According to the 2016–2017 Tanzania HIV Impact Survey, only 45% of men living with HIV (MLWH) were aware of their HIV status. In an effort to increase HIV testing in Tanzania, including among men, the Government of Tanzania passed a law in December 2019 allowing HIV self-testing (HIVST...
Methods: Data were obtained from the 2016– 17 Tanzania HIV impact survey. We included 677 newly diagnosed people living with HIV. Late HIV diagnosis and AHD were defined as having a CD4 cell count below 350 cells/μL or 200 cells/μL at diagnosis, respectively. Bivariate and mul...
The law prohibits discrimination against any person “known or perceived” to be HIV positive and establishes medical standards for confidentiality to protect persons living with HIV/AIDS. The law also criminalizes the deliberate transmission of HIV, but there were no prosecutions based on this law....
Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children, Tanzania and Ministry of Health, Zanzibar. Tanzania HIV impact survey (THIS) 2016-2017: final report. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. 2018. Wiles K, Bramham K, Seed PT, Nelson-Piercy C, Lightstone L, Chappell LC. Serum creat...
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Empty CellITT impact midlineITT impact endline GEM scale (0–24) .88∗ (.40) .34 (.35) N 1,179 1,229 Violence subscale (0–6) .13 (.09) .13 (.09) N 1,751 1,760 Reproductive health subscale (0–5) .17 (.09) −.02 (.08) N 1,482 1,517 Sexual relationships subscal...
In the context of HIV, where gloves are often unavailable for months on end or else supplied in insufficient amounts, it was noted: ‘I get gloves disposable 100, surgical 40 in a month, so now do you think how many procedures am I going to perform? Because each procedure needs to wea...
, Gender, Elderly and Children (MoHCDGEC), Ministry of Health (MoH), National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Office of the Chief Government Statistician (OCGS),and ICF. Tanzania demographic and health survey and malaria Indicator Survey (TDHS-MIS) 2015-16. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. 2016....
All deaths occurring within the hospital during pregnancy or the first 6 weeks of the puerperium were included in this survey. Postmortem examination was performed in 35% of the cases. In the remaining cases the diagnosis was made on clinical grounds. During the period under review, there were...
P4P has been widely used in the UK and the USA [16] and increasingly in low- and middle-income countries [17]. There is a growing body of evidence evaluating the impact of P4P [18]. Findings show that overall P4P has a positive effect on targeted service outcomes [19], although the ...