MY TAKE ON THIS: About skewed malaria, dengue control measures

'We must all adhere to infection prevention and control measures'  IPPmedia

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...

-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...

WHO: Japan may need to scale up measures  NHK WORLD

World Malaria Day 2015:Invest in the Future, Defeat Malaria
The World Malaria Day theme provides a common platform for all malaria partners to showcase their successes in malaria control and unify diverse initiatives in the changing global context. Malaria-endemic countries have made incredible gains in malaria in the last decade, but sustaining them will take extra efforts until the job is finished and malaria is eliminated worldwide. The theme for 2015 is Invest in the future, Defeat...

Measures spelled out to revamp education
Daily News | The National Newspaper (press release) (blog)
THE Prime Minister, Mr Kassim Majaliwa, has directed municipal council directors to actively participate in the process of supervising primary and secondary schools in the country, cautioning them against leaving the task to education officers alone.

For donkey’s years now, countries have relied on traditional, hackneyed measures of wealth. Most-favoured is the gross domestic product (GDP). Least Developed/Developing Countries (LD/DCs) --Tanzania NOT excepted -- are virtual slaves to this norm, shackled to it as adherents of multilateral institutions like the IMF and the World Bank.