Karim Manji

Datos Biográficos

ID5460664
NOMBREKarim Manji
NOMBRESKarim
APELLIDOManji
FIRMAMANJI K
AFILIACIONESMuhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences
ORCID0000-0002-7069-6408
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS21
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR21
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2012
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H0

  • Predictive and concurrent validity of caregiver reported early childhood development assessments

    Open AccessJonathan Seiden, Dana Charles Mccoy et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Many directly assessed and caregiver-reported measures of early childhood development (ECD) are used to monitor outcomes and evaluate interventions in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Many assessments of ECD for children 0–3 years old have robust psychometric properties, but relatively little is known about their ability to predict later developmental and learning outcomes. To address questions about predictive and concurrent validity, w…

  • Developing paediatric subspecialty training in resource-limited settings; the first neonatology subspeciality program in Tanzania

    Open AccessHelga Naburi, Nahya Salim et al.ARTICLEBMC Medical Education2026

    BACKGROUND: Neonatal mortality remains high in Tanzania, where progress toward Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 is constrained by a severe shortage of trained workforce. To achieve the goal, Tanzania, with approximately two million annual births, aims to reduce neonatal mortality from 24 to fewer than 12 deaths per 1,000 live births by 2030. In 2020, only five neonatologists, including expatriates, were available nationwide. To fill this gap, the…

  • We discovered new ways of learning’

    Open AccessJaya Chandna, Rejina Gurung et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2026

    BACKGROUND: Children with disabilities face many barriers to early childhood development services and to pre-primary education. Evidence on inclusive school readiness and community-based approaches in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) still remains limited. OBJECTIVE: To explore the feasibility and acceptability of a co-designed training programme for caregivers to support school readiness among children aged 4-6 years in Bangladesh, Nepal…

  • Is rotavirus aetiology in young children with acute diarrhoea associated with sociodemographic and clinical factors, including rotavirus vaccination status? A secondary cross-sectional analysis of the…

    Open AccessSarah Somji, Christopher R Sudfeld et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    INTRODUCTION: One of the leading causes of global child mortality continues to be diarrhoea where rotavirus contributed to about 24% of deaths among all diarrhoeal deaths, mostly in low-income and middle-income countries. Rotavirus vaccination programmes have contributed to the reduction of mortality from 24% to 19% in rotavirus infections among hospitalised children, but the burden of rotaviral diarrhoea remains high, especially in settings with…

  • Systematic review of risk assessment tools for post-discharge mortality among children in sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessRamya Ginjupalli, Kaitlin Cole et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Post-discharge mortality is increasingly recognized as a major contributor to the high burden of childhood mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. Accurate identification of children at risk for post-discharge mortality is critically important to inform interventions to reduce deaths following hospital discharge. Our objective was to describe the current state of development, validation, or implementation for risk assessment tools for post-hospital disc…

  • Assessing Covid-19 seroprevalence and vaccine uptake among women of reproductive-age in Zanzibar’s archipelago

    Open AccessKarim Manji, Ame Masemo Ame et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Recent events in public health globally have created a need for response by public health researchers in all disciplines to evaluate impact on health, morbidity and mortality of the COVID-19 pandemic that has engulfed the world after 100 years of previous influenza pandemic. Most of the immediate responses, globally; have focused on diagnosis and management of severe cases. However, for evolution of policies dealing with population health in the …

  • Characteristics and outcomes of children 2–23 months of age with prolonged diarrhoea

    Open AccessIrin Parvin, Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayeem Bin Shahid et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2024

    Background: Approximately 12% of all diarrhoeal episodes last for 7-13 days. As such, they are termed prolonged diarrhoea, and are associated with over two-thirds of all diarrhoeal deaths. Due to a lack of robust data, we aimed to evaluate a comparative background characteristics of young children with acute and prolonged diarrhoea, and their outcomes at day 90 follow-up. Methods: We performed a secondary analysis of data from the Antibiotics for…

  • Facility-based care for moderately low birthweight infants in India, Malawi, and Tanzania

    Open AccessKatherine E A Semrau, Rana R Mokhtar et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Globally, increasing rates of facility-based childbirth enable early intervention for small vulnerable newborns. We describe health system-level inputs, current feeding, and discharge practices for moderately low birthweight (MLBW) infants (1500- 10% less than their birthweight; 18.8% of infants were discharged with weights below facility-specific policy [1800g in India, 1500g in Malawi, and 2000g in Tanzania]. Based on descriptive analysis, we f…

  • Safe infant feeding in healthcare facilities

    Open AccessBrooke A Caruso, Uriel Paniagua et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Infants need to receive care in environments that limit their exposure to pathogens. Inadequate water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) environments and suboptimal infection prevention and control practices in healthcare settings contribute to the burden of healthcare-associated infections, which are particularly high in low-income settings. Specific research is needed to understand infant feeding preparation in healthcare settings, a task involvin…

  • A cross-sectional analysis of publication of pediatric global health abstracts from seven major international conferences

