DC: Enable poor to get health services

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RC pleads for poor families on health services
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RUKWA Regional Commissioner, Ms Stella Manyanya, has directed district and municipal councils to allocate funds for assisting families too poor to contribute to the Community Health Fund access health services. The RC issued the directive on Tuesday in ...

 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...

East African Community Headquarters, Arusha, Tanzania: 28 May 2015:In its efforts  to achieve an AIDS-free generation, the East African Community (EAC) Secretariat in collaboration with  the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) launched a five-year project on Cross-Border Health Integrated Partnership (CB-HIPP) designed to extend integrated health services in strategic border areas and other transport corridor sites. The ceremonial launch took place yesterday at the EAC...

 NEWLY LAUNCHED EAC-USAID HEALTH PROJECT TO IMPROVE HEALTH SERVICES  ALONG CROSS BORDER SITES
East African Community Headquarters, Arusha, Tanzania: 28 May 2015: ​In its efforts  to achieve an AIDS-free generation, the East African Community (EAC) Secretariat in collaboration with  the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) launched a five-year project on Cross-Border Health Integrated Partnership (CB-HIPP) designed to extend integrated health services in strategic...

Uganda's minister of health says homosexuals will not be discriminated against when they require healthcare, despite a new anti-gay law.

Despite improved health services in the country, both child and maternal mortality is still high. One reason for this is lack of access to good health services or lack of requisite medical equipment and medicine, but another reason is poverty.

The health of our people is non-negotiable for the simple reason that medical care is a human right. That is why the people of this country were receiving free medical care even before independence--wherever and whenever it was available, that is

The existence and functioning of a complaint mechanism at any health service delivery point is one of the key prerequisites in improving health service delivery in Tanzania.

Well-off people in Tanzania and other developing countries will be taxed to fund universal health insurance for the poor who pay their hospital bills out-of-pocket, if a proposal by the United Nations launched here yesterday is adopted.