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Table 1 Population, no. and percentage of patients who started ART in relation to targets, percentage urbanization, number of hospital beds, and number of physicians, by administrative region

From: Utilization of antiretroviral treatment in Ethiopia between February and December 2006: spatial, temporal, and demographic patterns

Region

2006 projected population *

No. of patients who started ART by December 2006

ART target for 100,000 patients for December 2006 **

Percent

Projected % urbanization for 2006 *

No. of hospital beds per 10,000 population in 2005 #

No. of physicians per 100,000 population in 2005 #

Addis Ababa

3012762

22291

16491

100

100

8.3

7.8

Harari

196000

951

1366

69.6

62.2

24.3

21.6

Dire Dawa

398000

1247

1114

100

74.4

9.2

7.8

Gambela

247000

235

912

25.8

19.0

3.9

2.5

Tigray

4335000

4471

6025

74.2

18.8

2.9

1.8

Benishangul

625000

544

1730

31.4

9.9

4.1

2.3

Amhara

19120000

13962

35448

39.4

11.5

0.8

0.7

Oromia

26553000

9711

22530

43.1

13.3

0.9

0.7

SNNPR

14902000

4197

12372

33.9

8.8

1.8

0.7

Afar

1389000

420

1108

37.9

9.1

0.9

1.2

Somali

4329000

376

3513

10.7

17.0

1.0

0.1

Total

75067000

58405

100000

58.4

16.2

1.8

2.2

  1. * – source: based on [22]
  2. ** – source: based on [6]
  3. # – source: based on [54]