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Original Source: Enhancing the routine health information system in rural southern Tanzania: successes, challenges and lessons learned.
Objective To describe and evaluate the use of handheld computers for the management of Health Management Information System data. Methods Electronic data capture took place in 11 sentinel health centres in rural southern Tanzania. Information from children attending the outpatient department (OPD) and the Expanded Program on Immunization vaccination clinic was captured by trained local school-leavers, supported by monthly supervision visits. Clinical data included malaria blood slides and haemoglobin...
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Why Health IT? Health information technology (Health IT) makes it possible for health care providers to better manage patient care through secure use and sharing of health information - e...
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The Datamonitor Group aims to help its clients operating in the pharmaceuticals, healthcare and biotechnology fields, offering world-leading products and services to meet the challenges of this rapi...
Public health is the scientific, political and sociological approach by a society to maximise the health of the population through disease preventaion and mainenance of healthy life-styles. The main...
Mental health, although not being as obvious as physical health, is very important, causing great unhappiness to those affected, causing additional physical health problems and costing the economy m...
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Tanzania aims to double domestic drug production
Local pharma manufacturers in Tanzania have targeted increasing production capacity by 50% by 2015 hoping to reduce importation of medicines currently standing at more than 70%, reports the Tanzania D...
Interventions to Tackle Neglected Tropical Diseases Take Shape -- Daily News, Tanzania
Masembe Tambwe reports on development and health policy in Tanzania, and a new, integrated disease-control strategy. "Tanzania is prevalent with eight Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)...Whist Tanzan...
Health worker training program in Tanzania's Kigoma Region reducing maternal mortality rate
Inter Press Service reports on the successful efforts of Tanzania's Kigoma Region "to train assistant medical officers to conduct life-saving c-sections at its rural health centers," allowing pregnant...
REFILE-U.N. condemns "abhorrent" attacks on Tanzania albinos
GENEVA, March 5 (Reuters) - Albinos whose body parts are prized by witch doctors are being attacked in rising numbers in Tanzania, with children who are still alive having their limbs chopped off, the...
Health workers face 'severe logistical challenges' to vaccinating Maasai tribes in Tanzania
Chris Endean of the GAVI Alliance writes ahead of the GAVI Partners Forum in a CNN opinion piece about efforts to vaccinate members of the Maasai tribes in Tanzania's Arusha National Park. Noting Maas...
C-Sections Save Kids and Moms in Tanzania
[caption id="attachment_10188" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="President Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania and friends announce encouraging results of a pilot program to help save pregnant women's liv...
Tanzania investigating circulation of fake HIV drugs, stops local ARV production
BBC News reports on an investigation into the circulation of fake HIV drugs in Tanzania, writing, "Analysts say there is concern about the quality of locally made drugs given widespread corruption in...
Leaders announce expansion of successful maternal, child health program in Tanzania
"Tanzania has made significant advances in cutting maternal deaths thanks to a United Nations-sponsored program that brings public and private sectors together to resolve one of the most stubborn but...
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Objective To describe and evaluate the use of handheld computers for the management of Health Management Information System data. Methods Electronic data capture took place in 11 sentinel health...
We conducted a phase I/II randomized placebo-controlled trial with the aim of exploring whether priming with a low intradermal dose of a multiclade, multigene HIV-1 DNA vaccine could improve the immun...
Objective The aim of the study was to monitor the insecticide susceptibility status of malaria vectors in 12 sentinel districts of Tanzania. Methods WHO standard methods were used to detect knoc...
Objective To describe the contribution of paediatric HIV and of HIV co-infections to admissions to a hospital in Moshi, Tanzania, using contemporary laboratory methods. Methods During 1 year,...
Foot-and-Mouth Disease in Tanzania from 2001 to 2006.
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 p...
