In the effort to reduce maternal mortality rate, Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5 was declared globally. Tanzania has no exception on this. Maternal mortality and morbidity is still an enduring challenge in Tanzania. In 2010 the Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) was recorded at 454/100,000 live births. Despite of the devoted efforts and significant progress that Tanzania has made in reducing MMR...

The mantle transition zone (MTZ) discontinuities beneath the Tanzania Craton and the Eastern and Western Branches of the East African Rift System are imaged by stacking over 7,100 receiver functions. The mean thickness of the MTZ beneath the Western Branch and Tanzania Craton is about 252 km, which is comparable to the global average and is inconsistent with the existence of present-day thermal...

1 Insect Pest Control Laboratory, Joint FAO/IAEA Programme of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Vienna, Austria, 2 Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment, Zanzibar, Tanzania, 3 Vector and Vector Borne Diseases Research Institute, Tanga, Tanzania, 4 Insect Pest Control Section, Joint FAO/IAEA Programme of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Vienna, Austria, ...

Sleeping sickness also known as Human African trypanosomiasis is a disease of human which exists in two forms and is caused by infection with either Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense (acute sleeping sickness, endemic in East and South Africa) or T.b. gambiense (chronic sleeping sickness, endemic in West and Central Africa) (Welburn et al., 2001). In Tanzania sleeping sickness presents a serious th...

Ramadhani S. O. Nondo, Mainen J. Moshi, Paul Erasto, Denis Zofou, Abdel J. Njouendou, Samuel Wanji, Moses N. Ngemenya, Abdul W Kidukuli, Pax J. Masimba, Vincent P.K. Titanji Department of Biological and Pre–Clinical Studies, Institute of Traditional Medicine, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. National Institute for Medical Research, Dar es Salaam, Tanz...

ORIGINAL ARTICLES Reduced semen quality and risk behaviour amongst men consulting a referral STD clinic.... Lymphoproliferative malignancies in association with endemic African Kaposi’s Sarcoma............ Determination of appropriate clomipramine dosage among depressed African outpatients in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania...................................... Bronchoscopic extraction of aspirated for...

Family planning and Maternal and Child Health (FP-MCH) are key components of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals, given their central role in healthy and productive populations. Tanzania has made some progress in these areas in recent years for example, mortality rates among infants and children under five have declined. However, Tanzania has lagged in maternal health, with the UN MDG Monitor...

ORIGINAL ARTICLES Reduced semen quality and risk behaviour amongst men consulting a referral STD clinic.... Lymphoproliferative malignancies in association with endemic African Kaposi’s Sarcoma............ Determination of appropriate clomipramine dosage among depressed African outpatients in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania...................................... Bronchoscopic extraction of aspirated for...

Four new species of the subgenus Hoplophorella are desccribed and identified from the Afrotropical region: Atropacarus (Hoplophorella) curtisetosus sp. nov. from Uluguru Mountains of Tanzania, Atropacarus (Hoplophorella) distinctus sp. nov. from Ambohitantely Special Reserve of Madagascar, Atropacarus (Hoplophorella) othneios sp. nov. from Ranomafana National Park of Masagascar, and Atropacarus...

ORIGINAL ARTICLES Reduced semen quality and risk behaviour amongst men consulting a referral STD clinic.... Lymphoproliferative malignancies in association with endemic African Kaposi’s Sarcoma............ Determination of appropriate clomipramine dosage among depressed African outpatients in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania...................................... Bronchoscopic extraction of aspirated for...