A retrospective cross‐sectional study was conducted to investigate the seroprevalence of paratuberculosis in small ruminants in the Arusha Municipality. A total of 383 samples comprising of 192 goat‐ and 191 sheep‐sera from Arusha Municipality collected in the late 2010 and early 2011 by Tanzania Veterinary Investigation Agency – Arusha for surveillance on peste des petits ruminants were tested...

Abstract Tanzania’s Rural Development Policy which encompassed, among other things, establishment of well-planned Ujamaa villages across the country, was a nation-wide agenda implemented immediately after Arusha Declaration 1967. The declaration marked actual beginning Ujamaa, socio-economic policy based on egalitarian principles traditional African societies practiced in Tanzania from 1967 to ...

Frequent and unregulated use of antimicrobials (AM) in livestock requires public health attention as a likely selection pressure for resistant bacteria. Studies among small-holders, who own a large percentage of the world's livestock, are vital for understanding how practices involving AM use might influence resistance. We present a cultural-ecological mixed-methods analysis to explore sectors ...

Sarah M. Durant*†, Meggan E. Craft†, Ray Hilborn, Sultana Bashir, Justin Hando and Len Thomas Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent’s Park, London, NW1 4RY, UK; Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute, Box 661, Arusha, Tanzania; Wildlife Conservation Society, 2300 Southern Boulevard, Bronx, NY 10460, USA; Boyd Orr Centre for Population and Ecosystem Health, College of Medical,...

Note: Proceedings of the 2nd One Health Conference in Africa. Jointly organised by the Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance and the Tanzania National Institute for Medical Research, held at the Snow Crest Hotel in Arusha, Tanzania from 16th to 19th April 2013: http://www. sacids.org/kms/frontend/ index.php?m=119. In April 2013, the Southern African Centre for Infectious D...

This paper reports on the assessment of the quality and quantity of castor oil from castor seeds collected from different regions in Tanzania. The castor seeds from Arusha, Dar es Salaam, Dodoma, Iringa, Kagera and Morogoro regions in Tanzania were extracted by Soxhlet method using n-hexane and the oil yields were determined. The yields were 52.78%, 49.95%, 47.89%, 44.23%, 43.71% and 43.69% for...

On Jan 15–17, 2013, over 800 experts in maternal health came together in Arusha, Tan zania, to present the latest evidence on improving the quality of care for women during pregnancy and childbirth. The past 25 years of the safe motherhood movement have seen extraordinary successes—notably a 33% reduction in maternal mortality from 409 053 in 1990 to 273 465 in 2011. These achieve ments have mo...

1 Tanga Research Centre, National Institute for Medical Research, Tanga, Tanzania, 2 Global Health Institute, Gouverneur Kinsbergen Centrum, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium, 3 Division of Livestock and Human Diseases Vector Control, Tropical Pesticides Research Institute, Arusha, Tanzania, 4 Department of Medical Parasitology and Entomology, School of Medicine, Catholic University of He...