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  What Happens When Doctors Get Sick? Personal Experience With Breast Cancer
  
  Carolyn Mwasha - March 2, 2023 0
  
  Read the story of two Tanzanian women doctors: Dr. Grace Mzengi and Prof. Julie Makani, as they delve into details of what they have...
  
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  Rare Diseases: The Stark Reality In Tanzania And Beyond, The-Way Forward
  
  Dr Martha Magili - February 27, 2023 0
  
  Imagine being one of the few people in the world with a mysterious illness that no one can diagnose and nowhere to turn for...
  
  Medical Education
  Tanzania: HIV Self-test Kits Now Available In Pharmacies. What To Expect
  
  Syriacus Buguzi - March 19, 2022 0
  
  A social media post went viral on WhatsApp recently, leaving people wondering if oral HIV-self testing kits are now commercially available in pharmacies across...
  
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  Lost in Tanzania’s digital health system en route to Zambia
  
  Dr Ibrahim Simiyu - December 28, 2021 0
  
  John*, a long-distance truck driver and a resident of Dar es Salaam, tested positive for HIV through community outreach screening at Chanika Health Centre...
  
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  Omicron variant: WHO stands with African nations, calls for borders to remain open
  
  World Health Oganisation - November 28, 2021 0
  
  As a growing number of countries impose flight bans on southern African nations due to concerns over the new Omicron variant, World Health Organization...
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  Beyond The Medal: Prof. Makani’s Medical Career Choices, Sacrifices And Successes
  
  Carolyn Mwasha - February 8, 2023 1
  
  When she was in her early 30s, at the peak of her career as a young scientist, Julie Makani endeavored to do what many...
  
  Medical Education
  How This Doctor Handled Patients In Lindi Region Amid Outbreak Fears
  
  MedicoPRESS - January 12, 2023 1
  
  Field fever, or known as leptospirosis, had been documented in more than 10 regions of Tanzania since 1990 but in July 2022, during the...
  
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  Doctor Who Diagnosed Tanzania’s First Three HIV Cases In 1983
  
  Emmanuel Rubagumya - January 5, 2023 0
  
  At the age of 91, Callixte Twagirayezu would be mistaken for a person a bit younger than his actual age. He has the natural...
  
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  Prof Tumaini Nagu: Tanzania’s New Chief Medical Officer
  
  MedicoPRESS - October 22, 2022 0
  
  President Samia Suluhu Hassan has appointed Professor Tumaini Joseph Nagu, a specialist in internal medicine, to be the Chief Medical Officer. Prof Nagu’s appointment is...
  
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  Prof Aboud’s Meteoric Rise To The Helm Of NIMR
  
  MedicoPRESS - October 22, 2022 0
  
  Professor Said Aboud, a medical doctor and virologist who rose to fame at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in Tanzania, has taken over...
Medico Research
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  Tanzania: AI Tool Used To Predict Mosquitos’ Age
  
  SciDev Net - January 30, 2023 0
  
  Africa had about 95 per cent of the world’s 247 million cases of malaria in 2021Researchers tested whether an AI tool could predict ages...
  
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  Tanzanian Scientists Want Ban Of Antibiotics Use In Fattening Chicken
  
  MedicoPRESS - September 13, 2022 0
  
  Unacceptable levels of common antibiotics detected in 90% of chicken samples at slaughter slabsPreventing infections and emphasizing vaccination is way out: MUHAS professor saysGovernment...
  
  Medical Education
  Investors pull funding from African Academy of Sciences, research crisis unfolds
  
  SciDev Net - August 20, 2022 0
  
  Major African research projects have been disrupted after international donors withdrew funding from the continent’s science academy due to a long-running governance crisis, a SciDev.Net investigation...
  
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  Two Marine Scientists On Healthy Seaweed Mission In Tanzania
  
  Emmanuel Rubagumya - July 30, 2022 0
  
  Business trip to Zanzibar opens new opportunity for seaweed farming ventureCalls being made to protect the endangered seaweeds from bugsScientists eye rewarding business from...
  
