Mwita Wambura

Biographic Data

ID7750403
NAMEMwita Wambura
GIVEN NAMESMwita
FAMILY NAMEWambura
SIGNATUREWAMBURA M
AFFILIATIONSNational Institute for Medical Research
ORCID0000-0002-9384-6712
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Cost-Effectiveness of a Digital Parenting Intervention for Reducing Violence and Related Health Burden Among Adolescents in Tanzania

    Open AccessAbigail Ornellas, Jonathan Menno Klapwijk et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2026

  • Reducing family and school-based violence at scale

    Open AccessJ M Lachman, Joyce Wamoyi et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    BACKGROUND: Parenting programmes, including those delivered in the Global South, are effective strategies to reduce violence against children (VAC). However, there is limited evidence of their impact when implemented at scale within routine delivery systems. This study aimed to address this gap by evaluating the real-world delivery of Parenting for Lifelong Health for Teens in Tanzania. METHODS: Participating parents/caregivers and their adolesce…

  • Optimising engagement in a digital parenting intervention to prevent violence against adolescents in Tanzania

    Open AccessRoselinde Janowski, Ohad Green et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    Pan African Clinical Trial Registry, PACTR202210657553944. Registered 11 October 2022, https://pactr.samrc.ac.za/TrialDisplay.aspx?TrialID=24051

  • Routine health check-ups for adolescents in Mwanza City, Tanzania

    Open AccessYovitha Sedekia, Gerry Mshana et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    Stakeholders were supportive of the proposed routine health check-ups for adolescents, recommending specific health conditions to be screened for in both community and school settings. Based on the above, we plan to conduct implementation research to determine the number of new treatable conditions detected, and the costs of offering such services. In the longer term, evaluation of their health impact and cost-effectiveness will be required to gu…

  • Female sex workers perspectives and concerns regarding HIV self-testing

    Open AccessSoori Nnko, Daniel Nyato et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    FSWs demonstrated high enthusiasm to use the HIVST once it becomes available. Expectations for increased confidentiality, autonomy, and reduced opportunity costs were among the leading factors that attracted FSWs to HIVST. The major obstacles to the acceptability of HIVST included fear of HIV reactive test and not trusting self-diagnoses. Our findings underscore the importance of providing adequate access to counselling and referral services in c…

  • Traditional male circumcision practices among the Kurya of North-eastern Tanzania and implications for national programmes

    Gerry Mshana, Mwita Wambura et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2011

    The World Health Organisation and the Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS recommend male circumcision (MC) as an additional intervention against HIV infection. Various sub-Saharan African countries are at different stages of rolling out MC programmes. Despite initial fears, studies conducted among traditionally non-circumcising communities in Africa have shown that MC is widely accepted as a biomedical intervention. However, little is known on…

  • Acceptability of medical male circumcision in the traditionally circumcising communities in Northern Tanzania

    Open AccessMwita Wambura, J R Mwanga et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2011

    There is a shift of preference from traditional male circumcision to medical male circumcision in this traditionally circumcising population. However, this preference has not changed the circumcision practices in the communities because of the community social pressure. Male circumcision national program should take advantage of this preference of medical male circumcision by introducing safe and affordable circumcision services and mobilising co…

  • Policy environment and male circumcision for HIV prevention

    Open AccessJ R Mwanga, Mwita Wambura et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2011

    Findings from the situation analysis in Tanzania have shown that despite the absence of a specific policy on MC, basic elements of enabling policy environment at national, regional, district and community levels are in place for the implementation of MC scale up programme