Introduction: The estimated numbers of diabetes mellitus patients in Tanzania are most probably going to increase as a result of longer expected life expectancy, urbanization associated with a high prevalence of obesity ...

Background: As global warming is now widely accepted as a reality, temperature and humidity are likely to become ever more of a problem in warehouses and outlets as far as storage conditions are concerned. Hence storage ...

Background: The city of Dar es Salaam is growing very rapidly in all sectors. The increase of the population in the city also reflects the need of pharmaceutical services. However, delivery of pharmaceuticals to the society ...

ABSTRACT SETTINGS <, , The study was conducted in public diabetes clinics, hospital and community pharmacies closest to diabetes clinics in Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar. , OBJECTIVE To investigate the role ...

Background: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) are a major global health problem and Sub-Saharan Africa is the world's most severely affected region. Prophylaxis against ...

SETTINGS: The study was conducted in public hypertension and HIV clinics, hospital and community pharmacies in Dar es Salaam. OBJECTIVE: To assess the knowledge of the hypertensive-only and the hypertensive-HIV patients ...

Candidiasis is one of the major opportunistic infections in individuals living with HIV infection especially those with severe immunosupression. The control of candidiasis is faced with several problems including, the ...

Background information Histamine fish poisoning which is also called scombroid fish poisoning is a mild to moderate form of food poisoning caused by eating spoiled or bacterial contaminated fish after capture or during ...

Background: Chronic cardiac failure (CCF) is one of the major causes of high morbidity and mortality in Tanzania. Patients with CCF often have other diseases and require adequate multiple drug treatment, which is important ...