Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "Tanzania"
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Community Health Workers to Improve Antenatal Care and PMTCT Uptake in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: A Quantitative Performance Evaluation
(JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 2014)Background: Home visits by community health workers (CHW) could be effective in identifying pregnant women in the community before they have presented to the health system. CHW could thus improve the uptake of antenatal ... -
Multivitamin supplementation improves haematologic status in children born to HIV-positive women in Tanzania
(International AIDS Society, 2013)Introduction: Anaemia is prevalent among children born to HIV-positive women, and it is associated with adverse effects on cognitive and motor development, growth, and increased risks of morbidity and mortality. Objective: ... -
Opportunities for Intelligent Interfaces Aiding Healthcare in Low-Income Countries
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2008)Child mortality is one of the most pressing health concerns almost 10 million children die worldwide each year before reaching their fifth birthday, mostly in low-income countries. To aid overburdened and undertrained ... -
Risk factors for small-for-gestational-age and preterm births among 19,269 Tanzanian newborns
(BioMed Central, 2016)Background: Few studies have differentiated risk factors for term-small for gestational age (SGA), preterm-appropriate for gestational age (AGA), and preterm-SGA, despite evidence of varying risk of child mortality and ... -
Taxonomy of the ant genus Proceratium Roger (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the Afrotropical region with a revision of the P. arnoldi clade and description of four new species
(Pensoft Publishers, 2014)Abstract The taxonomy of the genus Proceratium Roger is updated for the Afrotropical region. We give an overview of the genus in the region, provide an illustrated identification key to the three clades (Proceratium arnoldi, ...