Background Community health worker (CHW) interventions to manage childhood illness is a strategy promoted by the global health community which involves training and supporting CHW to assess, classify and treat sick children at home, using an algorithm adapted from the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI). To inform CHW policy, the Government of Tanzania launched a program in ...

1National Institute for Medical Research, Tabora, Tanzania. 2Department of Veterinary Medicine and Public Health, Sokoine University of Agriculture, P.O. Box 3021, Morogoro Tanzania.3Southern Africa Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance, Morogoro Tanzania. 4Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries Development, Dar es Salaam Tanzania.5Department of Disease Control, University of Zambia, Lusaka Z...

this study highlights the costs and benefits of indigenous beef cattle fattening schemes in shinyanga urban and kishapu districts in tanzania. specifically, in this study the net profit (np) for fatteners between beef cattle fattening schemes has been determined. the schemes were divided into two main categories, scheme 1 in which the animals were fed on cottonseed hulls (cshl) based diets and ...

1 Faculty of Science, Sokoine University of Agriculture, P. O. Box 3038, Mazimbu campus, Morogoro, Tanzania. 2 Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Sokoine University of Agriculture, P. O. Box 3015, Chuo Kikuu, Morogoro, Tanzania. 3 Institute of Traditional Medicine, Department of Natural Product Development and Formulation, Muhimbili University of Health and Applied Sciences, P.O. Box 65001 Dar Es ...

1 Faculty of Science, Sokoine University of Agriculture, P. O. Box 3038, Solomon Mahlangu Campus, Morogoro, Tanzania. 2 Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Sokoine University of Agriculture, P. O. Box 3015, Chuo Kikuu, Morogoro, Tanzania. 3 Instute of Traditional medicine Department of Natural Product Development and Formulation, Muhimbili University of Health and Applied Sciences, P.O. Box 65001 D...

1 Tanga Research Centre, National Institute for Medical Research, Tanga, Tanzania, 2 Global Health Institute, Gouverneur Kinsbergen Centrum, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium, 3 Division of Livestock and Human Diseases Vector Control, Tropical Pesticides Research Institute, Arusha, Tanzania, 4 Department of Medical Parasitology and Entomology, School of Medicine, Catholic University of He...

Background Micronutrient deficiency in Tanzania is a significant public health problem, with vitamin A deficiency (VAD) affecting 34% of children aged 6 to 59 months. Since 2007, development partners have worked closely to advocate for the inclusion of twice-yearly vitamin A supplementation and deworming (VASD) activities with budgets at the subnational level, where funding and implementation o...

Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is an acute viral disease of small ruminants. The disease was first reported in Tanzania in 2008 when it was confined to the Northern Zone districts bordering Kenya. The present study was carried out to confirm the presence of PPR virus (PPRV) in Tanzania and to establish their phylogenetic relationships. Samples (oculonasal swabs, tissues and whole blood) were ...

Note: Proceedings of the 2nd One Health Conference in Africa. Jointly organised by the Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance and the Tanzania National Institute for Medical Research, held at the Snow Crest Hotel in Arusha, Tanzania from 16th to 19th April 2013: http://www. sacids.org/kms/frontend/ index.php?m=119. In April 2013, the Southern African Centre for Infectious D...

Introduction The unique Tanzania Centre for Orthopaedic Technologists (TATCOT) for the English speaking countries in Africa, celebrated its 10th anniversary in 1991. The German Technical Co-operation Agency (GTZ) laid the foundation stone of this remarkable development in Orthopaedic Technology on the 26th August, 1981 with the arrival of the first two expatriate teachers. The decision of the M...