EDITORIAL: Maintain progress on Malaria

Efforts by health authorities and other stakeholders to contain malaria are laudable, although we still have a long way to go to eradicate this killer.  We still need to lay more emphasis on programmes that focus on reliable malaria diagnosis and treatment and prevention using mosquito nets and insecticides.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

TheCitizen

29 Dec

EDITORIAL: Promising progress in anti-poaching efforts

>Reports that concerted wildlife conservation efforts are showing signs of success are good news indeed as the year draws to a close.  It will be recalled that Tanzania has for a long time been in the international spotlight for the wanton slaughter of wildlife, particularly elephants, in its national parks, game reserves and other protected areas.   The country was in the headlines for all the wrong reasons.

 

9 years ago

Michuzi

TANZANIA AND U.S. CELEBRATE SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS IN THE FIGHT AGAINST MALARIA AFTER 10 YEARS OF U.S. GOVERNMENT INVESTMENT IN TANZANIA

In order to eliminate malaria carrying mosquitoes, the USAID supported Tanzania Vector Control Scale-Up Project in partnership with the malaria control programs in Tanzania and Zanzibar implemented indoor residual spraying in 28 districts, covering a cumulative 5.9 million households in the Lake Zone and Zanzibar.
On Tuesday, December 15, 2015, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Government of Tanzania, and RTI International convened at the Hyatt Regency...

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

25 Jul

EDITORIAL: Govt, wananchi alliance crucial in malaria fight

At national level, we should reflect on how effectively we are tackling malaria, which kills an estimated 60,000 Tanzanians annually   (80 per cent of whom are children aged below five), and accounts for about 40 per cent of all outpatient admissions.

 

10 years ago

Dewji Blog

13 Nov

Novartis and Malaria No More help fulfill malaria treatment goal in Zambia by raising funds for three million treatments through Power of One

-Power of One campaign, supported by exclusive treatment sponsor Novartis, raises funds for three million treatments for children with malaria

-Novartis associates rallied behind Power of One to fund close to 500,000 antimalarial treatments for Zambia

-Company reaches delivery landmark with 700 million antimalarial treatments supplied without profit in 60 malaria-endemic countries since 2001

Novartis (http://www.novartis.com) announced today that, through Power of One, enough funds have...

 

10 years ago

Michuzi

24 Apr

Roll Back Malaria Partnership launches Global Call to Action to increase coverage of preventive treatment for malaria during pregnancy throughout sub-Saharan Africa

 

11 years ago

Michuzi

Malaria Course Ifakara 2014 (English) Capacity Building Course in Malaria Control Programs, with a focus on e-learning September 14th to October 11th 2014

Organised jointly by the Tanzanian Training Centre for International Health, Ifakara, Tanzania, and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute with the financial support of the Impact malaria, a Sanofi Access to Medicines program and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, the Malaria course is a tutorial that is aimed at strengthening competence of researchers, public health personnel and care givers to fight Malaria in Africa. Participants are taught how to conduct...

 

10 years ago

Daily News

22 Oct

Let us maintain our peace

Let us maintain our peace
Daily News
IT takes decades to build a peaceful country; but all that effort could take only days to wreck it. There are many examples to prove this. Shortly before 1966, Africa had impressed upon the world as a bastion of peace in a global setting that had seen the onset ...

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

01 Oct

Yanga, Azam maintain pace

Young Africans broke the long-standing Jamhuri Stadium hoodoo yesterday after beating Mtibwa Sugar 2-0 in a closely fought Vodacom Premier League match.

 

9 years ago

BBC

Togo maintain start without Adebayor

Togo win their second straight Africa Cup of Nations qualifier as they beat Djibouti 2-0 but star striker Emmanuel Adebayor is absent.

 

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