An assessment of knowledge and hand hygiene practices among healthcare workers at Dodoma Regional Referral hospital (Publications)
The WHO-promoted ‘My 5 moments for hand hygiene’ is designed to prevent the spread of infectious organisms in healthcare settings which occurs mostly via contaminated hands of healthcare workers (HCWs
Youth as agents of change in raising AMR awareness in the community in Dodoma region (Publications)
One of the strategic objectives of the AMR national action plan is to improve public awareness and understanding of AMR. Changing people's behaviour is not easy and the older a person is, the more the
Assessment of knowledge, attitude and practice towards antimicrobial use and resistance among students in three secondary schools in Dodoma City (Publications)
Antimicrobial resistance is still not given enough attention and the public is insufficiently aware of its existence, leading to behaviour, which propagates the rise of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
A pyridyl-furan series developed from the Open Global Health Library block red blood cell invasion and protein trafficking in <em>Plasmodium... (Publications)
With the resistance increasing to current antimalarial medicines, there is an urgent need to discover new drug targets and to develop new medicines against these targets. We therefore screened the Ope
Impact of COVID-19 on the utilization of HIV testing and linkage services in Sierra Leone: experience from three public health facilities in Freetown (Publications)
The COVID-19 pandemic adversely affected the delivery of essential health services globally. In this study, we aimed to assess the impact of the pandemic on HIV testing and linkage services at three p
Body mass index trends and its impact of under and overweight on outcome among PLHIV on antiretroviral treatment in rural Tanzania: a prospective... (Publications)
INTRODUCTION: Increased body weight is an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease and is increasingly reported as a health problem in people living with HIV (PLHIV). There is limited data fro
Incidental radiological findings during clinical tuberculosis screening in Lesotho and South Africa: a case series (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Chest X-ray offers high sensitivity and acceptable specificity as a tuberculosis screening tool, but in areas with a high burden of tuberculosis, there is often a lack of radiological expe
Changes in healthcare utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic and potential causes : a cohort study from Switzerland (Publications)
Objectives: To describe the frequency of and reasons for changes in healthcare utilization in those requiring ongoing treatment, and to assess characteristics associated with change, during the second
Health system resilience: a critical review and reconceptualisation (Publications)
This Viewpoint brings together insights from health system experts working in a range of settings. Our focus is on examining the state of the resilience field, including current thinking on definition
Investigating sustainability challenges for the National Health Insurance Fund in Tanzania: a modelling approach (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to model the long-term cost associated with expanding public health insurance coverage in Tanzania. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: We analysed the 2016 claims of 2 923 5
