Smoking, alcohol and substance abuse defines one of the major harmful causes for unhealthy pregnancy. This research needs to explore the knowledge of women on substance abuse during pregnancy; if at all there is any issue evident of substance abuse among women who live in Mbeya City, then to find ...
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Onchocerciasis can be prevented by treating communities at risk every year with a dose of ivermectin.  Evidence suggests that instead of just preventing blindness and skin diseases associated with Onchocerciasis, ivermectin can be used to eliminate the parasite permanently from the community.  The World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for the ...
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Antenatal care is a medical and general care that is provided to pregnant women during pregnancy. A number of studies indicate that the Antenatal Care utilization rate is still low due to many factors that need to be examined such as socio demographic factors, knowledge of social support. Word wide ...
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Malnutrition remains one of the most common causes of morbidity and mortality among children throughout the world, this study aimed to identify children aged 6months to less than 5 years with malnutrition, mothers knowledge in Sumbawanga municipal. Health care professional have a responsibility to assist each children to provide education ...
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Health professionals have responsibility to help each woman select the most appropriate hormonal contraceptive according to her personal preferences, needs and circumstances. The main aim of this study is to identify the prons and cons of hormonal contraceptive use among women of Sumbawanga residing for at least six months. The ...
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Fredrick Ojija Lecturer (Mbeya University of Science and technology - MUST) and PhD Scholar (Biodiversity and Ecosystem Management) at the Nelson Mandela Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST) The aim of the project is to model the potential spatial distribution of the Invasive plant Parthenium  hysterophorus in and around the ...
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Surveillance of onchocerciasis transmission in vectors is paramount towards making decision when to stop Mass Drug Administration (MDA) during this NTD elimination strategy ...
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Abstract Onchocerciasis control relies on use of mass treatment with the microfilaricide ivermectin. Despite many years of community treatment, the disease recently has started to re-appear in areas including that had mass drug treatment in combination with vector control using larvicide application. Onchocerciasis is one of diseases with massive data ...
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Abstract Background: Timely prediction of temporal RVF epidemics is limited by absence of time-series data as disease epidemics occur for a short period of time after every seven to fifteen years’ episodes. This necessitates the use of anomaly detection systems (ADS) that would detect unusual behaviour within simulated data as ...
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