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

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.

Management of childhood diarrhoea by pharmacists and parents: is Britain lagging behind the Third World?

Objective: To investigate the role of community pharmacists in providing advice and treatment for children with diarrhoea; to investigate mothers' responses to diarrhoea in their children.

Design: Cross sectional questionnaire study of a random selection of community pharmacists and of mothers attending child health clinics. Pharmacists were interviewed and given a questionnaire and a separate group was visited by a researcher posing as a parent; mothers were interviewed at the clinic.

Tetanus neonatorum--experience with intrathecal serotherapy at Muhimbili Medical Centre, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

In an attempt to lower the mortality rate of neonatal tetanus a study was undertaken to determine whether intrathecal serotherapy influences mortality from this disease. Sixty-six babies with tetanus neonatorum were studied. The mortality rate among babies who received intrathecal anti-tetanus serum (ATS) was 45% compared with 82% in the control group given intramuscular ATS (P congruent to 0.