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Drugs can treat diseases, reduce symptoms, and enhance patients’ health and quality of life. However, taking adrug is not always as easy as just swallowing a pill. This is because drugs have some unwanted effects. AdverseDrug Reactions (ADRs) are one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality and contribute to excessivehealth care costs. To assess knowledge, attitude, and practice of health care providers on adverse drug reportingamong community pharmacists, Gondar, Ethiopia. Community-based cross-sectional study designs were usedfrom March to May. The sampling method was a survey from community pharmacists. Self-administeredquestioner was used, and the collected data was entered SPSS version 20 software for analysis. The study included85 community pharmacists to assess the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of adverse drug reaction reporting.From a total 85 community pharmacists, 70(82.4%) of the respondents were able to differentiate ADR from sideeffects. Out of 85 respondents, 75(88.2%) and 74(87.1%) knew the availability of the national reporting systemand ADR reporting form in Ethiopia respectively. Moderate reporting of ADR by community pharmacists wasidentified in this study. Training sessions to clarify the role of various community pharmacists in ADR reportingwill hopefully fill the observed gap in knowledge and practices. The community pharmacy should formulatestrategies to enhance the detection and reporting of ADRs.