Zanzibar on course to taming child mortality

Zanzibar on course to taming child mortality
Daily News
ZANZIBAR Second Vice-President Ambassador Seif Ali Iddi has appealed to development partners to continue supporting the Islands' initiatives to improve health services, particularly that of women and children. “Support from development partners is ...
Zanzibar Determined to Promote TourismAllAfrica.com

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Daily News

Habari Zinazoendana

11 years ago

BBC

Child mortality 'still too high'

The infants still dying from preventable causes

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

17 Oct

Curb child mortality, Unicef urges leaders

The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) has appealed to leaders in Mbeya Region to do all they can to curb child and maternal mortality.

 

10 years ago

Dewji Blog

17 Sep

Tanzania in top 10 countries that’s lowered child mortality rates by more than two-thirds since 1990

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WASHINGTON (AP) — More of the world’s children are surviving to their fifth birthday, but 6.3 million still died last year, mostly from preventable causes, the U.N. children’s agency said Tuesday.

That’s nearly 17,000 young children dying every day. And while death rates have been cut in half since 1990, the world still is short of meeting a goal of a two-thirds decrease in child mortality by next year, the report by the United Nations Children’s Fund...

 

10 years ago

BBC

Taming Africa's deadly transport chaos

The start-ups taming Africa's deadly transport chaos

 

10 years ago

AllAfrica.Com

23 Feb

Zanzibar Devoted to Fight Child Abuse

Zanzibar Devoted to Fight Child Abuse
AllAfrica.com
VARIOUS actors in the isles are working collectively in addressing child-abuse which is at alarming rate. The holistic approach is directed at formulating district child protection teams that will be supporting social welfare officers with technical know-how, ...

 

9 years ago

AllAfrica.Com

15 Oct

Zanzibar Pushes to End Child Abuse

Zanzibar Pushes to End Child Abuse
AllAfrica.com
ZANZIBAR has marked the International Day of the Girl Child with a call for concerted efforts to end abuse of children in the Islands. The 'International Day' is observed on October 11 of every year and the theme for this year is 'the Power of the ...
Yes, child protection remains paramountDaily News | The National Newspaper (press release) (blog)

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9 years ago

IPPmedia

24 Oct

Zanzibar wins international award on child rights.

IPPmedia
Zanzibar wins international award on child rights.
IPPmedia
Zanzibar is the winner of the 2015 Future Policy Award on securing children's rights, beating 29 other nominated countries' policies to the prize. The award was presented at a ceremony in Geneva on Tuesday at a ceremony convened by the World Future ...

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

25 Feb

Taming BVR monster big test for Tanzania electoral agency

In 2013 Kenya became the first country in the East African region to deploy high-tech election system, using Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) in its General Election.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

29 Jun

Marriage, health and mortality

We all want to live longer, healthier and happier life. Some of us even understand that not everything is in destiny’s hands, as we also play a huge role in the process.

 

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