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Antimicrobial Potential and Molecular Characterisation of Endophytic Fungi Isolated from Conyza bonariensis from Tanzania

Turkish Journal of Bioscience and Collections, 2023
Objective: The harnessing of medicinal plants for the treatment of infectious diseases has an environmental concern, and therefore environmentally friendly alternative sources like harnessing the potential of endophytes are of paramount importance.
Simeon Phares Nsindagi, Cyprian Beda Mpinda, Fulgence Ntangere Mpenda   +2 more
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Tanzanian women´s knowledge about Cervical Cancer and HPV and their prevalence of positive VIA cervical screening results. Data from a Prevention and Awareness Campaign in Northern Tanzania, 2017 – 2019

Global Health Action, 2021
Background: 14.9 million women (≥15 years) in Tanzania are at risk of developing cervical cancer. Limited cancer care facilities, prevention programs and sparse knowledge among community members and healthcare workers contribute to late-stage ...
Antje Henke, Ulrike Kluge, Theda Borde, Bariki Mchome, Furaha Serventi, Oliver Henke   +5 more
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Detection of Rift Valley Fever virus inter-epidemic activity in Kilimanjaro Region, North Eastern Tanzania

Global Health Action, 2021
Background Rift Valley Fever virus (RVFV) is a zoonotic arbovirus of public health impact infecting livestock, wildlife, and humans mainly in Africa and other parts of the world. Despite its public health importance, mechanisms of RVFV maintenance during
Medard S Kumalija, Jaffu O Chilongola, Rule M. Budodo, Pius G. Horumpende, Sixbert I. Mkumbaye, John-Mary Vianney, Richard S. Mwakapuja, Blandina T. Mmbaga   +7 more
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Risk factors for human cutaneous anthrax outbreaks in the hotspot districts of Northern Tanzania: an unmatched case–control study [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2018
Bacillus anthracis is an aerobic, Gram-positive and spore-forming bacterium, which causes anthrax in herbivores. Humans get infected after coming into contact with infected animals' products.
Elibariki R. Mwakapeje, Sol Høgset, Adis Softic, Janneth Mghamba, Hezron E. Nonga, Robinson H. Mdegela, Eystein Skjerve   +6 more
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‘Fighting an uphill battle’: a qualitative study of the challenges encountered by pharmacy workers when providing services to men who have sex with men in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Global Health Action, 2020
Background Previous research suggests that Tanzanian MSM might prefer consulting pharmacies and drugstores, rather than public healthcare services, when in need of STI medicines and treatment.
Joakim Öhman, Markus Larsson, John Kashiha, Anette Agardh   +3 more
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“Because Even the Person Living With HIV/AIDS Might Need to Make Babies” – Perspectives on the Drivers of Feasibility and Acceptability of an Integrated Community Health Worker Model in Iringa, Tanzania [PDF]

International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2019
Background Countries with health workforce shortages are increasingly turning to multipurpose community health workers (CHWs) to extend integrated services to the community-level.
Katharine D. Shelley, Gasto Frumence, Rose Mpembeni, George Mwinnyaa, Juliana Joachim, Hawa Kadria Kisusi, Japhet Killewo, Abdullah H. Baqui, David H. Peters, Asha S. George   +9 more
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Decentralization of birth registration to Local Government in Tanzania: the association with completeness of birth registration and certification

Global Health Action, 2020
Background In Tanzania only an estimated one-quarter of births are registered and certified. Birth registration uses a centralized system with geographic and cost barriers for families. A pilot decentralized birth registration system has been trialled in
Christopher Sanga, Gregory Kabadi, Emilian Karugendo, Don de Savigny, Daniel Cobos Muñoz, Tim Adair   +5 more
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Uptake of early infant diagnosis (EID) at six weeks after cessation of breastfeeding among HIV exposed children: A cross sectional survey at six high volume health facilities in Iringa, Tanzania

Journal of Interventional Epidemiology and Public Health, 2018
Introduction: Approximately 6% of the deaths among children aged below five years in Tanzania is attributed to HIV/AIDS. Most of these deaths could be prevented if these children were identified, diagnosed and initiated on HIV treatment early.
Sophia Samson, Rose N. Mpembeni, Prosper F. Njau, Rogati S. Kishimba   +3 more
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Tanzania

, 2015
This study aims to achieve a better understanding of the agricultural risk and risk management situation in Tanzania with a view to identifying key solutions to reduce current gross domestic product (GDP) growth volatility. For the purpose of this assessment, risk is defined as the probability that an uncertain event will occur that can potentially ...
Arce, Carlos E., Caballero, Jorge
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Doing and undoing gender in rice business and marketplaces in Tanzania

Cogent Social Sciences, 2021
This paper contributes to the gender-and-marketplace literature by exploring whether and how the ongoing, under-researched food-to-cash crop transformation of rice in Tanzania reinforces or challenges the “doing of gender”. We apply Acker’s “doing gender”
Mesia Ilomo, Lettice Kinunda Rutashobya, Esther K. Ishengoma, Katarina Pettersson, Johanna Bergman Lodin   +4 more
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