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). "We are in this together:" dyadic-level influence and decision-making among HIV serodiscordant couples in Tanzania receiving access to PrEP

Fonner, V.A.; Ntogwisangu, J.; Hamidu, I. (Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, 2021)

ABSTRACT Introduction: Postpartum family planning is an effective means of achieving improved health outcomes for women and children, especially in low- and middle-income settings. We assessed the cost-effectiveness of ...

‘We do not do any activity until there is an outbreak’:

Nyamhanga, T; Frumence, G; Mwangu, M; Hurtig, A (Global Health Action, 2014)

Background: Little is known about the barriers to disease prevention and health promotion at the community level within a decentralized health system. Objective: This paper, therefore, presents and discusses findings ...

We have been working overnight without sleeping”: traditional birth attendants’ practices and perceptions of post-partum care services in rural Tanzania

Mahiti, R.J.; Kiwara, D.A.; Mbekenga, K.C.; Hurtig, A.; Goicolea, I. (Bio med central, 2015-02)

Background: In many low-income countries, formal post-partum care utilization is much lower than that of skilled delivery and antenatal care. While Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) might play a role in post-partum care, ...

“ … we were like tourists in the theatre, the interns assisted almost all procedures … ”

Sirili, N; Anaeli, A; Mselle, L; Nyongole, O; Massawe, S (BMC Medical Education, 2021)

Background: Training of mid-level providers is a task-sharing strategy that has gained popularity in the recent past for addressing the critical shortage of the health workforce. In Tanzania, training of mid-level providers ...

"When in the body, it makes you look fat and HIV negative": The constitution of antiretroviral therapy in local discourse among youth in Kahe, Tanzania

Ezekiel, M.J; Talle, A.; Juma, J.M; Klepp, K-I (Elsevier, 2009)

Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is becoming increasingly more accessible within the health care system in Tanzania. However, the impact of the increased availability of ART on local conceptions about medicines, health and ...

Where there is no local author: a network bibliometric analysis of authorship parasitism among research conducted in sub-Saharan Africa

Rees, C.A.; Mohsen, A.; Kisenge, R. (Muhimbili University of Health and allied science, 2021)

ABSTRACT Introduction: Authorship parasitism (ie, no authors affiliated with the country in which the study took place) occurs frequently in research conducted in low-income and middle-income countries, despite published ...

White Paper on Early Critical Care Services in Low Resource Settings

LOSONCZY, L.; GIRMA, B.; ROUHANI, S.; PAPALI, A.; et al (Annals of global health, 2021)

This White Paper has been formally accepted for support by the International Federation for Emergency Medicine (IFEM) and by the World Federation of Intensive and Critical Care (WFICC), put forth by a multi-specialty ...

WHO Expert committee on specifications for pharmaceutical preparations: Fifty-fifth report

Habib, A.; Varley, D.S.; Petra, D. (WHO, 2021)

ABSTRACT The World Health Organization was established in 1948 as a specialized agency of the United Nations serving as the directing and coordinating authority for international health matters and public health. One of ...

Who gets prompt access to artemisinin-based combination therapy? A prospective community-based study in children from rural Kilosa, Tanzania.

Simba, D.O.; Warsame, M.; Kakoko, D.; Mrango, Z.; Tomson, G.; Premji, Z.; Petzold, M. (PLoS One., 2010)

BACKGROUND: Effective and timely case management remains one of the fundamental pillars for control of malaria. Tanzania introduced artemisinin-combination therapy [ACT] for uncomplicated malaria; however, the policy ...

WHO/INRUD core prescribing indicators and antibiotic utilization patterns among primary health care facilities in Ilala district, Tanzania

Kilipamwambu, A.; Bwire, G.M.; Myemba, D.T.; Njiro, B.J.; Majigo, M.V. (2021)

Background: Antibiotic use requires regular monitoring to prevent emergence of antibiotic resistance. Objectives: To assess antibiotic prescribing patterns at health care facilities (HCF) in Ilala district, Tanzania. Methods: ...

