The agriculture sector is the mainstay of the Tanzanian economy as it contributes 26% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), 30 percent of export earnings and provides the bulk of raw materials for local industries. The agriculture sector provides employment to about 75 percent of the total labor force. Access to agricultural information and knowledge is timely, completeness and quality manner is ver...

In spite of the fact that e-government agency (ega) in Tanzania emphasize on the use of ICT within public institutions in Tanzania, accessibility, usability and web security vulnerabilities are still not considered by the majority of web developers. The main objective of this study is to assess the usability, accessibility and web security vulnerabilities of selected Tanzania e-government websi...

Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is an acute viral disease of small ruminants characterised by the sudden onset of depression, fever, oculonasal discharges, sores in the mouth, foul-smelling diarrhoea and death. For many years, in Africa, the disease was mainly confined to West and Central Africa but it has now spread southwards to previously PPR-free countries including Tanzania, Democratic Re...

Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is endemic in Tanzania, with outbreaks occurring almost each year in different parts of the country. There is now a strong political desire to control animal diseases as part of national poverty alleviation strategies. However, FMD control requires improving the current knowledge on the disease dynamics and factors related to FMD occurrence so control measures can b...

Re: Resubmission of the Revised Paper Titled " Evaluation of simple rapid HIV assays and development of national rapid HIV test algorithms in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania " for Publication I, Said Aboud, the author of the paper titled " Evaluation of simple rapid HIV assays and development of national rapid HIV test algorithms in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania " have incorporated the following formatting c...

Background The implementation of new technology can interrupt established workflows in health care settings. The Quality of Maternal Care (QUALMAT) project has introduced an electronic clinical decision support system (eCDSS) for antenatal care (ANC) and delivery in rural primary health care facilities in Africa. Objective This study was carried out to investigate the influence of the QUALMAT e...

doi:10.4102/ojvr.v81i2.738 http://www.ojvr.org Authors: Julius Joseph1 Christopher J. Kasanga2 Mmeta Yongolo1 Chanasa Mpelumbe-Ngeleja1 Raphael Sallu1 Mathias Mkama1 Joseph Masambu1 Affiliations: 1Tanzania Veterinary Laboratory Agency, Tanzania 2Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania Correspondence to: Christopher Kasanga Email: christopher.kasanga@sacids. o...

BACKGROUND Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of adult mortality in low-income countries but data on the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors such as hypertension are scarce, especially in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This study aims to assess the prevalence of hypertension and determinants of blood pressure in four SSA populations in rural Nigeria and Kenya, and urban Namibia ...

Title: Prevalence of sexually transmitted infections among pregnant women with known HIV status in northern Tanzania. Abstract Objectives: Too determine the prevalence of sexually transmittedd infections (STIs) and other reproductive tract infections (RTIs) amongg pregnant womenn inn Moshi,, Tanzania andd too compare the occurrence of STIs/RTIs among humann immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected...

In Tanzania, about two-thirds of deliveries occur in a health facility, varying proportions different communities. We investigated factors that were independently associated with home rural district Tanzania.