Author’s response to reviews Title: Understanding Resilience of Female Adolescents towards Teenage Pregnancy: A Crosssectional Survey in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Authors:

Understanding resilience of female adolescents towards teenage pregnancy: a cross-sectional survey in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

BACKGROUND In Tanzania, teenage pregnancy rates are still high despite the efforts being made to reduce them. Not enough is known about how adolescents experience and cope with sexuality and teenage pregnancy. Over the past few decades, most studies have focused on vulnerability and risk among youth. The concept of 'reproductive resilience' is a new way of looking at teenage pregnancy. It shift...

Planning and Budgeting for Nutrition Programs in Tanzania: Lessons Learned From the National Vitamin A Supplementation Program

Background Micronutrient deficiency in Tanzania is a significant public health problem, with vitamin A deficiency (VAD) affecting 34% of children aged 6 to 59 months. Since 2007, development partners have worked closely to advocate for the inclusion of twice-yearly vitamin A supplementation and deworming (VASD) activities with budgets at the subnational level, where funding and implementation o...

Decentralisation and Health Services Delivery in 4 Districts in Tanzania: How and Why Does the Use of Decision Space Vary Across Districts?

Background Decentralisation in the health sector has been promoted in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) for many years. Inherently, decentralisation grants decision-making space to local level authorities over different functions such as: finance, human resources, service organization, and governance. However, there is paucity of studies which have assessed the actual use of decisi...

Author's response to reviews Title: Evaluation of Simple Rapid HIV Assays and Development of National Rapid HIV Test Algorithms in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Authors:

Re: Resubmission of the Revised Paper Titled " Evaluation of simple rapid HIV assays and development of national rapid HIV test algorithms in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania " for Publication I, Said Aboud, the author of the paper titled " Evaluation of simple rapid HIV assays and development of national rapid HIV test algorithms in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania " have incorporated the following formatting c...

Author's response to reviews Title: Community-Owned Resource Persons for malaria vector control: enabling factors and challenges in an operational programme in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Authors: