches to nutrition have been recognised by nutrition policies in Ethiopia, but in practice, multisectoral coordination remains a challenge. This study aimed to identify facilitators and challenges to effective multisectoral coordination by applying the collective impact framework. Key informant interviews (…

  • Comparison of Haemoglobin Concentrations From Venous and From Finger‐Pricked Capillary Blood in a Region With a High Prevalence of Anaemia in Ethiopia

    Open AccessDesalegn Kuche, Masresha Tessema et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2025

    This cross-sectional study was conducted in the Somali Regional State in Ethiopia. The purpose of the study was to compare haemoglobin (Hb) concentrations from venous and finger-pricked capillary blood using the HemoCue 301 as well as estimating anaemia prevalence. Participants were non-pregnant women of reproductive age (WRA), 18-49 years old (n = 884). Blood was collected by trained laboratory technologists using standard protocols. Venous bloo…

  • Co‐Coverage of Essential Interventions Across the Health System Continuum of Care for Improving Child Nutrition in Ethiopia

    Open AccessAlemnesh Petros, Meron Girma et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2025

    This study aimed to assess the coverage of essential nutrition interventions delivered through the health system and explored the relationship between co-coverage and child- and maternal-level factors, household-level factors, and access to healthcare facilities. We used data from the Ethiopia Food and Nutrition Strategy Baseline Survey, a population-based cross-sectional study conducted between July 2021 and October 2022. The survey was conducte…

  • Rethinking Growth Monitoring and Promotion in the Era of Universal Health Coverage

    Open AccessBereket Gebremichael, Kaleab Baye et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2025

    Growth monitoring and promotion (GMP) programmes have been implemented for decades in almost all countries. Despite this long history of implementation, GMP has been criticised for being ineffective, calling for a rethink of the programme. With a view of contributing evidence towards the redesign of GMP, we conducted a qualitative evaluation of the programme in various contexts of Ethiopia. We conducted focus-group discussions (FGDs; n = 28) and …

  • Unveiling Disparities and Missed Opportunities in Vitamin A Supplementation Among Children Under Five in Ethiopia

    Open AccessTsedey Moges, Meron Girma et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2025

    Vitamin A supplementation (VAS) is an effective and low-cost strategy for improving vitamin A status and reducing childhood morbidity and mortality. Ethiopia started nationwide biannual VAS in 2006, but routine VAS coverage consistently remained low, necessitating the use of multiple delivery approaches. This study aimed to determine coverage, existing disparities, and missed opportunities for VAS among children under 5 years of age in Ethiopia. …

  • Home Based Management of Diarrhea Contributes to Health Care Seeking Delays Among Caregivers of Under Five Children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

    Open AccessMeseret Azene, Joseph N S Eisenberg et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2025

  • Subnational mapping of anaemia and aetiologic factors in the West and Central African region

    Open AccessKaleab Baye, Bayuh Asmamaw Hailu et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2025

    Objectives: Despite bold commitments to reduce anaemia, little change in prevalence was observed over the past decade. We aimed to generate subnational maps of anaemia among women of reproductive age (WRA), malaria transmission and hemoglobinopathies to identify priority areas but also explore their geographical overlap. Design: Using the most recent Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), we first mapped anaemia clusters across sub-Saharan Africa …

  • Water, sanitation, and hygiene in selected health facilities in Ethiopia

    Open AccessTeshome Bekele Elema, Abebe Aseffa Negeri et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Background Inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in health facilities, and the low adherence to infection control protocols can increase the risk of hospital-acquired (nosocomial) infections (HAIs). The risk for HAIs can increase morbidity, and mortality, health care cost, but also contribute to increased microbial resistance. Objectives The study aimed to assess WASH facilities and practices, and levels of nosocomial pathogens in selec…

  • Prevalence and determinants of stunting and anaemia in children aged 6–23 months

    Open AccessHabtamu Guja, Mariana Belgiu et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2024

    Low- and middle-income countries shoulder the greatest burden of stunting and anaemia in children. This calls for prompt and effective intervention measures, while the contributing factors are not fully understood. This study evaluates determinants spanning from individual-, household- and community levels including agroecology and antinutrients as unique sets of predictors. Primary data were collected from 660 rural households representing the m…

  • Effect of a simplified approach on recovery of children 6–59 months with wasting in Ethiopia

    Open AccessYetayesh Maru, Dessalegn Tamiru et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2024

    Worldwide, nearly 45 million children under the age of 5 years were affected by wasting in 2022. Ethiopia has been challenged by disasters increasing the caseload of children with wasting. This study aimed to determine the effect of a simplified approach on recovery of children with acute malnutrition as compared with the standard protocol. A cluster randomized, controlled, noninferiority trial was carried out in three regions of Ethiopia from De…

  • The influence of adolescents' nutrition knowledge and school food environment on adolescents' dietary behaviors in urban Ethiopia

    Open AccessAbreham Iyassu, Arnaud Laillou et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2023

    Adolescence is a critical period of physical, cognitive, and social development that needs to be supported with healthy diets. Dietary behaviours of adolescents can be shaped by their nutrition-literacy and their interaction with parents and peers as well as their school food environment. Therefore, the present study aimed to assess factors that influence dietary behaviours of adolescents in urban Ethiopia. Sex-disaggregated, focused group discus…

  • Food Safety and Incipient Modern Value Chains

    Open AccessBart Minten, Yetimwork Habte et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Development…2023References: 10

  • Factors Influencing Adolescents' Dietary Behaviors in the School and Home Environment in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

