Mbaraka Amuri

• HIV, syphilis, and hepatitis B virus infection and male circumcision in five Sub-Saharan African countries

  Open Access•Megan E Peck, Megan Bronson et al.•ARTICLE•PLOS Global Public Health•2023

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  Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) has primarily been promoted for HIV prevention. Evidence also supports that male circumcision offers protection against other sexually transmitted infections. This analysis assessed the effect of circumcision on syphilis, hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and HIV. Data from the 2015 to 2019 Population-based HIV Impact Assessments (PHIAs) surveys from Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe were us…

• Predictors of antibiotics co-prescription with antimalarials for patients presenting with fever in rural Tanzania

  Open Access•Mustafa Njozi, Mbaraka Amuri et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2013

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  Regardless the fact that Malaria is declining but due to lack of laboratories and mRDT in most health facilities in the rural areas, clinicians are still treating malaria presumptively. This leads them to prescribe more drugs to treat all possibilities

• Socio-economic status and HIV/Aids stigma in Tanzania

  Mbaraka Amuri, Steve Mitchell et al.•ARTICLE•AIDS Care•2011

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  Tanzania has a generalised AIDS epidemic but the estimated adult HIV prevalence of 6% is much lower than in many countries in Southern Africa. HIV infection rates are reportedly higher in urban areas, among women and among those with more education. Stigma has been found to be more common in poorer, less-educated people, and those in rural areas. We examined associations between poverty and other variables and a stigmatising attitude (belief that…

• Socio-economic status and HIV/Aids stigma in Tanzania

  Mbaraka Amuri, Steve Mitchell et al.•ARTICLE•AIDS Care•2011

  Añadir item

  Tanzania has a generalised AIDS epidemic but the estimated adult HIV prevalence of 6% is much lower than in many countries in Southern Africa. HIV infection rates are reportedly higher in urban areas, among women and among those with more education. Stigma has been found to be more common in poorer, less-educated people, and those in rural areas. We examined associations between poverty and other variables and a stigmatising attitude (belief that…

• Predictors of antibiotics co-prescription with antimalarials for patients presenting with fever in rural Tanzania

  Open Access•Mustafa Njozi, Mbaraka Amuri et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2013

  Añadir item

  Regardless the fact that Malaria is declining but due to lack of laboratories and mRDT in most health facilities in the rural areas, clinicians are still treating malaria presumptively. This leads them to prescribe more drugs to treat all possibilities

• HIV, syphilis, and hepatitis B virus infection and male circumcision in five Sub-Saharan African countries

  Open Access•Megan E Peck, Megan Bronson et al.•ARTICLE•PLOS Global Public Health•2023

  Añadir item

  Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) has primarily been promoted for HIV prevention. Evidence also supports that male circumcision offers protection against other sexually transmitted infections. This analysis assessed the effect of circumcision on syphilis, hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and HIV. Data from the 2015 to 2019 Population-based HIV Impact Assessments (PHIAs) surveys from Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe were us…

Environmental health (3 obras) · Medicine (3 obras) · Tanzania (3 obras) · Demography (2 obras) · Immunology (2 obras) · Internal Medicine (2 obras) · Odds ratio (2 obras) · Population (2 obras) · Socioeconomics (2 obras) · Syphilis (2 obras)