Effectiveness of instructional videos for enhancing healthcare provider competencies for hypertension management - a pre-post study in primary healthcare settings, Tanzania.

Background: Inadequate adherence to hypertension (HT) clinical standards by healthcare providers is one of the major barriers for HT management. We examined the effectiveness of four short instructional training videos on HT management.

Methods: Eighteen primary health care facilities were randomly selected using systematic sampling from five districts in the Dar es Salaam region, Tanzania.

Patient and healthcare provider perspectives on adherence with antihypertensive medications: an exploratory qualitative study in Tanzania.

Background: Poor medication adherence is an extraordinarily common problem worldwide that contributes to inadequate control of many chronic diseases, including Hypertension (HT). Globally, less than 14% of the estimated 1.4 billion patients with HT achieve optimal control.

PA32 Family centred health care: a palliative care approach to engage communities to address the burden of hiv in tanzania abstract.

Background: Tanzania is one of the countries most devastated by HIV and AIDS in the sub Saharan Africa. The Government of Tanzania has called for a community participation to address the burden of HIV in Tanzania(1) however the uptake of this call has been minimal. This paper intends to describe the role of Palliative Medicine in engaging communities to address burden of HIV in Tanzania.

OA60 Public health and palliative care mix; a ccpmedicine approach to reverse the overgrowing burden of non-communicable diseases in tanzania.

: Outline of the Talk: The global prevalence of non-communicable diseases has increased persistently affecting developed and developing world. In 2008 alone 14 million premature deaths were reported globally and it is projected to reach 52 million by 2030. Diagnosis of NCDs in many of the developing countries [including Tanzania] is often made late while the disease progression advances leaving a very limited chance for interventions to yield good health outcomes.