EDITORIAL: Give preventive health care greater importance

>With  the advent of HIV/Aids in the early 1980s, there has been too much attention towards this scourge at the expense of virtually every other medical concern. As everybody, including policy makers, worried themselves sick about HIV/Aids, which affects “only” a couple of millions in Tanzania, a lot more millions people faced death from diabetes and all manner of cancers.

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Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

TheCitizen

16 Nov

Give education due importance: appeal

 Parents have been urged to put education for their children as number one priority when setting their budgets because that is what will serve as best inheritance to them

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

25 Aug

Why give medical care in orphanages

The strength of any society is very much reflected in the state of its children. The number of orphanages in Tanzania is increasing.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

26 Jan

EDITORIAL: Greater awareness will end women’s denigration

>If you educate a man, you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman, you educate the society, so goes the saying attributed to the Ghanaian scholar, Dr James Emmanuel Kwegyir-Aggrey, one of the 20th century’s greatest educators.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

31 Jan

Give donors a break and take care of your affairs

If we were to describe the African continent in brief, it would probably be “where there are trees but no builders.” It has plenty of human and natural resources, but the majority of its people languish in abject poverty.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

19 Sep

Lowassa for ‘free health care’

The Chadema presidential candidate, who is backed by the Defenders of the People’s Constitution (Ukawa), Edward Lowassa, has promised that his government will provide free medical services to elderly people and under five years old children.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

15 Dec

Toward availing health care for all in Africa

Health is widely considered to be a fundamental human right, yet the sad truth is that far too many people around the world still do not have access to basic health care. Millions of Africans in particular are unable to access or afford the services they need to survive and thrive without incurring financial hardship.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

19 Nov

Boost access to health care, govt urged

The out-of-pocket payment (OOP) system, which is mostly used by patients who are not covered by health insurance schemes, took centre stage at a recent national health conference in Dar es Salaam.

 

10 years ago

Michuzi

The Economist Health Care in Africa Summit 2014

 Katibu mkuu Wizara ya Afya na Ustawi wa Jamii Dkt. Donan Mmbando akiwa kwenye kipindi cha maswali na majibu toka kwa Vivek Muthu pembeni yake na maswali mengine toka kwa wadau waliohudhuria kwenye mkutano wa Afya wa Afrika unaoendelea jijini Dar es Salaam. Mmoja ya wadau akiuliza swali kwa Katibu mkuu Wizara ya Afya na Ustawi wa Jamii Dkt. Donan Mmbando. Wadau toka nchi mbalimbali duniani wakifuatilia kwa karibu yanayoendelea mkutanoni. Mkutano ukiendelea

 

5 years ago

BBC News

25 Feb

Health board cuts out-of-hours care at five centres

Health board cuts out-of-hours care at five centres  BBC News

 

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