    Open AccessUrsula Trübswasser, Elise F Talsma et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    Background: Malnutrition affects many adolescents in Ethiopia. Over one-third of adolescent girls and two-thirds of boys are thin. Overweight and obesity in Ethiopia is mostly a concern in urban populations of higher wealth quintiles. Urbanization and globalization of diets is shifting food environments. The objective of this study was to assess whether food environments in and around schools in urban Ethiopia influence dietary diversity, quality…

  • Evaluating the coverage and quality of nutrition programs via a bottom‐up approach

    Open AccessAnne‐Sophie Donzé, Abiy Tefera et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2022

    Over the last two decades, great efforts and investments have been made in Ethiopia to ensure that all children have equal access to nutrition services in health facilities. While quality health systems are a prerequisite for quality nutrition services, little attention has been given to the evaluation of the supply and delivery services. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the coverage and quality of the nutrition-specific interventions del…

  • Estimating the number of deaths averted from 2008 to 2020 within the Ethiopian CMAM programme

    Open AccessArnaud Laillou, Kaleab Baye et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2022

    The management of wasting in Ethiopia is heavily reliant on the Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) programme that has been implemented in more than 18,000 service delivery points scattered across the country. Despite the full-scale implementation of the CMAM, the number of child death averted, and the cost per child death averted remains unknown. This study aimed to estimate the cost and the number of child death averted by t…

  • Complementary feeding and food‐group level inequality among Ethiopian children 6–23 months of age (2011–2019)

    Open AccessWoinshet Tizazu, Arnaud Laillou et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2022

    Ensuring diet quality in the first 2 years of life is critical to preventing malnutrition and instilling healthy food preferences. Children's diet quality has changed little over time and inequalities by socioeconomic status, rural-urban residence, but also by food group may exist. Using data from the 2011, 2016 and 2019 demographic and health surveys (DHS), we estimated the prevalence and inequalities in the minimum diet diversity (MDD), minimum…

  • Magnitude, trends and drivers of the coexistence of maternal overweight/obesity and childhood undernutrition in Ethiopia

    Open AccessRebecca Pradeilles, Ana Irache et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2022

    Ethiopia faces a rising problem of overweight and obesity alongside a high prevalence of undernutrition; a double burden of malnutrition (DBM). This study aimed to quantify the magnitude and trends of household-level DBM-defined as the coexistence of maternal overweight/obesity and child undernutrition (i.e., stunting or anaemia)-in Ethiopia between 2005, 2011 and 2016 and understand the potential drivers influencing DBM and the change in DBM ove…

  • Drivers of change in weight‐for‐height among children under 5 years of age in Ethiopia

    Open AccessMeron Girma, Alemayehu Hussein et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2022

    The prevention of wasting should be a public health priority as the global burden of acute malnutrition is still high. Gaps still exist in our understanding of context-specific risk factors and interventions that can be implemented to prevent acute malnutrition. We used data from the four rounds of the Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey (2000-2016) to identify risk factors that have contributed to the change in weight-for-height z-score (WHZ)…

  • Co‐coverage of reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health interventions shows wide inequalities and is associated with child nutritional outcomes in Ethiopia (2005–2019)

    Open AccessKaleab Baye, Arnaud Laillou et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2022

    The health system is the primary vehicle for the delivery of nutrition-specific interventions that aim to reduce maternal and child malnutrition. The integration of nutrition interventions into existing health interventions is promising, but to ensure that no one is left behind requires that access to essential health services is equitably distributed. This study aims to assess trends and socioeconomic inequalities in coverage of reproductive, ma…

  • Child feeding practices in rural Ethiopia show increasing consumption of unhealthy foods

    Open AccessWoinshet Tizazu, Arnaud Laillou et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2022

    The quality of complementary feeding can have both short- and long-term health impacts by delaying or promoting child growth and establishing taste preferences and feeding behaviours. We aimed to assess the healthy and unhealthy feeding practices of infants and young children in rural Ethiopia. We conducted two rounds of surveys in December 2017/18 in Habru district, North Wello, rural Ethiopia among caregivers of infants and young children (N = …

  • Magnitude of urban household food insecurity in East Africa

    Open AccessBereket Gebremichael, Biruk Beletew et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2022

    Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the magnitude and determinants of urban household food insecurity in East Africa. Design: Systematic review and meta-analysis. Setting: Studies conducted in East Africa. Participants: Seventeen studies (fifteen cross-sectional and two cohort) that enrolled 156 996 households. We used the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) guidelines to search electronic …

  • Seasonal variation in maternal dietary diversity is reduced by small‐scale irrigation practices

    Open AccessKaleab Baye, Dawit Mekonnen et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2021

    Some agricultural practices, such as irrigation, have the potential to buffer seasonal dietary gaps and through increased production and consumption improve diets, particularly of the rural poor relying on subsistence farming but also for rural and urban households purchasing irrigated produce on local markets. The study aimed to evaluate the effect of seasonality and irrigation on women's diet in rural Ethiopia. Using a longitudinal study design…

  • Subnational mapping for targeting anaemia prevention in women of reproductive age in Ethiopia

    Open AccessBayuh Asmamaw Hailu, Arnaud Laillou et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2021

    Anaemia in women of reproductive age (WRA) can be effectively addressed if supported by a better understanding of the spatial variations, magnitude, severity and distribution of anaemia. This study aimed to map the subnational spatial distribution of anaemia (any, moderate and severe forms) among WRA in Ethiopia. We identified and mapped (any, moderate and severe) anaemia hotspots in WRA (n = 14,923) at the subnational level and identified risk f…