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Clinical outcome of diabetes patients hospitalized with foot ulcers, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Diabetic foot ulcers are associated with significant morbidity and mortality in Tanzania. Mortality rates among patients with severe ulcers remain high despite surgery. Thus, surgery undertaken during the less severe stages of ulcers may improve patient outcome. Education of patients should underscore the importance o...

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Community education on STIs
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Consolidating the colonial language policy

This paper is a reading of the debate on the medium of instruction in post-primary education in Tanzania. The debate has proved to be an arena of conflicting and contentious ideas on language and education because the two become so intertwined such that at times the distinction between English and education is lost. A...

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Environmental education programme
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Gender Equity in Education and Children at Risk

Issues of Gender equity, children at risk and education are so interconnected that it is often very difficult to address them in isolation. For example, while levels of education and gender equity are associated with the levels of progress and sustainable development of a society, nation or community; education (or la...

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Heavy schistosomiasis associated with poor short-term memory and slower reaction times in Tanzanian schoolchildren

Cross-sectional studies of the relationship between helminth infection and cognitive function can be informative in ways that treatment studies cannot. However, interpretation of results of many previous studies has been complicated by the failure to control for many potentially confounding variables. We gave Tanzania...

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HIV/AIDS, poverty and schooling: an AIDS epidemic or a poverty epidemic?

Apocalyptic assumptions about the impact of high HIV/AIDS prevalence rates may be unhelpful, as they obscure the complex nature of the development problems facing affected populations. In the area of education, new evidence from Uganda and Tanzania suggests that the impact of HIV/AIDS may not be as simple or direct as...