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  Tanzania: Novel Bed Net Makes Mosquitoes Unable To Fly Or Bite
  
  MedicoPRESS - April 4, 2022 0
  
  An innovative bed net that immobilises mosquitoes by making them unable to move or fly could reduce malaria infection in children significantly, says a...
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  Rare interview in the midst of censorship: Dr Mwele’s legacy in science
  
  Syriacus Buguzi - February 11, 2022 0
  
  It was about five months after her appointment to work as Director in the Office of Africa Regional Director at the World Health Organization...
  
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  UDSM researchers to receive science communication training
  
  SciDev Net - January 24, 2022 0
  
  Almost 100 researchers and PhD students at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania are next in line to take part in a...
  
  Medical Education
  What I wasn’t taught in medical school, why it matters now
  
  Dr Ibrahim Simiyu - March 9, 2021 0
  
  When I graduated from medical school as a doctor about a decade ago, I knew for sure that I was entering the world of...
  
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  Tanzanian health journalist wins award for reporting on infertility
  
  MedicoPRESS - June 12, 2018 0
  
  Boniface Mashaka, the chairman of the Association of Tanzania Health Journalists (ATHJ), is among 13 winners of the “MeRCK More Than a Mother” Media...
  
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  Medical journalism: Another way to write about science
  
  MedicoPRESS - March 1, 2018 1
  
  Can you be both a medical writer and a medical journalist? Yes, but it involves a change in mindset. For example, the information required...
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    Why short-term projects aren’t a good idea for addressing NCDs in Tanzania
    
    Dr Ibrahim Simiyu - November 7, 2020 0
    
    People afflicted with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes and cancer need long-term health interventions, however, in most low- and middle-income countries; including Tanzania,...
    
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    Gaps we can bridge with strong public-private partnership in healthcare
    
    Dr Omary Chillo - November 12, 2019 1
    
    Globally, 400 million people lack access to basic health services and millions of others are increasingly getting impoverished because of high out-of-pocket healthcare costs....
    
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    Tanzanian scientists seek to close the gap on human genetics
    
    MedicoPRESS - October 15, 2019 0
    
    Scientists in Tanzania are working on strategies that will help raise the profile of human genetics and improve research on how gene-related diseases are...
    
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    African Genetic Scientists eye Tanzania for historic conference
    
    MedicoPRESS - September 4, 2019 0
    
    Scientists working in the field of human genetics and policymakers from across Africa are expected to gather in Tanzania for the 13 th African...
    
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    Lessons Tanzania must pick from Vietnam, Thailand on Universal Health Coverage
    
    Prof Angwara Kiwara - November 13, 2017 0
    
    In the ongoing efforts to ensure professional and quality healthcare delivery for all citizens, Tanzania can borrow a leaf from Vietnam and Thailand; two...
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What Happens When Doctors Get Sick? Personal Experience With Breast Cancer

Rare Diseases: The Stark Reality In Tanzania And Beyond, The-Way Forward

Tanzania: HIV Self-test Kits Now Available In Pharmacies. What To Expect

Lost in Tanzania’s digital health system en route to Zambia

Omicron variant: WHO stands with African nations, calls for borders to remain open

Beyond The Medal: Prof. Makani’s Medical Career Choices, Sacrifices And Successes

How This Doctor Handled Patients In Lindi Region Amid Outbreak Fears

Doctor Who Diagnosed Tanzania’s First Three HIV Cases In 1983

Prof Tumaini Nagu: Tanzania’s New Chief Medical Officer

Prof Aboud’s Meteoric Rise To The Helm Of NIMR

Tanzania: AI Tool Used To Predict Mosquitos’ Age

Tanzanian Scientists Want Ban Of Antibiotics Use In Fattening Chicken

Investors pull funding from African Academy of Sciences, research crisis unfolds

Two Marine Scientists On Healthy Seaweed Mission In Tanzania

Tanzania: Novel Bed Net Makes Mosquitoes Unable To Fly Or Bite

Rare interview in the midst of censorship: Dr Mwele’s legacy in science

UDSM researchers to receive science communication training

What I wasn’t taught in medical school, why it matters now

Tanzanian health journalist wins award for reporting on infertility

Medical journalism: Another way to write about science

Why short-term projects aren’t a good idea for addressing NCDs in Tanzania

Gaps we can bridge with strong public-private partnership in healthcare

Tanzanian scientists seek to close the gap on human genetics

African Genetic Scientists eye Tanzania for historic conference

Lessons Tanzania must pick from Vietnam, Thailand on Universal Health Coverage

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