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Urban West Regional and District Projections Volume XII

This report presents population projections for the period 2003 to 2025 for the Urban West Region

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Voluntary counselling and testing up-take increased over four-fold after starting ART in a Tanzanian district hospital

Background: anti-retroviral therapy (ART) in developing countries aims at change of both: the prognosis of HIV/AIDS and the health care setting. In this setting voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) is an important basis for information and behaviour changes. This study investigates changes in VCT up-take at St. Fra...

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Youth in the labor market and the transition from school to work in Tanzania

Tanzania, together with many other Sub-Saharan countries (see Guarcello and others 2005), suffers from a severe youth unemployment and inactivity problem in urban areas (Mjema 1997). Despite sustained growth in the second half of the last decade, during the 1990s labor market outcomes have further deteriorated (Govern...

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Acting Now to Overcome Tanzania's Greatest Health Challenge: Addressing the Gap in Human Resources for Health

The focus of McKinsey?s research effort is on the HRH constraint, faced by many developing countries, in absorbing development aid and scaling up urgently needed health programs. HRH in this context is defined as the health workers at the front line of healthcare service delivery. The field work necessary to diagnose...

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An unnecessary Evil?
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Analyzing the problem of unsustainable health information systems in less-developed economies

Most of donor-supported information technology (IT)–based projects developed or implemented in

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Antimicrobial resistance in urinary bacterial isolates from pregnant women in rural Tanzania

Treatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria and urinary tract infections in pregnancy can prevent adverse outcome for mother

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Be quick – seeking care for life threatening malaria in southern Tanzania

Prompt treatment with relatively cheap and effective drugs can prevent deaths from malaria. So why does this disease still cause more deaths than any other throughout Tanzania? The growth in the use of modern medicines has reduced the delaying impact of traditional remedies. The introduction of the 'integrated managem...