April 2021, Morogoro: Tanzania marked the African Immunization Week on 26-30 April with a call to spike efforts from national level to family level to ensure all eligible children and adolescents are vaccinated. …
Read more25 April 2021, Arusha: Tanzania has launched a new intervention aiming to eliminate malaria in locations with low risk of malaria. Malaria Case Based Surveillance (mCBS) was launched by the Minister of Health Commun…
Read more19 April 2021, Kigoma Region: In a bid to contribute to preparedness of Kigoma region against epidemic prone diseases and general improvement of health services the region, the World Health Organization donated an a…
Read moreIn Kwa Bada village in north-eastern Tanzania, community health volunteer Sylvia Petro is hunting an ancient, endemic disease and shining a light on the devastating stigma that surrounds it.
Read moreEfforts to end female genital mutilation are gradually bearing fruit in Tanzania. The prevalence of the ritual that marks a rite of passage among some communities has now fallen to around 10% from 18% in 1996.
Read moreMalaria is an abiding threat to Amina Yusuf Mkwanywe, a resident of Ikwiriri in Tanzania’s southern Rufiji district. “I really have to be vigilant all the time to be free of malaria,” she says.
Read moreIn a bid to increase access to quality healthcare services, Zanzibar’s Ministry of Health recently launched its digital health strategic plan. The five year (2021 - 2025) strategic plan was launched by the Minister for H…
Read moreEarly in September, the Ministry of Health in Tanzania Mainland embarked on finalizing development of its National Multi-Sectoral Cholera Prevention and Control Plan (NMCPCP). Adopting a multi-sectoral approach to …
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