Background: Health care providers have a key role in promotion and provision of adolescents’ reproductive health services. Despite that, adolescents still face obstacles in accessing family planning and abortion related ...

Provider Initiated Testing and Counseling (PITC) was introduced in 2007 by WHO and UNAIDS to ensure universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support services for People Living with HIV and AIDS (PLHIV) . A ...

Mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV remains the main and leading source of HIV infection among infants and children. It accounts for 90% of infancy and childhood HIV infection; hence prevention in this context has ...

Background: Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) is an easily overlooked problem in postsurgical patients. The incidence of untreated PONV is reported to range from 30% to 80% worldwide. At MNH the incidence of PONV ...

Introduction: Indoor air pollution resulting from cooking, using poorly ventilated stoves is responsible for increased morbidity and premature deaths caused by pulmonary, eye, and cardiovascular diseases; Improvement in ...

Background: Rift valley fever (RVF) is a re-emerging viral vector-borne disease with rapid global socio-economic impact. A large RVF outbreak occurred in Tanzania in 2007 and affected more than half of the regions with ...

Background: Rift valley fever (RVF) is an acute febrile viral disease caused by Rift Valley Fever virus, transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes and other blood sucking insects. It is a global re-emerging zoonotic disease with ...

Tanzania has one of the highest incidences. In the literature on AIDS, much attention has been paid to the Western health care workers' knowledge of and attitudes toward AIDS. Little is known of the knowledge and ...

Background: Due to the widespread use of antiretroviral therapy, most children who have been living with HIV/AIDS from a young age are healthy and reach their adolescence and early adulthood. While most of these adolescents ...