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Aiwerasia Vera Ngowi
Researcher at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences
Publications - 24
Citations - 965
Aiwerasia Vera Ngowi is an academic researcher from Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poison control & Tanzania. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 24 publications receiving 777 citations. Previous affiliations of Aiwerasia Vera Ngowi include University of Tampere.
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Smallholder vegetable farmers in Northern Tanzania: Pesticides use practices, perceptions, cost and health effects
TL;DR: Pesticide-related health symptoms that were associated with pesticides use included skin problems and neurological system disturbances (dizziness, headache), which will contribute to the reformation of pesticide policies for safe and effective use of pesticides by smallholder farmers in Tanzania.
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Farmers' knowledge, practices and injuries associated with pesticide exposure in rural farming villages in Tanzania
TL;DR: A high potential for pesticide exposure in the selected community in rural Tanzania, a high frequency of self-reported APP and poor recording in hospital records is found.
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Pesticide Exposure and Health Problems Among Female Horticulture Workers in Tanzania
TL;DR: Factors that contribute to the increased health effects among women working in the horticultural industry and how these effects relate to pesticide exposure are identified.
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Acute health effects of organophosphorus pesticides on Tanzanian small-scale coffee growers.
Aiwerasia Vera Ngowi,David N. Maeda,Timo Partanen,Timo Partanen,Timo Partanen,Michael P. Sanga,Godson Mbise +6 more
TL;DR: Experience suggests that occupational poisoning remains a potential serious danger in coffee cultivation in Tanzania, and the fact that only moderately toxic OP pesticides were used may indicate that toxicity was not sufficiently high to cause depression.
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In-car particulate matter exposure across ten global cities
Prashant Kumar,Sarkawt Hama,Thiago Assis Rodrigues Nogueira,Rana Alaa Abbass,Veronika S. Brand,Maria de Fátima Andrade,Araya Asfaw,Kosar Hikmat Hama Aziz,Shi-Jie Cao,Ahmed S. El-Gendy,Shariful Islam,Farah Jeba,Mukesh Khare,Simon Mamuya,Jenny Carolina Martínez,Ming-rui Meng,Lidia Morawska,Adamson S Muula,S.M. Shiva Nagendra,Aiwerasia Vera Ngowi,Khalid M. Omer,Yris Olaya,Philip Osano,Abdus Salam +23 more
TL;DR: It was concluded that car-users in the least affluent cities experienced disproportionately higher in-car PM2.5 exposures, indicating filter effectiveness in removing coarse particles and a need for filters that limit the ingress of fine particles.