A5028539963- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Family Support in Illness
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Corneal surgery and disorders
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Malaria Research and Control
- Glaucoma and retinal disorders
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Ophthalmology and Visual Impairment Studies
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Reproductive Health and Contraception
- Viral Infections and Vectors
National Institute for Medical Research
2006-2025
Purpose: Screening school students for refractive errors is a component of many primary eye care programs. In 2004 trial two approaches spectacle-delivery to Tanzanian secondary found that only one third were using their spectacles at three months. Barriers spectacle use investigated questionnaires and focus group discussions. Methods: At the months follow-up survey questionnaire explored satisfaction with attitudes participants (median age 15 years). Attitudes reactions friends, teachers...
Abstract Background Evidence-based parenting programmes have strong evidence in preventing and mitigating violence, but in-person are challenging to deliver at scale. ParentApp is an open-source, offline-first app-based adaptation of the Parenting for Lifelong Health Parents Teens programme promote playful positive parenting, reduce risks sexual violence victimisation, prevent against adolescents. This study aims evaluate effectiveness cost-effectiveness compared attention-control group....
Background While there are a number of examples successful small‐scale, youth‐friendly services interventions aimed at improving reproductive health service provision for young people, these projects often short term and have low coverage. In order to significant, long‐term impact, initiatives must be implemented over sustained period on large scale. We conducted process evaluation the 10‐fold scale up an evaluated intervention in Mwanza Region, Tanzania, identify key facilitating inhibitory...
Evidence shows that parenting behaviours, including the use of violent discipline, can be changed through programmatic interventions. This study seeks to examine how policymakers and service providers in Tanzania perceive provision support as a strategy prevent violence against children what enabling hindering factors are for scale-up existing evidence-based supports. It does this by applying Daly's analytical framework support. Qualitative research was undertaken, with interviews conducted...
As many countries implement different programs aimed at eliminating malaria, attention should be given to asymptomatic carriers that may interrupt the progress. This was a community-based cross-sectional study conducted in Tanzania from December 2022 July 2023 within 4 villages each of 3 regions, Geita and Kigoma, which are high malaria transmission, Arusha, is low transmission. Malaria diagnosed individuals aged 1 year older using rapid diagnostic test light microscope. A total 2,365 3,489...
African adolescents are at high risk of poor sexual health. School-based interventions could reach many in a sustainable and replicable way, if enrolment, funding infrastructure adequate. This study examined pupils', recent school leavers', parents' teachers' views experiences rural Tanzanian primary schools, focusing on the implications for potential health programmes. From 1999 to 2002, participant observation was conducted nine villages 158 person-weeks. Half Year 7 pupils were 15–17...
The World Health Organization estimates that 3.1 percent of East African women aged 15–44 have undergone unsafe abortions. This study presents findings regarding abortion practices and beliefs among adolescents young adults in Tanzania, where is illegal. From 1999 to 2002, six researchers carried out participant observation nine villages conducted group discussions interviews three others. Most informants opposed as illegal, immoral, dangerous, or unacceptable without the man's consent, many...
This paper presents villagers' assessments of young people's sexual and reproductive health vulnerability community-based interventions that may reduce both risk in rural Mwanza, Tanzania. The primary methods used were 28 group discussions 18 in-depth interviews with representatives various social groups four villages. majority participants attributed risks to a combination modernisation (and its impact on family community life), socioeconomic conditions, norms rural/lakeshore communities...
Little is known about the nature and mechanisms of factors that facilitate or inhibit scale-up subsequent implementation school-based adolescent sexual reproductive health (ASRH) interventions. We present process evaluation findings examining affected 10-fold such an intervention, focussing on teachers' attitudes experiences. Qualitative interviews focus group discussions with teachers, head ward education coordinators school committees from eight schools took place before, during after...