Mob justice in Tanzania: a medico-social problem.

Objective: To investigate the magnitude of mob justice and associated factors.

Background: Mob justice is a social and public health problem that has grown in Tanzania in recent decades that has negative effects on social and health of the country, communities, and families.

Materials And Methods: A four-year autopsy study was conducted at the Department of Pathology, MUCHS.

Neuropathology of human immunodeficiency virus infection: a forensic autopsy study in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.

The objective of this study was to examine the neuropathological changes in the brain of patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the Tanzanian capital Dar Es Salaam, and investigate whether the prevalence of different forms of HIV-related neuropathology varies from other countries. The subjects were patients with risk factors for HIV infection in whom forensic autopsies were performed between 1997 and 1999. In Dar Es Salaam, forensic autopsy constitutes more than 90% of all autopsies, because hospital autopsy is limited due to socio-cultural and religious reasons.

Fatal intussusception in infancy: an experience in forensic autopsy.

Intussusception, although a common cause of pediatric surgical emergencies, is a rarely fatal condition. A 7-month-old infant who was discovered in her cot was unresponsive and pronounced dead after 2 h of uneventful cardiopulmonary resuscitation in an emergency hospital. Forensic autopsy which was performed in order to clarify the circumstances surrounding the death revealed intussusceptions at two sites of the ileum.

Neuropathological diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease in forensic autopsy of elderly persons with fatal accident.

Cognitive dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease may lead to accidental deaths in the elderly. Neuropathological diagnosis of the disease is, therefore, an important issue in forensic autopsy to determine the causal relation to accidents. To evaluate the suitability of the current histopathological diagnostic criteria for Alzheimer's disease by Khachaturian and Mirra et al.