Kilombero Valley
Modelling Environmental Attitudes of the Users of Kilombero Valley Wetlands, Tanzania
... the Kilombero Valley wetlands beneficiaries since the land and landscape (the valley and its catchment areas) was before used for other economic activities such as fishing, crop cultivation, ...
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Off-farm Employment and Income Poverty in Favourable Agro-climatic Areas of Tanzania: Evidence from Kilombero Valley
... Income poverty in Tanzania as elsewhere in developing countries is predominantly a rural phenomenon and affects largely households relying on subsistence farming. This is despite the fact that poverty reduction ...
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Increasing role of Anopheles funestus and Anopheles arabiensis in malaria transmission in the Kilombero Valley, Tanzania
... Kilombero Valley in southern Tanzania has been sub- ject to a large number of studies on malaria epidemi- ology, dating back many years, with malaria parasite prevalence rates of up to 70% and an ...
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A crossover study to evaluate the diversion of malaria vectors in a community with incomplete coverage of spatial repellents in the Kilombero Valley, Tanzania
... Background: Malaria elimination is unlikely to occur if vector control efforts focus entirely on transmission occurring indoors without addressing vectors that bite outdoors and outside sleeping hours. Additional control ...
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Traditional knowledge on wild and cultivated plants in the Kilombero Valley (Morogoro Region, Tanzania)
... For years, local healers could bypass the restrictions for access to National Parks, but given the increasingly strict rules, they have lately been forced to change their places of collection with a serious impact on ...
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Over diagnosis of malaria by microscopy in the Kilombero Valley, Southern Tanzania: an evaluation of the utility and cost effectiveness of rapid diagnostic tests
... the Kilombero Valley, where only P ...the Kilombero Valley and follow-up monitoring cases would certainly improve the quality of life of people living in this malaria-endemic ...
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Assessing water, sanitation and hygiene practices associated with diarrhea prevalence among households’ members in flood prone areas along kilombero valley
... This study documents WASH practices in flood prone areas and their association with diarrhea prevalence. The results particularly involved household drinking water treating and storage, sanitation status, liquid waste ...
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Investigating associations between biting time in the malaria vector Anopheles arabiensis Patton and single nucleotide polymorphisms in circadian clock genes: support for sub structure among An arabiensis in the Kilombero valley of Tanzania
... the Kilombero Valley, indicating this species ex- ists in genetically distinct populations between villages situated only 40 km apart ...the Kilombero Valley were predicted to exist within a ...
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Antenatal care in practice: an exploratory study in antenatal care clinics in the Kilombero Valley, south eastern Tanzania
... The findings of this exploratory study in four rural ANC clinics in south-eastern Tanzania confirm evidence from previous studies on poor quality of ANC provision in Tanzania and other countries [14,15,17-20,22,24,39]. ...
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Community perceptions on outdoor malaria transmission in Kilombero Valley, Southern Tanzania
... in Kilombero Valley to promote use of bed nets, with the distribution of subsidized bed nets through the KINET project under the slogan “Zui- aMbu” ...
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Malaria risk and access to prevention and treatment in the paddies of the Kilombero Valley, Tanzania
... The seasonal movement of people to distant field sites is a prevailing pattern in the Kilombero Valley of Tanzania, and a major determinant of the lives of entire households. To which extent this pattern is ...
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Cost sharing strategies combining targeted public subsidies with private sector delivery achieve high bednet coverage and reduced malaria transmission in Kilombero Valley, southern Tanzania
... Other than bednets, closed eaves and window screening, almost no additional personal or household protection measures were used in the sampled houses and these measures had no detectable influence on indoor mos- quito ...
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Decreased availability of antimalarials in the private sector following the policy change from chloroquine to sulphadoxine pyrimethamine in the Kilombero Valley, Tanzania
... in Kilombero than in Ulanga District, and the increase varied also considerably between the two districts: The number of general shops stocking drugs increased 4% in Ulanga and 23% in ...in Kilombero but ...
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The combined effect of determinants on coverage of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria during pregnancy in the Kilombero Valley, Tanzania
... Analysis of IPTp delivery by women’s gestational age showed that the timing of the IPTp delivery was in accordance with the restrictive IPTp guidelines Table 2: most women received IPTp [r] ...
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Levels of livelihood outcomes among smallholder sugarcane outgrowers in morogoro region, Tanzania
... The mean score on the livelihood outcomes index was found to be 1.983, which was at a low level. These results imply that, generally, smallholder farmers in Kilombero valley were categorized in the low ...
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Pedological Characterization of Some Typical Alluvial Soils of Kilombero District, Tanzania
... the valley comprise alluvial materials deposited by floods, which occur during rainy ...in Kilombero, Tanzania [5, 6] and this is contributed by continuous cropping without addition of adequate external ...
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Local Knowledge on the Influence of Land Use/Cover Changes and Conservation Threats on Avian Community in the Kilombero Wetlands, Tanzania
... the Kilombero Valley Floodplain a Ramsar site since 25 th April, 2002 ...wetland valley in ...areas. Kilombero valley floodplain has the advantage of collecting water from its diverse ...
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Geographic coincidence of increased malaria transmission hazard and vulnerability occurring at the periphery of two Tanzanian villages
... most likely related to the ephemeral nature of larval habitats that changed drastically throughout the year. In the Kilombero Valley, the occurrence of An. gambiae s.l. larval sites is closely related to ...
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Bird species composition and diversity in habitats with different disturbance histories at Kilombero Wetland, Tanzania
... to Kilombero wetland [16, ...At Kilombero grasslands, it could be that other ecological factors including the availability of variety of foraging sites determines the abundance and evenness of bird species ...
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Genetic Diversity of Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.) Accession in Kenya Gene Bank Based on Simple Sequence Repeat Markers
... Increased agricultural production is an urgent issue. Projected global population is 9 million people by mid of this century. Estimation projects death of 1 million people for lack of food quality (micronutrient deficit) ...
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