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.

Predictors and outcome of first line treatment failure among under-five children with community acquired severe pneumonia at Bugando Medical Centre, Mwanza, Tanzania: A prospective cohort study.

Background: Despite recent advances in management and preventive strategies, high rates of first line antibiotics treatment failure and case fatality for Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia (SCAP) continue to occur in children in low and middle-income countries. This study aimed to identify the predictors and outcome of first line antibiotics treatment failure among children under-five years of age with SCAP admitted at Bugando Medical Centre (BMC) in Mwanza, Tanzania.

Methods: The study involved under-five children admitted with SCAP, treated with first line antibiotics as recommended by WHO.

Adenovirus Infection Is Predicted by Prolonged Duration of Diarrhea among Rotavirus-Vaccinated Children below Five Years of Age in Mwanza, Tanzania.

Diarrhea is the commonest cause of morbidity and mortality in many resource-limited countries including Tanzania among children below five years of age. A significant number of diarrhea cases associated with severe dehydration are still being reported among children despite five years of rotavirus vaccine implementation in Tanzania necessitating the need to investigate other causes of diarrhea in this population. This study is aimed at determining the prevalence of human adenovirus infection and associated factors among rotavirus-vaccinated children with acute diarrhea in Mwanza, Tanzania.

Very severe anemia and one year mortality outcome after hospitalization in Tanzanian children: A prospective cohort study.

Background: Africa has the highest rates of child mortality. Little is known about outcomes after hospitalization for children with very severe anemia.

Objective: To determine one year mortality and predictors of mortality in Tanzanian children hospitalized with very severe anemia.