United Republic of Tanzania News

One of the areas that needs to catch up in the fight against neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) is laboratory services.  A lack of investment, insufficient technical assistance and a shortage of diagnostic tools pose a challenge to the scale-up of interventions, particularly in WHO’s African Region.

This year, WHO joined the global community to commemorate the Fifth UN Global Road Safety Week marked on 6 – 12 May 2019 with the aim to acknowledge that strong leadership is needed to advance road safety in countries and communities and achieve related Sustainable Development Goal and other global targets. The theme was  leadership for road safety highlighting the fact that most effective leaders are those who #SpeakUp for road safety and take action.

21-26 January 2019, Shanghai and Beijing China – The WHO Representative, Dr Tigest Menegstu led the country delegation to a workshop on ‘the China-Tanzania Malaria Prevention and Control Demonstration Project, ‘in Shanghai from the 21-24^th January 2019 and a high level Coordination Management Committee (CMC) Meeting’ in Beijing on the 26^th January 2019 to finalize the protocol for phase two of the The China-UK-Tanzania partnership Pilot Project.