Hvidovre Hospital (HvH), Denmark

Enabling best possible childbirth care in Tanzania – The PartoMa Project

Research project Unsafe care at birth is a human rights violation negatively impacting gender equality. Globally, 300,000 women and 5 million babies die annually around birth. With proper care, most would survive. Therefore, clinical guidelines production has expande ... Midterm report: Since 2014, the PartoMa project (publichealth.ku.dk/partoma) has co-created and implemented simple and locally achievable clinical practice guidelines and associated training for childbirth care in Tanzania. It was initially a pilo ...
Period: 2019-04-1 to 2025-03-31 Countries: Tanzania Lead institution: University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark Partner institutions: State University of Zanzibar (SUZA), Tanzania Aga Khan University (AKU), Tanzania Comprehensive Community Based Rehabilitation Tanzania (CCBRT), Tanzania Free University Amsterdam (VU), The Netherlands Hvidovre Hospital (HvH), Denmark Project code: 18-08-KU Total grant: 11,999,203 DKK
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Improving Prevention and Diagnosis of Active Childhood TB in Tanzania

Research project Children are dying from tuberculosis, even though it is a disease, which can be prevented and cured. WHO estimates that up to 400.000 children a year die from TB yet children have been largely neglected in TB programmes. The reasons why children have ...The project has described the challenges and constraints of diagnosing childhood TB in a resource limited area with endemic TB and a high prevalence of malnutrition and HIV and has assessed the performance of Quantiferon-TB Gold In-Tube, a paediatric ...
Period: 2008-08-31 to 2012-12-31 Countries: Tanzania Lead institution: Muhimbili Medical Research Centre (NIMR), Tanzania Partner institutions: Hvidovre Hospital (HvH), Denmark Project code: 74-08-UHH Total grant: 3,640,906 DKK
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