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  "detail": "FINDING: I found no government, health-ministry or operator page that sets up a dedicated national suicide or crisis hotline for Ethiopia. The closest official line is 8335.\n\nPRIMARY (closest official) — 8335\n- Operator: Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI), National Public Health Emergency Operations Center (PHEOC) call center.\n- Official source 1: https://ephi.gov.et/about-us/contact/ and https://ephi.gov.et/public-health-emergency/public-health-emergency-management/. Both print the line exactly as \"for Emergency Call 8335 | 0112765340\". Neither page gives hours, languages or cost.\n- Official source 2: EPHI \"National Public Health Emergency Operations Center Handbook\" V1, dated April 2022: https://ephi.gov.et/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/EPHI_cPHEM_EWISMD_PHEOC_Handbook_V1.pdf\n  - Section 5.9 \"Call center\" says: \"EPHI has dedicated two toll free lines, 8335 and 8665\"; \"Since March 2020, toll-free hotline service (8335) ... is established as institutionalized system\"; the call center \"has been serving 24/7 on the shift bases\".\n  - Section 5.9 lists its functions. One of them is \"Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS)\". The others include event-based surveillance, test results, home isolation, contact tracing and health education.\n  - Section 12.9 says: \"toll-free call center with the line number of (8335) functioning for 24/7\".\n- Hours: 24/7 (handbook).\n- Cost: toll-free (handbook).\n- Languages: no official EPHI page names them. A Mastercard Foundation partner article (13 June 2022, https://mastercardfdn.org/en/news/ethiopia-officially-launches-a-new-digital-platform-that-provides-public-health-emergency-related-information/) says the 8335 platform gives information \"in five different languages\" but does not list them. Treat languages as UNCONFIRMED.\n- Caveat: 8335 is a general public-health emergency line (COVID-19, cholera and similar). It is not described officially as a suicide or crisis line.\n\nDISPUTED ATTRIBUTION\n- progress.guide/atlas/africa/ethiopia/ describes \"8335 (National Mental Health Hotline)\" as 24/7, free, and run by \"Ministry of Health and the Ethiopian Mental Health Society\". It gives no source or date.\n- Wikipedia's \"List of suicide crisis lines\" entry for Ethiopia (8335) cites only progress.guide (retrieved 8 July 2026).\n- I found no MoH, EPHI or Ethiopian Mental Health Society page that supports this operator or the \"mental health hotline\" framing. A site:moh.gov.et search for a mental health hotline found nothing, and moh.gov.et/en/contact returned 404.\n- A private counselling provider (fitretcounseling.com, 2026 guide) says outright: \"Ethiopia does not yet have a dedicated national mental health crisis hotline.\"\n\nOTHER NATIONAL LINES (not crisis-specific)\n- 8797: national anti-trafficking hotline, toll-free. It includes mental-health support among its services and answers in Amharic, Afan Oromo, English and Tigrigna. Source: UN Ethiopia, https://ethiopia.un.org/en/node/293683 (launched March/April 2025). Hours are not stated.\n- 8665: second EPHI toll-free line (handbook). Its purpose is not described.\n- 907 (ambulance, Addis Ababa) and 939 (police) appear only on third-party pages. I did not verify them officially.\n\nHOW CURRENCY WAS CHECKED\n- On 2026-09-24 I fetched both EPHI pages live, and both still show 8335.\n- The handbook is April 2022. It is the newest official text I found that gives hours and cost, so hours and cost rest on a document that is about 4.5 years old.\n- I did not call or contact any line.\n\nTO CHECK\n- Open the EPHI contact page and the handbook PDF (sections 5.9 and 12.9, text-extracted pages 11 and 50) and confirm the quotes.\n- Confirm that progress.guide gives no source for its operator claim.",
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  "title": "Ethiopia: no official dedicated suicide/crisis line found. Closest official line is EPHI 8335, a public-health emergency line that includes MHPSS. The \"8335 = National Mental Health Hotline\" wording has no official source.",
