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Diets, Fruit and Vegetable Intake and Nutritional Status in Tanzania: Scoping Review

Maternal &Child Nutrition, EarlyView.
This scoping review summarizes evidence on diets, fruit and vegetable (F&V) intake, and nutritional status in Tanzania to identify information gaps and to help with the design and targeting of potential interventions to improve F&V intake. While the majority of existing literature on diets and F&V intake was heterogeneous, evidence suggests that among ...
Dorcas A. Amunga, Sonja Y. Hess, Frederick K. E. Grant, Joyce Kinabo, Deanna K. Olney   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Level of knowledge, acceptability, and willingness to use oral fluid HIV self-testing among medical students in Kilimanjaro region, Tanzania: a descriptive cross-sectional study

AIDS Research and Therapy, 2020
Background HIV Self-Testing (HIVST) is universally accepted as an innovative strategy complimenting existing HIV testing services to archive the UNAIDS, 95-95-95 goals by 2030.
Proches Arobogast Vara, Luyeye Sostenes Buhulula, Fatma Aziz Mohammed, Bernard Njau   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Quality of Neonatal Health Care: Learning From Health Workers’ Experiences in Critical Care in Kilimanjaro Region, Northeast Tanzania [PDF]

, 2013
Neonatal deaths are generally attributed to suboptimal standards of health care. Health care worker motivation and adherence to existing guidelines are rarely studied.
Mbwele, Bernard, Ward, Sarah AP, Ide, Nicole L, Mrema, John G, Melnick, Joshua A, Manongi, Rachael   +5 more
core  

Dung beetle diversity on Mt. Kilimanjaro

, 2019
This data set contains plot data on climate, land area, land use, primary productivity, conservation status and mammal defecation rates for explaining the diversity of dung beetles on Mount Kilimanjaro.
Peters, Marcell Karl, Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf, Gebert, Friederike   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Food Insecurity is Associated with Food Consumption Patterns and Anthropometric Measures but not Serum Micronutrient Levels in Adults in Rural Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2010
The purpose of the present paper is to assess the relationship between food insecurity and food consumption patterns, anthropometric measures and serum micronutrient levels in rural Kilimanjaro, Tanzania.
Leyna, Germana H, Hussain, Akhtar, Mnyika, Kagoma S, Mmbaga, Elia J, Klepp, Knut-Inge   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Referential Indeterminacy and De Re Thoughts

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Referential indeterminacy may seem to leave little room for de re or singular thoughts about ordinary objects. I argue that this impression is misleading. We can direct our thoughts at particular objects, even though there is no fact of the matter as to which objects are referred to by the singular terms purporting to stand for them.
Bahram Assadian
wiley   +1 more source

Colorectal cancer in a patient with intestinal schistosomiasis: a case report from Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center Northern Zone Tanzania

World Journal of Surgical Oncology, 2017
Background Colorectal cancer associated with chronic intestinal schistosomiasis has been linked with the chronic inflammation as a result of schistosomal ova deposition in the submucosal layer of the intestine. Among all species Schistosoma japonicum has
Ayesiga M Herman, Alfred Kishe, Heri Babu, Hilary Shilanaiman, Murad Tarmohamed, Jay Lodhia, Patrick Amsi, Jeremia Pyuza, Alex Mremi, Amos Mwasamwaja, Mramba Nyindo, Kondo Chilonga, David Msuya   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Dangers of Trekking on Mount Kilimanjaro [PDF]

Journal of Travel Medicine, 2013
To the Editor‐in‐Chief: Mount Kilimanjaro in northern Tanzania attracts 40,000 trekkers each year and is regarded as “Everyman's Everest.” Although most trekkers' determination to summit is high, their knowledge of the risks associated with climbing to high altitude is understudied. In 2007, Merritt and colleagues1 investigated the knowledge levels of
Paul Gordon John, Welch, David Andrew Dyke, Symmons   +1 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Fucosylation limits ADCC in clinically used anti‐RhD monoclonal antibodies

Transfusion, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Haemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn (HDFN) is caused by maternal alloantibodies, often targeting the D antigen on fetal red blood cells. Maternal immunization is preventable with timely administration of anti‐D polyclonal antibodies (pAbs).
Gabriela Koike, Albert Bondt, Douwe Schulte, Rien Leuvenink, Dirk Jan Mons, Peter C. Ligthart, E. Joanne T. Verweij, AFRICARhE Consortium, Enrico Lopriore, E. J. T. Joanne Verweij, Tienke Vermeiden, Thomas van den Akker, C. Ellen van der Schoot, Derek P. de Winter, Renske van Oever, Abera Kenay Tura, Tadesse Gure, Assefa Desalew, Tewodros Tesfa, Konjit Eshetu, Jeremia Pyuza, Rafiki N. Mjema, Priscus John Mapendo, Jeremiah John Hhera, Bariki Mchome, Patricia Swai, Blandina T. Mmbaga, Aisa Shayo, Peter Moons, Kondwani Kawaza, Luis Gadama, Albert J. R. Heck, C. Ellen van der Schoot, Gestur Vidarsson   +33 more
wiley   +1 more source

Factors influencing disclosure among women experiencing intimate partner violence during pregnancy in Moshi Municipality, Tanzania

BMC Public Health, 2016
Background Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) has serious negative health effects to millions of women around the globe. While disclosing IPV could open doors for support and eventually prevent partner abuse, the factors associated with IPV disclosure ...
Victor Katiti, Geofrey Nimrod Sigalla, Jane Rogathi, Rachel Manongi, Declare Mushi   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source