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What Happens When Doctors Get Sick? Personal Experience With Breast Cancer
Read the story of two Tanzanian women doctors: Dr. Grace Mzengi and Prof. Julie Makani, as they delve into details of what they have...Medico VoicesRare Diseases: The Stark Reality In Tanzania And Beyond, The-Way Forward
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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...Medico VoicesLost in Tanzania’s digital health system en route to Zambia
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...Medico VoicesOmicron variant: WHO stands with African nations, calls for borders to remain open
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
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 EducationHow This Doctor Handled Patients In Lindi Region Amid Outbreak Fears
MedicoPRESS - 1Field fever, or known as leptospirosis, had been documented in more than 10 regions of Tanzania since 1990 but in July 2022, during the...Medico ProfilesDoctor Who Diagnosed Tanzania’s First Three HIV Cases In 1983
At the age of 91, Callixte Twagirayezu would be mistaken for a person a bit younger than his actual age. He has the natural...Medico ProfilesProf Tumaini Nagu: Tanzania’s New Chief Medical Officer
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Tanzania: AI Tool Used To Predict Mosquitos’ Age
SciDev Net - 0Africa had about 95 per cent of the world’s 247 million cases of malaria in 2021Researchers tested whether an AI tool could predict ages...Medico ResearchTanzanian Scientists Want Ban Of Antibiotics Use In Fattening Chicken
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Business trip to Zanzibar opens new opportunity for seaweed farming ventureCalls being made to protect the endangered seaweeds from bugsScientists eye rewarding business from...Medico ResearchTanzania: Novel Bed Net Makes Mosquitoes Unable To Fly Or Bite
MedicoPRESS - 0An 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
It was about five months after her appointment to work as Director in the Office of Africa Regional Director at the World Health Organization...Medical JournalismUDSM researchers to receive science communication training
SciDev Net - 0Almost 100 researchers and PhD students at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania are next in line to take part in a...Medical EducationWhat I wasn’t taught in medical school, why it matters now
When I graduated from medical school as a doctor about a decade ago, I knew for sure that I was entering the world of...Medical JournalismTanzanian health journalist wins award for reporting on infertility
MedicoPRESS - 0Boniface Mashaka, the chairman of the Association of Tanzania Health Journalists (ATHJ), is among 13 winners of the “MeRCK More Than a Mother” Media...Medical JournalismMedical journalism: Another way to write about science
MedicoPRESS - 1Can 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
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,...ConferencesGaps we can bridge with strong public-private partnership in healthcare
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....ConferencesTanzanian scientists seek to close the gap on human genetics
MedicoPRESS - 0Scientists in Tanzania are working on strategies that will help raise the profile of human genetics and improve research on how gene-related diseases are...ConferencesAfrican Genetic Scientists eye Tanzania for historic conference
MedicoPRESS - 0Scientists working in the field of human genetics and policymakers from across Africa are expected to gather in Tanzania for the 13 th African...ConferencesLessons Tanzania must pick from Vietnam, Thailand on Universal Health Coverage
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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