United Republic of Tanzania News

Dar es Salaam - This week, technical experts from the Ministry of Finance and Planning, Revenue Authorities, Ministries of Health in Tanzania Mainland and Zanzibar and WHO Country Office are meeting to deep dive into tobacco taxation - the most effective and most cost-effective measure to reduce tobacco consumption.

Kigoma - Kigoma region is among the five regions with the highest number of maternal deaths in the country. For the year 2022, the region reported 102 maternal deaths and 757 perinatal deaths. In the past three years maternal deaths fluctuated from 110 deaths in 2020, down to 75 in 2021 to 102 in 2022.

Dar es Salaam - Today, twelve (12) African countries of the Global Alliance to End AIDS in children announced their commitments and plans to end AIDS among children in the first Ministerial Conference of the Alliance since its announcement at the International AIDS Conference in Montreal, Canada in August 2022.

The event was also an official launch of the eight—year alliance that is motivated by the inequality in access and quality of service among children compared to adults living with HIV.

Arusha - Africa must rapidly accelerate efforts to improve access to, and the quality of health services for children to save more children’s lives and achieve sustainable development.

Prompted by the alarming limited progress, WHO with UNICEF and USAID brought together experts in child health in Arusha from 14-17 February to rethink and devise sustainable solutions to barriers that are holding back progress for the health and development of children.

Dar es Salaam - In a bid to strengthen capacity for crisis preparedness and response in the African continent, the World Health Organization is collaborating with Member States to strengthen the response infrastructure.

Zanzibar - The prevalence rate of malaria in Zanzibar is currently below one percent--the lowest in Tanzania and in the Eastern and Central Africa. The result is one the best news from the review conducted in September 2022 by different stakeholders, including Government and development partners to document implementation of the Zanzibar Malaria Strategic Plan (MSP).

Zanzibar - In a bid to maximize protection of the population from outbreaks using scarce resources, Zanzibar has successfully piggy backed measles and rubella vaccination and vitamin A drops administration on a scheduled fourth round of polio vaccination campaign.

Lindi Region - The World AIDS Day was commemorated nationally in Tanzania on the 1st of December 2022 with calls to end the HIV epidemic by 2030 by equalizing access to HIV prevention and treatment services and increasing domestic funding for the HIV and AIDS response.

Graced by the President of Tanzania, Honourable Dr. Samia Suluhu Hassan, the climax of the commemoration took place in Lindi town in Southern Tanzania and converged myriad of national and international actors under the theme “EQUALIZE’.

Tanganyika District, Katavi Region - Cholera epidemic is a recurrent disease in developing countries with poor environmental sanitation and inadequate supply of potable water. Wrong perception and myths surrounding the real causes of cholera disease can hinder acceptance and accessibility to launch effective operational response to affected communities during an outbreak.

Dar es Salaam: The Ministry of Health with technical and financial support from the World Health Organization is rolling out series of readiness trainings on Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) for 3, 757 frontline health workers. Hosted in Dar es Salaam, the training gathers an unprecedented big number of health professionals and allied staff from public and private health facilities from the five (5) municipals.