Janneth Mghamba

Dados Biográficos

ID9064763
NOMEJanneth Mghamba
PRENOMESJanneth
SOBRENOMEMghamba
ASSINATURAMGHAMBA J
AFILIAÇÕESMinistry of Health and Social Welfare
ORCID0000-0002-8258-039X
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS6
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR6
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2015
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2023
ÍNDICE H0

  • The use of innovative approaches to strengthen health system resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessJanneth Mghamba, Emily Gilmour et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    This article is part of the Research Topic ‘ Health Systems Recovery in the Context of COVID-19 and Protracted Conflict ’. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the vulnerabilities and limitations of many health systems and underscored the need for strengthening health system resilience to make and sustain progress toward Universal Health Coverage (UHC), global health security and healthier populations in tandem. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic,…

  • Implementing Joint External Evaluations of the International Health Regulations (2005) capacities in all countries in the WHO African region

    Open AccessIbrahima-Soce Fall, Roland Kimbi Wango et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    Following the West Africa Ebola virus disease outbreak (2013–2016), the Joint External Evaluation (JEE) is one of the three voluntary components recommended by the WHO for evaluating the International Health Regulations (2005) capacities in countries. Here, we share experience implementing JEEs in all 47 countries in the WHO African region. In February 2016, the United Republic of Tanzania (Mainland) was the first country globally to conduct a JE…

  • The role of community pharmacies in early detection of suspected Covid-19 cases in 2020

    Open AccessHussein Mohamed, Diana Faini et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    Tanzania reported its first COVID-19 case on 16 March 2020. We conducted event-based surveillance of COVID-19 suspect cases among pharmacy clients presenting with respiratory symptoms and influenza-like illness to increase early and rapid detection of COVID-19 cases and mitigate transmission. We conveniently sampled 103 pharmacies from Dar es Salaam, the epicentre for the COVID-19 pandemic in Tanzania at the time. Between 23 April 2020 and 18 May…

  • Etiologies of influenza-like illness and severe acute respiratory infections in Tanzania, 2017–2019

    Open AccessMaria Ezekiely Kelly, Radhika Gharpure et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    In 2016, Tanzania expanded sentinel surveillance for influenza-like illness (ILI) and severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) to include testing for non-influenza respiratory viruses (NIRVs) and additional respiratory pathogens at 9 sentinel sites. During 2017–2019, respiratory specimens from 2730 cases underwent expanded testing: 2475 specimens (90.7%) were tested using a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-developed assay co…

  • Ethical issues in intervention studies on the prevention and management of diabetes and hypertension in sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessElizabeth Shayo, Elizabeth H Shayo et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    Conducting intervention studies in Africa, where medicines supply for chronic conditions is inequitable and patchy, raises major ethical issues. \n \nHere we discuss what should the ethical approach be for a research programme in terms of provision of a steady and sustainable supply of medicines for patients with diabetes and hypertension

  • Birth prevalence of selected external structural birth defects at four hospitals in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 2011–2012

    Open AccessRogath Kishimba, Rogath Saika Kishimba et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2015

    BACKGROUND: 94% of all birth defects (BD) and 95% of deaths due to the BD occur in low and middle income countries, many of which are preventable. In Tanzania, there is currently a paucity of BD data necessary to develop data informed prevention activities. METHODS: A cross-sectional analysis was conducted of deliveries identified with BD in the labor ward registers at four Dar es Salaam hospitals between October, 2011 and February, 2012. The bir…