• Pregnancy Risk and Contraception Among Reproductive Age Women With Rheumatic Heart Disease Attending Care at Jakaya Kikwete Cardiac Institute 

  Paulo., D (2022-10)

  Background: Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) remains prevalent in the developing part of the world and females including those of reproductive age are disproportionately affected. It is one of the commonest cardiac diseases ...
• Morbidity Patterns, Outcomes and Associated Factors Among Patients Admitted In Coronary Care Unit at Jakaya Kikwete Cardiac Institute, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania 

  Joseph, A (Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, 2022-10)

  Background Coronary care unit is a specialized unit for caring of critically ill cardiac patients. With the increasing burden of disease it is no doubt this special unit is crucial, however the causes of admission, ...
• The Association Between Adverse Childhood Experiences (Aces) with Challenging Behaviors Among Public Ordinary Level Secondary School Students in Kinondoni Municipal, Dar Es Salaam 

  Mwaijala, T. A (Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, 2022-10)

  Background: Adverse Childhood experiences (ACEs) are wide varieties of distressing events during a child’s life. These events are such as physical and emotional abuse and neglect as well as living in a dysfunctional ...
• Action leveraging evidence to reduce perinatal mortality and morbidity. 

  Akuze, J.K.; Annersted, S.; Benova, L., et. al… (Springer Nature, 2021)

  Background: Insufficient reductions in maternal and neonatal deaths and stillbirths in the past decade are adeterrence to achieving the Sustainable Development Goal 3. The majority of deaths occur during the intrapartum ...
• Effect of 3 Days of Oral Azithromycin on Young Children With Acute Diarrhea in Low-Resource Settings 

  Ahmed, T.; Chisti, M.J.; Rahman, M.W. et. al…(2021). (JAMA Network Open. 2021., 2021-12-16)

  Importance: World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines do not recommend routine antibiotic use for children with acute watery diarrhea. However, recent studies suggest that a significant proportion of such episodes have a ...
• Building sustainable research capacity at higher learning institutions in Tanzania through mentoring of the young research peers. 

  Balandya, E.; Sunguya, B.; Gunda, D, et all.... (BMC Med Educ., 2021)

  Background: Sustainability of research culture in Sub-Saharan Africa is threatened in part by the lack of a critical mass of young researchers with the requisite skills and interest to undertake research careers. This paper ...
• The road to success is paved with dolutegravir: Dolutegravir treatment success among in children and adolescents living with HIV (CALHIV) at the Baylor Tanzania Centres of Excellence. 

  Bacha, J.; Mayalla, B.; Chodota, M., et. al., (Journal of the International AIDS Society., 2021)

  Efficacy and safety data of novel antiretrovirals, such as dolutegravir (DTG), in children and adolescents, often lags behind adult data, and can lead to hesitation and slow uptake by HIV clinicians. Beginning in 2019, the ...
• Peripheral neuropathy in HIV-infected children attending care and treatment clinic, at Muhimbili National Hospital, Dar es Salaam: a cross sectional study. 

  Amiji, I.A.; Naburi, H.E.; Kija, E., et. al., (ELSEVIER, 2021)

  Background: Peripheral neuropathy (PN) is a neurological complication of untreated Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection or exposure to certain antiretroviral drugs. In Tanzania where HIV is a major public health ...
• ). Informal food environment is associated with household vegetable purchase patterns and dietary intake in the DECIDE study: Empirical evidence from food vendor mapping in peri-urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. 

  Ambikapathi, R.; Shively, G.; Leyna, G., et. al., (SAGE, 2022)

  We study the relationship between the food environment (FE) and the food purchase patterns, dietary intakes, and nutritional status of individuals in peri-urban Tanzania. In Africa, the prevailing high density of informal ...
• Not a problem at all or Excluded by Oneself, Doctors and the Law? Healthcare workers’ perspectives on access to HIV-related healthcare among same-sex attracted men in Tanzania 

  Alexander, M.; Ishungisa, M.; Melkizedeck, L. (SAGE, 2022)

  Introduction: Drawing on qualitative research in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, this article explores how men who engage in sex with other men perceive their interactions with healthcare providers, and how they would prefer ...
• Fine Particulate Matter Constituents and Infant Mortality in Africa: A Multi-Country Study 

  Bachwenkizi, J.; Liu, C.; Men, C., et all... (ELSEVIER, 2021)

  Background: Few studies have investigated the association between exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and infant mortality in developing countries, especially for the health effects of specific PM2.5 constituents. ...
• Obsession with suppression: comparison of virally suppressed and unsuppressed children and adolescents living with HIV (CALHIV) treated with dolutegravir regimens in Mbeya and Mwanza, Tanzania. 

