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Profile of suicide in Dar es Salaam.
OBJECTIVE To investigate individual socio-demographic characteristics of suicides, the reasons, methods and means employed to commit suicide. DESIGN A descriptive prospective study of suicides. A structured questionnaire was employed to enquire the details of the itemised objectives. SETTING Muhimbili National Hospital--in urban Dar es Salaam. SUBJECTS Fifty three males and 47 females con...
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This paper reports on the levels of organochlorine pesticide residues in edible biota from the coastal area of Dar es Salaam city, Tanzania. Samples were collected from the Msimbazi and Kizinga rivers and from the coastal marine environment receiving waters from these rivers. The samples were analysed for various organochlorine pesticide residues using GC-ECD and the results confirmed with GC-M...
متن کاملLarval Source Management (LSM) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
A prominent example of LSM in urban sub-Saharan Africa is the Urban Malaria Control Program (UMCP), Dar es Salaam, initiated by the City Council in collaboration with Ifakara Health Institute and overseas academic institutions [1-2]. In 2004, mosquito surveillance systems were established and after one year of intensive baseline data collection (2005-2006), operational larviciding with Bacillus...
متن کاملHIV-1 infection and fertility in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
The objective of this study was to examine the association of HIV-1 infection with rates of pregnancy and pregnancy loss in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. A retrospective cohort study of 1,006 HIV-infected women and 485 uninfected women was employed. In multivariate analyses controlling for other predictors of pregnancy, the association of HIV-seropositivity with a woman's reported number of pregnanc...
متن کاملHomicide of children in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
BACKGROUND Although data are sparse, it has been estimated that the highest rates of homicide death amongst children are in Africa. Little information is available on ages 0-14 years. No known quantitative surveillance of early neonaticide (killed at less than one week) has been conducted previously in Africa. METHODS A Violent Death Survey following WHO/CDC Guidelines was completed in Dar es...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: AGORA Magazine
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1380-6319
DOI: 10.21825/agora.v25i4.2363