    Open AccessCatherine Shari, Tory Prynn et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Research presented at conferences may increase context-specific evidence in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where global childhood disease burden is greatest and where massive relative deficits in research persist. Publication of studies presented at conferences is necessary for complete results dissemination. Our objective was to determine the frequency of publication of pediatric global health conference abstracts and to identify fact…

  • Associations Between Social Support and Symptoms of Antenatal Depression with Infant Growth and Development Among Mothers Living with HIV in Tanzania

    Open AccessArvin Saleh, Nandita Perumal et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2023

  • Authorship equity guidelines in global health journals

    Open AccessChris A Rees, Stephanie J Sirna et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    Background Thrombectomy for acute ischemic stroke treatment leads to improved outcomes, but many patients do not achieve a good outcome despite successful reperfusion. We determined predictors of poor outcome after successful thrombectomy (TICI 2b–3) with an emphasis on modifiable factors. Methods Patients from the randomized DEFUSE 3 trial who underwent thrombectomy with TICI 2b–3 revascularization were included. Primary outcome was a poor outco…

  • Cost-effectiveness of zinc supplementation for prevention of childhood diarrhoea in Tanzania

    Open AccessHappiness Pius Saronga, Karim Manji et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2022

    Objective: To assess the cost-effectiveness of prophylactic Zn supplementation for preventing diarrhoea in young children in Tanzania. Design: Cost-effectiveness analysis using decision-analytic modelling. Cost-effectiveness ratios were calculated as the incremental cost (2019 USD) per disability-adjusted life year (DALY) averted, from a societal perspective, and with a 3 % discount rate applied to future outcomes. Sensitivity analyses were perfo…

  • Where there is no local author

    Open AccessChris A Rees, Mohsin Ali et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    INTRODUCTION: Authorship parasitism (ie, no authors affiliated with the country in which the study took place) occurs frequently in research conducted in low-income and middle-income countries, despite published recommendations defining authorship criteria. The objective was to compare characteristics of articles exhibiting authorship parasitism in sub-Saharan Africa to articles with author representation from sub-Saharan African countries. METHO…

  • Maternal pesticide exposure and child neuro-development among smallholder tomato farmers in the southern corridor of Tanzania

    Open AccessPeter Chilipweli, Aiwerasia Vera Ngowi et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    The findings from this study have indicated that maternal pesticide exposure among farmworker residents in the SAGCOT area has a potential association with child developmental effect

  • Influence of gender norms in relation to child’s quality of care

    Open AccessDaima Bukini, Columba Mbekenga et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community Genetics2020

  • “Every Newborn-BIRTH” protocol

    Open AccessLouise T Day, Harriet Ruysen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2019

    BACKGROUND: - Birth Indicators Research Tracking in Hospitals (EN-BIRTH) study aims to validate selected newborn and maternal indicators for routine tracking of coverage and quality of facility-based care for use at district, national and global levels. METHODS: EN-BIRTH is an observational study including >20 000 facility births in three countries (Tanzania, Bangladesh and Nepal) to validate selected indicators. Direct clinical observation will …

  • Factors associated with the decline in under five diarrhea mortality in Tanzania from 1980-2015

    Open AccessHonorati Masanja, Pyande Mongi et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2019

    BACKGROUND: Tanzania has made great progress in reducing diarrhea mortality in under- five children. We examined factors associated with the decline and projected the impact of scaling up interventions or reducing risk factors on diarrhea deaths. METHODS: We reviewed economic, health, and diarrhea-related policies, reports and programs implemented during 1980 to 2015. We used the Lives Saved Tool to determine the percentage reduction in diarrhea-…

  • The effect of daily zinc and/or multivitamin supplements on early childhood development in Tanzania

    Open AccessLindsey M Locks, Karim Manji et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2016

    Impaired childhood development has lifelong consequences for educational attainment and wage-earning potential. Micronutrient supplements have the potential to improve development. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of daily zinc and/or multivitamin (vitamins C, E and B-complex) supplements on development among Tanzanian infants. In this randomized, 2 × 2 factorial, double-blind trial, 2400 infants were randomized to zinc (Zn…

  • Nutritional status and complementary feeding among HIV‐exposed infants

    Open AccessPili Kamenju, Enju Liu et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2016

    Complementary feeding is crucial for improving child survival and promoting growth and development, particularly among HIV-exposed children who have higher risk of morbidity and mortality than their un-exposed peers. This prospective study employed an infant and child feeding index (ICFI) to measure complementary feeding and determine its association with nutritional status among 2092 HIV-exposed infants followed from 6 to 24 months of age in Dar…

  • Post‐natal anaemia and iron deficiency in HIV‐infected women and the health and survival of their children

    Open AccessSheila Isanaka, Donna Spiegelman et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2012

    Prenatal iron supplementation may improve pregnancy outcomes and decrease the risk of child mortality. However, little is known about the importance of post-natal maternal iron status for child health and survival, particularly in the context of HIV infection. We examined the association of maternal anaemia and hypochromic microcytosis, an erythrocyte morphology consistent with iron deficiency, with child health and survival in the first two to f…