Browsing by Author "Sadock, Musa"

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    Eating a Ripe Banana with Its Skin On’: Health Education Campaigns against STDs and HIV/AIDS in Mbozi District, Tanzania, 1980s-2010
    (The African Anthropologist, 2012) Sadock, Musa
    Abstract This historical study assesses health education campaigns against sexually transmitted diseases including HIV/AIDS in Mbozi district, Tanzania, between 1980 and 2010. Archival and oral data collected in Mbozi from 2008 to 2010 reveal that the campaigns have not had the intended impact of preventing the spread of the diseases. This is in part because the campaigns do not take into account the prevailing socio-economic and cultural contexts. Nevertheless, there is an increase of public awareness of sexually transmitted diseases and a slight change of sexual behaviour. Thus, to improve on the current campaigns, the stakeholders who are involved in intervention campaigns against sexually transmitted diseases should take into account the socio-economic and cultural environment. Résumé Cette étude historique évalue les campagnes de sensibilisation contre les maladies sexuellement transmissibles, notamment le VIH/SIDA dans le district de Mbozi, en Tanzanie, entre 1980 et 2010. Les données d’archives et de sources orales recueillies à Mbozi de 2008 à 2010 révèlent que les campagnes n’ont pas eu l’impact escompté qui était de prévenir la propagation des maladies. Cela est en partie lié au fait que les campagnes ne prennent pas en compte les contextes socioéconomiques et culturels existants. Néanmoins, l’on observe une conscience croissante du publique vis-à-vis des maladies sexuellement transmissibles et un léger changement de *
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    The Maji Maji War and the Prevalence of Diseases in South-Eastern Tanzania, 1905-1910
    (Tanzania Zamani, 2010) Sadock, Musa
    The paper explores the role of Maji Maji War in creating conditions conducive to the emergence and spread of diseases in the South-eastern part of German East Africa (the present day Tanzania mainland) from 1905 to 1910. It has been found out that the war resulted in non-burial of the dead, movements of people, famine, depopulation, and the breakdown of traditional healing institutions. These conditions, in turn, exacerbated the spread and vulnerability of the residents of the region to diseases such as small pox, sexually transmitted diseases, diarrhoea, sleeping sickness and parasites such as jiggers. In reconstructing this history, secondary sources were used namely historical books, thesis, research papers and journal articles. In addition to the sources, ethnographic surveys and electronic sources were consulted. This study is significant in that it contributes to the growing body of works on wars and epidemics.