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      "note": "Checked on 2026-09-24. I did not call or contact any line.\n(1) I fetched https://ephi.gov.et/about-us/contact/ and https://ephi.gov.et/public-health-emergency/public-health-emergency-management/ with curl. Both return HTTP 200 and print \"for Emergency Call 8335 | 0112765340\" exactly as quoted. Neither page gives hours, languages or cost.\n(2) I downloaded the EPHI PHEOC Handbook V1 PDF (106 pages, cover dated April 2022) and extracted its text with pdftotext. Section 5.9 \"Call center\" contains the quoted text word for word: \"EPHI has dedicated two toll free lines, 8335 and 8665\", \"Since March 2020, toll-free hotline service (8335) ... is established as institutionalized system\", \"serving 24/7 on the shift bases\". The list of functions includes \"Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS)\" next to surveillance, test results and home isolation. Section 12.9 says \"toll-free call center with the line number of (8335) functioning for 24/7\". So \"24/7, toll-free\" is supported, and so is the point that 8335 is a general public-health emergency line rather than a suicide/crisis line.\n(3) The UN Ethiopia page (node/293683) confirms 8797 as the Ministry of Justice/IOM national anti-trafficking hotline. It is toll-free, answers in Amharic, Afan Oromo, English and Tigrigna, and includes MHPSS. No hours are stated.\n(4) progress.guide/atlas/africa/ethiopia/ does describe 8335 as \"National Mental Health Hotline\", 24/7, \"Operated by the Ministry of Health and the Ethiopian Mental Health Society\", with no source or date. That confirms the attribution is unsourced.\n(5) My own web search for an Ethiopian MoH suicide or mental-health hotline found no official page. It surfaced only third-party pages: progress.guide, and fitretcounseling.com, which says no dedicated national crisis line exists. This agrees with the negative finding.\nI did not independently check the Mastercard Foundation \"five languages\" article, so the languages field remains unconfirmed, as the contribution itself says.",
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      "note": "Checked independently on 2026-09-24. I did not call or contact any line. (1) I fetched ephi.gov.et/about-us/contact/ and .../public-health-emergency/public-health-emergency-management/ with curl. Both returned HTTP 200 and, with tags stripped, contain \"for Emergency Call 8335 | 0112765340\". Neither gives hours, languages or cost. (2) I downloaded EPHI_cPHEM_EWISMD_PHEOC_Handbook_V1.pdf (1,622,132 bytes; the cover says April 2022) and ran pdftotext on it. Line 691 says \"EPHI has dedicated two toll free lines, 8335 and 8665\". Line 695 says \"Since March 2020, toll-free hotline service (8335)\". Line 697 says \"serving 24/7 on the shift bases\". Line 705 lists \"Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS)\" among the functions of the 8335 call center. Lines 2053-2054 say \"toll-free call center with the line number of (8335) functioning for 24/7\". So toll-free and 24/7 are supported, and so is the point that this is a general public-health emergency line. (3) The UN Ethiopia page node/293683 (dated 18 Apr 2025) says 8797 is run by the Ministry of Justice with IOM support. It is toll-free nationwide, answers in Amharic, Afan Oromo, English and Tigrigna, includes MHPSS, and gives no hours. (4) progress.guide/atlas/africa/ethiopia/ does print \"8335 (National Mental Health Hotline)\", 24/7 and free, \"Operated by the Ministry of Health and the Ethiopian Mental Health Society\". Small nuance: the page lists \"Ethiopian Mental Health Society\" and \"Ministry of Health, Ethiopia\" as references, but only as organisation names, with no link, document or date. That supports the contribution's point that the attribution has no verifiable official source. (5) A web search for an Ethiopian MoH suicide hotline found only third-party aggregators (Wikipedia, progress.guide, therapyroute) and no official page, which fits the negative finding. I did not check the Mastercard Foundation \"five languages\" article, so languages stay unconfirmed, as the contribution says.",
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