Prevalence and outcome of HIV infected children admitted in a tertiary hospital in Northern Tanzania.

Background: Provider Initiated Testing and Counseling (PITC) among hospitalized children have shown to increase the probability of identifying HIV-infected children and hence be able to link them to HIV care. We aimed at determining the prevalence, clinical characteristics and outcome of HIV-infected children admitted at Bugando Medical Centre (BMC) after active provision of PITC services.

Methods: A cross-sectional study with follow up at three months post enrollment was done.

Implications of power imbalance in antenatal care seeking among pregnant adolescents in rural Tanzania: A qualitative study.

Background: Adolescent girls (10-19 years) are at increased risk of morbidity and mortality from pregnancy and childbirth complications, compared with older mothers. Low and middle-income countries, including Tanzania, bear the largest proportion of adolescent perinatal deaths. Few adolescent girls in Tanzania access antenatal care at health facilities, the reasons for which are poorly understood.

Rater training for standardised assessment of Objective Structured Clinical Examinations in rural Tanzania.

Objectives: To describe a simulation-based rater training curriculum for Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) for clinician-based training for frontline staff caring for mothers and babies in rural Tanzania.

Background: Rater training for OSCE evaluation is widely embraced in high-income countries but not well described in low-income and middle-income countries. Helping Babies Breathe, Essential Care for Every Baby and Bleeding after Birth are standardised training programmes that encourage OSCE evaluations.