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

>The number of women dying during delivery in Tanga Region has decreased from 101 deaths out of 45,256 women who delivered in 2013 to 69 deaths out of 47,692 women who delivered last year.

>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.

Readers tend to pay little attention to newspaper stories on development. And even when they do, it is only when the story is made juicy. At this point, when almost everyone in Tanzania seems to be mesmerised by the political drama ahead of the October election, we are likely to witness that kind of thing.

The use of herbs to speedup labour in expectant mothers has been blamed for fuelling maternal deaths in Same District, Kilimanjaro Region.

The Aga Khan Hospital, Dar es Salaam, yesterday launched a multi-billion-shilling cancer treatment programme as part of the institution’s efforts to offer high-value and more specialised services in the country.

>Judges of the premier media competition that is driven by global news network CNN yesterday coached Tanzanian journalists on how to develop powerful stories and raise their profiles. Local writers were challenged to come up with stories that have enough impact to raise their numbers in the CNN MultiChoice African Journalist awards.

HATIMA ya ombi la kuwataka maofisa wa afya waache kuingilia shughuli za kituo cha Sayansi ya Tiba Mbadala cha ‘Foreplan Clinic’ kinachoendeshwa na Dk. Juma Mwaka, itajulikana keshokutwa. Kituo hicho...