1Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences, Ifakara Health Institute, Ifakara, Tanzania, United Republic of; 2Glasgow University, Glasgow, United Kingdom; 3Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania, United Republic of; 4Ministry of Health, Zanzibar, Pemba, Tanzania, United Republic of; 5Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries Development, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, United Republic of; ...

An outbreak of malignant catarrhal fever (MCF), a fatal viral disease in indigenous Tanzanian shorthorn zebu in Ngorongoro district of Tanzania during the period of June 2004 has been described. The disease was diagnosed by clinical, post mortem findings and the virus was identified using molecular characterization study. The history and clinical features included pyrexia, cornel opacity, nasal...

in rural tanzania, recent major influences happen between kiswahili and english to ethnic languages rather than ethnic languages, which had been in contact for so long, influencing each other. in this work, i report the results of investigation of lexical changes in indigenous languages that aimed at examining how ethnic communities and their languages, namely cushitic iraqw, nilotic datooga, n...

this paper focused on the way names of body parts are artistically used to convey meanings and messages in kifipa, a bantu language spoken in tanzania. since the body parts metaphors are used by people to portray meanings in their daily conversations (kovecses, 2004; vierke, 2012), the paper investigated such linguistic richness in the language. methodologically, the study identified names of b...

1Department of Veterinary Medicine and Public Health, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro,, Southern African Center for Disease Infectious Surveillance, Morogoro, United Republic of Tanzania; 2National Institute for Medical ResearchAmani Medical Research Center, Muheza, United Republic of Tanzania; 3Department of Veterinary Medicine and Public Health, Sokoine University of Agriculture, ...

background in early 1990s, tanzania like other african countries, adopted health sector reform (hsr). the most strongly held centralisation system that informed the nature of services provision including health was, thus, disintegrated giving rise to decentralisation system. it was within the realm of hsr process, user fees were introduced in the health sector. along with user fees, various typ...

13 Developing a Framework for Next Generation Integrated Agro Food-Advisory Systems in Developing Countries; Alcardo Alex Barakabitze, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania Kadeghe Goodluck Fue, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania Edvin Jonathan Kitindi, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania Camilius Aloyce Sanga, Sokoine University of Agricultu...

47 Web and Mobile Phone Based Rabies Surveillance System for Humans and Animals in Kilosa District, Tanzania Maulilio J. Kipanyula, Department of Veterinary Anatomy, Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), Morogoro, Tanzania Anna M. Geofrey, Centre for ICT, Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), Morogoro, Tanzania Kadeghe G. Fue, Centre for ICT, Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), Morog...

P.O. Box 447, Arusha, Tanzania. 2 Ifakara Health Institute, P.O. Box 78373, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. 3 Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology, P. O. Box 2958, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. 4 National Institute for Medical Research, Amani Medical Research Centre, P.O. Box 81, Muheza, Tanga, Tanzania. 5 Genome Science Centre and Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Parasitology, Sokoine University...

The occurrence of overweight and obesity has serious health implications. The 2010 Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey data set was reanalysed to compare the prevalences of overweight and obesity between Mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar and to determine how demographic factors can predict overweight and obesity across the United Republic of Tanzania. About 7.92% of the Tanzanian women of repro...