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Authors: Mchomvu, Ruth Daniel; Advisor: -; Participants: Hussein, Ally Kassim; Matee, Mecky (2022) - Socio-demographic characteristics of the study participants
A total of 378 children and adolescents on ART were included in this study. Their median age was 6.0 (IQR 3,10) years and 126 (33.3%) were children (5–9 years old). More than half, 193 (51.1%) were male, and 231 (61.2%) were in either primary school or below (Table 1).Immunological and clinical characteristics of the study participants
Of the 378 HIV-positive children and adolescents enrolled in this study, 124 (32.8%) had virological non-suppression and 22 (5.8%) had TB/HIV co-infection, 139 (36.8%) had a WHO clinical stage III at the time of ART initiation and 205 (54.2%) had a high CD4 count (CD4 count > 350 cells/mm3 fo...
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Authors: Komba, Faraja Evod; Advisor: -; Participants: Fabian, Christina; Elimbinzi, Elianaso; Shao, Godlisten N. (2022) - Water is very important to all organisms where it acts as the main solvent to many substances and essential for the existence and development of life. According to World Health Organization (2017), inadequate sanitation is a major source of sickness in the world. UN (2017) affirmed that about 90% of diarrheal deaths are due to contaminated water, poor sanitation and poor hygiene. A report from joint monitoring program for water supply and sanitation by WHO and UN (2017) revealed that 4.5 billion people lack access to good sanitation. This shows that people are susceptible to waterborne diseases (Sullivan et al. 2017; Kilungo et al. 2018; Mukaratirwa-Muchayenyereyi et al. 2020). Additi...
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Authors: Boniface, N.; Bertotti, G.; Advisor: -; Participants: - (2015) - This lecture presents: All classes given at UDSM (participants invited also from other Institutions); The next step (MSc project); Master project; Linkage is an important component; Project 1a: evolution of syn-rift fault kinematics; 1b Cooling and strengthening are important: A thermal anomaly at the onset of rifting is common.
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Authors: Shedura, Vulstan James; Advisor: -; Participants: Mchau, Geofrey Joseph; Kamori, Doreen (2023) - Socio-demographic characteristics of the study participants
Between February 2022 and April 2022, a total of 220 pregnant women living with HIV in the Mtwara region were enrolled. The study participants' median age was 32.7 years (IQR 27.6–37.6). The majority, 34.1% (75/220) and 71.4% (157/220) of the participants were from Mkomaindo hospital and attained only a primary school level of education, respectively. 47.7% (105/220) were unemployed, 51.8% (114/220) were living in urban areas, and 45.5% (100/220) were married.
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Authors: Matee, Mecky; Advisor: -; Participants: Mshana, Stephen E.; Mtebe, Majigo; Komba, Erick Vitus; Moremi, Nyambura; Lutamwa, Julius; Kapona, Otrida; Sekamatte, Musa; Mboera, Leonard E. G. (2023) - Antimicrobial resistance is a global problem and involve pathogens which have the potential to move between food producing animals and humans by direct exposure or through the food chain or the environment. The objective of this study was to determine the performance in addressing antimicrobial resistance in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. Desk review and in-depth interviews were employed for data collection. Interviews were conducted with national antimicrobial resistance focal officials.
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Authors: Lemmens, R.L.G.; Lemmens, R.L.G.; Advisor: -; Participants: - (2017) - Development professionals have deployed several mobile phone-based ICT (Information and Communications Technology) platforms in the global South for improving water, health, and education services. In this paper, we focus on a mobile phone-based ICT platform for water services, called Sensors, Empowerment and Accountability in Tanzania (SEMA), developed by our team in the context of an action research project in Tanzania. Water users in villages and district water engineers in local governments may use it to monitor the functionality status of rural water points in the country. We describe the current architecture of the platform’s front-end (the SEMA app) and back-end and elaborate o...
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Authors: Mzee, Tutu; Advisor: -; Participants: Theckla Kazimoto; Joseph Madata; Rose Masalu; Markus; Bischoff; Mecky Matee; Sören L. Becker (2021) - Data on the prevalence, genotypes and antibiotic resistance patterns of colonizing and infection-associated Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) strains both in humans and animals in Tanzania are scarce. Given the wide range of infections caused by S. aureus and the rise of methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) globally, this review aims at collecting published data on S. aureus bacterium to improve our understanding of its epidemiology in Tanzania.
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Authors: Kayuni, Emmanuel Nestory; Advisor: -; Participants: - (2021) - Porcine cysticercosis, human cysticercosis, neurocysticercosis, and epilepsy pose a serious public health risk and lead to economic losses to the small-scale pig farmers in Tanzania’s rural areas. It also resulted in lowering the pig’s prices, high treatment expenses, lower labour productivity, and social discrimination. In Tanzania, small-scale pig producers are unaware of the methods that are used to manage and prevent the diseases associated with Taenia solium.
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Authors: Dayo-Babatunde, B.; Advisor: -; Participants: Martinez, J.; Kuffer, M.; Kyessi, A. G. (2018) - With this study we aim to measure the quality of streets as public spaces between various urban fragments – planned, gated and unplanned neighbourhoods – in a fragmented settlement located in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. In contrast with the UN-Habitat (2013) study, in which only quantitative indicators were measured, our study measures the quality of streets by combining both quantitative (objective) indicators of street connectivity and qualitative (subjective) indicators based on residents’ perceptions. Results of this study are relevant for local planning authorities and policy-makers in areas of policy intervention and can contribute to filling t...
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Authors: Georgiadou, Yola; Advisor: -; Participants: - (2016) - Any attempt to develop mobile-phone based platforms that allow citizens themselves to report data on near-by rural water points and update the Water Point Mapping System (WPMS) baseline in Tanzania depends on an understanding of reporting practices of water users or their representatives within the local context. The aim of this paper is to describe such reporting practices to official data collectors during the nation-wide baseline data collection for the WPMS project (May 2011 to April 2013). We draw on fieldwork for a five-year action research project (2012-2017) titled Sensors, Empowerment and Accountability in Tanzania (SEMA), and funded by NWO-WOTRO Science for Global Developmen...
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Authors: Verplanke, J.J.; Advisor: -; Participants: - (2017) - The Water Sector Development Programme (WSDP) of Tanzania aims to improve the performance of the water sector in general and rural water supply (RWS) in particular. During the first phase of the WSDP (2007 to 2014), implementing agencies developed information systems for attaining management efficiencies. One of these systems, the Water Point Mapping System (WPMS), has now been completed, and the database is openly available to the public, as part of the country’s commitment to the Open Government Partnership (OGP) initiative. The Tanzanian WPMS project was the first attempt to map “wall-to-wall” all rural public water points in an African nation. The complexity of the endeavor led to...
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