  Bacha, J.; Mayalla, B.; Chodota, M. et all.... (Journal of the International AIDS Society, 2021)

  Current guidelines recommend using dolutegravir (DTG) as a preferred ART regimen in eligible CALHIV. However, descriptions of CALHIV who remain virologically unsuppressed despite treatment with DTG remain unknown. We aimed ...
• Serological Markers of Viral Infections (Rubella Virus, Human Cytomegalovirus and Arboviruses) among Symptomatic Pregnant Women in Rural and Urban Areas of Mwanza, Tanzania 

  Awadh, N.; Nyawale, H.; Chibwe, E., et. al... (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/tropicalmed, 2021-06)

  Viral infections have been associated with poor pregnancy outcomes. We investigated the magnitude of rubella virus (RV), dengue virus (DENV), Zika virus (ZIKV) and human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) among symptomatic pregnant ...
• Factors influencing truth telling by health care providers to terminally ill cancer patients at Ocean Road cancer institute in Dar es salaam, Tanzania. 

  Athanas, R.; Gasto, F.; Renatha, S.J. (WILWY $ SONS, 2020-12)

  Background: Widely accepted international clinical ethics standards and Tanzania's national cancer treatment guidelines mandate that healthcare providers give patients the information they want or need in an understandable ...
• Neonatal resuscitation: EN-BIRTH multi-country validation study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 

  Ashish, P.C; Peven, K.; Ameen, S., et. al.. (BMC, 2021)

  Background: Annually, 14 million newborns require stimulation to initiate breathing at birth and 6 million require bag-mask-ventilation (BMV). Many countries have invested in facility-based neonatal resuscitation equipment ...
• Sickle Gen Africa Network. Sickle Cell Disease Genomics of Africa (SickleGenAfrica) Network 

  Anie, K.A.; Olayemi, E.; Paintsil, V., et. al (BMJ OPEN, 2021)

  Objectives: To provide lay information about genetics and sickle cell disease (SCD) and to identify and address ethical issues concerning the Sickle Cell Disease Genomics of Africa Network covering autonomy and research ...
• Assay testing on stool for the diagnosis of paediatric pulmonary TB in Tanzania. Public Health Action 

  Ainan, S.; Furia, F.; Mhimbira, F. et all... 2021 (The Union (www.theunion.org), 2021-06-21)

  Setting: Six health facilities in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Objective: To evaluate the use of stool specimens in the diagnostic workup of paediatric TB using the Xpert® MTB/RIF assay. Design: Between December 2018 and May ...
• Conservation status revision and communities’ perceptions of 22 Aloe species in Tanzania. Plant Ecology and Evolution. 

  1. Abihudi, A.; Boer, J.; Treydte, C. et all... 2021 (MUHAS, 2021)

  Many Aloe species are globally threatened due to overharvesting for trade and habitat destruction. CITES regulates their international trade. In Tanzania, 50% of all existing Aloe species had previously been assessed, ...
• Uterine model-based simulation training on uterine compression sutures placement for management of postpartum hemorrhage at Muhimbili National Hospital Dar es Salaam 

  Baraka, F.M. (Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, 2021)

  Background: In Postpartum hemorrhage, uterine compression sutures (UCS) are applied when pharmacological method fails to control bleeding due to uterine atony. UCS techniques were seldom used at Muhimbili National ...
• Effect of tranexamic acid on blood loss in total hip arthroplasty at Muhimbili Orthopaedic Institute: a retrospective comparative study 

  Theobald, J.M. (Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, 2021)

  Background: Total Hip Arthroplasty (THA) is associated with significant intraoperative and postoperative blood loss. At present, six to eight cases of THA are being performed weekly at MOI. Tranexamic acid (TXA) comes as ...

View more