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Tanzania has made considerable progress towards reducing childhood mortality, achieving a 57% decrease between 1980 and 2011. This epidemiological transition will cause a reduction in the contribution of infectious diseases to childhood mortality and increase in contribution from non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Haemoglobinopathies are amongst the most common childhood NCDs, with sickle cell disease (SCD) being the commonest haemoglobinopathy in Africa. In Tanzania, 10 313 children with SCD ...
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- Tropical Medicine and International Health Journal website
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- 20
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- 2
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- 184–187
- Publication date:
- 2015-02-05
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1365-3156
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1360-2276
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© 2014 The Authors. Tropical Medicine and International Health Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd
This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Health policy for sickle cell disease in Africa: experience from Tanzania on interventions to reduce under-five mortality.
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