Opportunities for intervention: stroke treatments, disability and mortality in urban Tanzania.

Objective: Given the high post-stroke mortality and disability and paucity of data on the quality of stroke care in Sub-Saharan Africa, we sought to characterize the implementation of stroke-focused treatments and 90-day outcomes of neuroimaging-confirmed stroke patients at the largest referral hospital in Tanzania.

Design: Prospective cohort study.

Setting: Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH) in Dar es Salaam, July 2016-March 2017.

Post-stroke social networks, depressive symptoms, and disability in Tanzania: A prospective study.

Background Evidence suggests that social networks improve functional recovery after stroke, but this work has not been extended to low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Post-stroke depression interferes with functional outcome but is understudied in LMICs. Aims To determine the relationships between social networks, disability, and depressive symptoms in patients surviving 90-days post-stroke in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.