WHO/INRUD core prescribing indicators and antibiotic utilization patterns among primary health care facilities in Ilala district, Tanzania

iKilipamwambu, A; Bwire, G; Myemba, D; Njiro, B; Majigo, M (JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance,, 2021-03-21)

Results: A total of 604 prescriptions were reviewed. Patients had median age (IQR) of 15 (4–31) years with majority having upper respiratory tract infection 33.3% (n " 201), urinary tract infection 31.1% (n " 188) or diar ...

Why are primary school children overweight and obese? A cross sectional study undertaken in Kinondoni district, Dar-es-salaam

Mwaikambo, A.S.; Leyna, H.G; Killewo, J.; Simba, A.; Puoane, T. (Bio med central, 2015-12)

Background: The world is experiencing an alarming increase in prevalence of childhood obesity. Despite this trend little is known about determinants of childhood obesity in Tanzania. A cross sectional study determined ...

Why give birth in health facility? Users’ and providers’ accounts of poor quality of birth care in Tanzania

Mselle, L. T.; Moland, K. M.; Mvungi, A.; Evjen-Olsen, B.; Kohi, T. W. (BioMed Central Ltd, 2013)

Background: In Tanzania, half of all pregnant women access a health facility for delivery. The proportion receiving skilled care at birth is even lower. In order to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity, the government ...

Willingness and ability to pay for artemisinin-based combination therapy in rural Tanzania

Saulo, E.C.; Forsberg, B.C.; Premji, Z.; Montgomery, S.M.; Björkman, A. (BioMed Central, 2008)

Background: The aim of this study was to analyse willingness to pay (WTP) and ability to pay (ATP) for ACT for children below five years of age in a rural setting in Tanzania before the introduction of artemisinin-based ...

Willingness to pay for children health insurance benefits among parents/guardians in Mbeya city

Kashangaki, A.A. (Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, 2019)

ABSTRACT Background: Tanzania is like Many other developing countries, that out of pocket still contributing the large percent of the in the health financing mechanisms. Out of pocket expenditure that parents/guardians ...

Willingness to volunteer in a Phase I/II HIV vaccine trial: a study among police officers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Tarimo, E.A.M.; Thorson, A.; Bakari, M.; Mwami, J.; Kulane, A. (COACTION, 2009)

Background: As HIV infection continues to devastate low-income countries, efforts to search for an effective HIV vaccine are crucial. Therefore, participation in HIV vaccine trials will be useful for the development of ...

Withholding and withdrawing life support measures from terminally ill patients: perspectives of healthcare workers at Bugando medical centre, Mwanza region-Tanzania

Mabega, G.N. (Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, 2019)

Background: Withholding and withdrawing life support measures from terminally ill patients are challenges in clinical practice, particularly in the ICU; it brought different opinions among healthcare workers and still ...

Women sexual empowerment: adoption of female-controlled preventive measures against transmission of HIV infection

Temu, F.S (Muhimbili University of health and Allied Science, 2000)

Salaam, was undertaken during June and July 2000. It sought to establish their perception of the female condom and its role in the struggle for women sexual empowerment. Ability to negotiate safer sex was considered ...

Womens birth experiences Reasons for choice of a place for delivery among mothers in Zanzibar North region

Yahya, Talhiya.A (Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, 2009)

More than half a million women die each year of pregnancy or pregnancy related conditions. Most of these are in the third world countries. In Tanzania the Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) is presently 578 per 100,000 live ...

Women’s perceptions of antenatal, delivery, and postpartum services in rural Tanzania

Mahiti, R.G.; Mkoka, A.D.; Kiwara, D.A.; Mbekenga, K.C.; Hurtig, A.; Goicolea, I. (Global Health Action, 2015-10)

Background: Maternal health care provision remains a major challenge in developing countries. There is agreement that the provision of quality clinical services is essential if high rates of maternal death are to be reduced. ...

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