Tanzania has experienced fundamental policy shifts during the last forty to fifty years. This
included experimentation with reforms based on socialism and neoliberalism, and involved …

Indigenous populations worldwide endure disparities in access to biomedical health care.
This article suggests that institutional bureaucracy is an important and underexamined …

Biomedical Entanglements is an ethnographic study of the Giri people of Papua New
Guinea, focusing on the indigenous population's interaction with modern medicine. In her …

During the COVID-19 outbreak–a paradigmatic global health challenge–multiple African
countries, including Tanzania, mobilised indigenous forms of healing as both preventive and …

Extractivism is so often characterized as resource extractivism–the exploitation of a
community's natural resources for economic gain. However, when we think about the …

Set in Tanga, a city on the Tanzanian Swahili coast, Dominik Mattes examines the
implementation of antiretroviral HIV-treatment (ART) in the area, exploring the manifold …

Birth registration is considered a basic human right, established by the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Birth certificates provide an essential form of official …

Background Little is known about the contributions of faith-based organisations (FBOs) to
health systems in Africa. In the specialist area of eye health, international and domestic …

This dissertation uses the concept of precarity to frame the lived experience of uncertainty
among patients and caregivers whose lives and livelihoods depend on the volatile health …

Over the last decades, global and national health efforts to reduce maternal mortality in
African countries have focused on increasing women's access to biomedical maternal …