5 to scale the Kili for mum, child health

Youth out to scale Mt Kili in five days
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INTERNAL tourism got yet another boost as a group of youth from the Northern Zone regions initiated a campaign to scale Mount Kilimanjaro. Speaking at a flag-off event at the Kilimanjaro National Park (Kinapa) gate at Marangu on Tuesday, the chairman of ...

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>Although Tanzania has relatively made some progress in reducing under-five deaths -- thus meeting the Millennium Development Goal Four -- weak public and private health systems remain the biggest challenge.

One day before world leaders convened in New York this week for the launching of new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), global health experts were also meeting in Dar es Salaam—pondering on how the new goals could be of benefit to millions of babies who are born with birth-defects across the world.

>There is hope that a long-term family planning programme will be widely practised among women in the country.This is important because for a long time now, family planning has been undertaken by employing short-term methods like injection and pills that seem to be common among the health staff in both public and private health facilities.

NHIF pushes to improve mother, child health services in Rukwa
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THE National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) has dished out over 173m/- , which will be used to improve mother and child health services in Designated District Hospitals (DDHs) in Rukwa Region. NHIF Rukwa Regional Officer Ramadhani Mhina revealed this ...

GSK and Save the Children $1 million Healthcare Innovation Award continues to call for life-saving ideas for newborns and under-fives

GSK (http://www.gsk.com) and Save the Children continue to call for applications for their 2014 $1 million Healthcare Innovation Award, as previous winners attract interest and support from national governments to help improve survival rates of newborns and children under five in developing countries.

Six months after receiving a share of the 2013 Healthcare...

 Prof Japhet Killewo, a medical doctor and Epidemiologist from Muhimbili University, speaks to experts who convened in Dar es Salaam to share research findings and discuss meaningful policies to address maternal and newborn health in Tanzania. The third year dissemination workshop was sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and organized by partners within the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Muhimbili University, Johns Hopkins University and...