EDITORIAL : Ensure ample funds for good health services

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.

 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...

The demand for a new media law, which should effectively repeal the much-criticised 1976 Media Act is an old song. Now ideally, the report that the government will table in the ongoing Parliament sitting, two media Bills to lead to a new Media Law, should have been received with a sigh of relief. But it has only created tension.

For low income earners, who comprise the majority of working Tanzanians and small scale entrepreneurs, it is virtually impossible for one to save over time and accumulate enough to do anything substantive for oneself or the family and hence, the essence of loans.

House team touts more funds for social services
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IN order to improve the health of Tanzanians, the government has been urged to allocate 15 per cent of its annual budget to the health sector, the parliamentary committee on Social Services said on Thursday. Reading the committee's 2014/2015 report in ...

>It is pointless to believe that a time will come when factional wars will not rear their ugly head in the run-up to a Simba or Young Africans general election--not unless there is a complete change of attitude by members of the two clubs in general and club leaders in particular.

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