Helminth egg contamination of vegetables purchased at suburban market in Hanoi, Vietnam was examined. A total of 317 vegetables were examined and 82 (26%) were revealed to be positive for parasite eggs. Of the 15 varieties, 13 were positive except for horseradish and cucumber. Contamination was highest in leafy vegetables (31%), followed by root vegetables (17%) and fruit vegetables (3%). Throu...

OBJECTIVE To explore ideas of truck drivers and villagers from rural Tanzania about heterosexual anal sex (HAS) and the associated health risks. METHODS Qualitative study using 8 in-depth interviews (IDIs) and 2 focus group discussions (FGDs) with truck drivers and 16 IDIs and 4 FGDs with villagers from the Morogoro region. Study participants included 24 women and 46 men. Data analysis was pe...

Approaches to expand malaria control interventions in areas of active conflict are urgently needed. Despite international agreement regarding the imperative to control malaria in eastern Burma, there are currently no large-scale international malaria programmes operating in areas of active conflict. A local ethnic health department demonstrated that village health workers are capable of impleme...

LINK TO PAPER Boundary Dispute Settlement Using Mobile GIS Track: State and Local Government Author(s): Jeroen Verplanke, Mike McCall Boundary disputes in Tanzania are occurring because of land tenure insecurity. Settling disputes is necessary to enable land use planning at the village level as required by the national planning authorities. Visualization of boundaries, with a PDA running ArcPad...

Social Science contributions to the understanding of psychiatric care have highlighted the passage from person to patient as being crucial to the moral career of the mentally ill. In this article another moment relevant to a discussion on illness and social identity is investigated, namely the passage from patient to clinical case. Socio-anthropological fieldwork was conducted between 2007 and ...