Infant, maternal health voices for global hearings

Infant, maternal health voices for global hearings
IPPmedia
Tanzanians` voices on health issues collected in the run-up to White Ribbon Day will be shared at the Global Citizen Hearing to be held during the World Health Assembly. The World Health Assembly is slated to take place in Geneva, from May18-26. Briefing ...

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Habari Zinazoendana

11 years ago

Michuzi

Community Health Workers boosts maternal health services in Tanzania

 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...

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

22 Sep

HEALTH: Infant deaths alarming

>Maternal and Infant Mortality rates in Ngorongoro District, Arusha Region, are still high, well above the national average, according to a recent report by a non-governmental organisation,  Acord.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

28 Feb

Up maternal health cash

Improved maternal health will not only boost the quality of life of mothers and their babies but also the welfare of the entire nation.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

28 Jun

Long way to go for maternal health in TZ

>Tanzania has scored low in a latest survey that assessed 58 low and middle income countries that desperately need nurses who specialise in maternal health, but it was a head of  its East African partners - Kenya and Rwanda.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

01 Dec

Mewata calls for improved maternal health

Medical Women Association of Tanzania (Mewata) has called for concerted efforts from stakeholders to improve maternal health during the implementation of post-2015 development plan to reduce deaths.

 

11 years ago

Daily News

11 Jun

Exim Bank supports maternal health

Exim Bank supports maternal health
Daily News
IN supporting government initiative to improve maternal and child health, Exim Bank Tanzania has identified and started to give aid in areas which seems to have been left out during planning. The Bank has long believed in its slogan "Innovation is life", thus ...

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

28 Jun

COVER: Striving for safe maternal health in Tanzania

>Rose Mlay is playing a big role in trying to help local Tanzanian women attain good health services during maternity. Mlay’s career as a midwife brought changes in the health sector in the country after she attended the first Global White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood workshop in India in 2002.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

09 Sep

Why Dar makes ‘insufficient progress’ in maternal health

Amid reports of increasing deaths resulting from teen pregnancy, Fatuma Maulidi, her husband and other family members were worrisome when she conceived aged 17. But they kept their fingers crossed and prayed to God that nothing bad happens to her and the child during delivery.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

16 May

Govt unveils new plan to improve maternal health

All regions in the country will now be rated periodically on progress to reduce the death of mothers and their newborns as the country attempts to beat next year’s Millennium Development Goals deadline.

 

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