United Republic of Tanzania News

Dar es Salaam - Active participation of the local communities is key to promoting community ownership and commitment towards addressing negative practices that favour the spread of diseases. World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with UNICEF and the Ministry of Health are working together to empower key community groups living in affected regions by the recent cholera outbreak in Tanzania with appropriate sanitation and hygienic skills and advocacy messages to prevent and respond to the outbreak.

To deliver on its core mandate as the UN lead agency for health, WHO plays essential roles in supporting countries to prepare for, respond to and recover from disease outbreaks and emergencies with public health consequences. This critical role was boosted recently with funding support from ECHO, which enabled WHO to reach more than 166,637 eligible persons with vaccination against COVID-19 in Arusha region of the United Republic of Tanzania significantly raising the Arusha regional coverage from 55% in June 2022 to 102% in January 2023.

Manyara - A big gray cloud dims the sun for a small crowd seated on chairs arranged on a grass clearing beside a hospital ward and long, roofed corridor. Officials from the district, Ward and village seat on row of chairs on the corridor, facing the crowd of mothers who nurse infants and children on their laps.

A few men dot the mainly ladies gathering. Behind the small crowd an earth-colored tent is pitched. On its gable a handwritten sign announces the occasion: Vaccination week, Ayalagaya Ward.

Manyara- Under the theme of 'The Big Catch-Up', Tanzania, with the technical and financial support of World Health Organization (WHO) and partners launched a 7-day vaccination campaign, with emphasis on integration of COVID 19 Vaccination with routine immunization. The campaign aims at accelerating progress  in routine immunization for children while sustaining current momentum for COVID-19 vaccination especially for the elderly, health care workers and people living with comorbidities. 

Dar es Salaam - As the China-Tanzania Malaria Demonstration Project ends, a promise of a scalable intervention that can effectively reduce burden of the disease in moderate and high prevalence areas in ushered in.  During the project summation meeting in Dar es Salaam in March, the Government of Tanzania expressed willingness to replicate the approach of the demonstration project in areas with similar contexts.

Simiyu  - Tanzania marked the World TB Day in 2023, with the launch of the Multisectoral Accountability Framework to end TB (MAF TB) in Simiyu region, Northern central Tanzania. The high-level launch was graced by the Prime Minister, Kassim Majaliwa and attended by the health minister and partners involved in TB response in Tanzania.

Tanzania- As COVID-19 vaccine delivery enters a phase of integration with routine services, Tanzania has emerged the best performing among 34 African countries for concerted support by the COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Partnership. From a poor coverage of 2.8% of the total population by mid-January 2022, Tanzania recorded an exponential increase to 51% as at April 2023.

Manyara - The 2023 Africa Vaccination Week was dubbed “The Big Catch Up” as a clarion call to bridge the gap of the rollout of routine immunization for children due to the staggering statistics which revealed that essential immunization levels decreased in over 100 countries, leading to rising outbreaks of measles, diphtheria, polio, and yellow fever.

Dar es salaam – Call Centers are among the most commonly used tools by health authorities in the response public health emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic. The reason is three-fold, first, they establish a direct link between at-risk populations and emergency responders. Secondly, they improve responders’ understanding of people’s perceptions, attitudes and concerns. Finally, they provide public health advice, counselling and/or referral to other services.