Dar es Salaam is among the cities with highest number of commuters in the country, with the majority of these commuters in the young economically productive age. Overhead pedestrian bridges were not a common thing in sub-Saharan Africa and...
Some of the world’s largest funders of medical research and international non-governmental organizations have agreed on new standards that will require all clinical trials they fund or support to be registered and the results disclosed publicly.
In a joint statement,...
In Summary
Malaria vaccine recommended for use in children across Sub-Saharan Africa
Historic moment’ broadly welcomed but concerns raised over distribution
Vaccine protection ‘incomplete’, other interventions remain vital
The World Health Organization’s recommendation of broad deployment of the first...
Bureaucracy hampers ability to use available resources in tackling new variants, expert
The ‘largely undocumented’ progression of the pandemic raises eyebrows
Report pinpoints measures to boost genomic sequencing efforts in the region
Tanzania has the capacity to detect new...
Tanzania’s research sector is recovering from a year-long official denial of COVID-19, during which researchers did not have the freedom to study the pandemic. Much of what transpired in the research community during that time, and what has changed...
Monitoring, screening and administering preventive treatment to individuals who have been in contact with patients newly diagnosed with leprosy, helps curtail transmission of the bacterial infection, potentially reducing the global disease burden, a study says.
Researchers say they have evaluated...
Ever heard of molecular biologists? Dr Deborah Sumari, a research scientist at Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) is one of them.
She was in the news here in Tanzania and beyond after being named recipient of the prestigious “Africa Oxford Initiative...
Authorities in Tanzania must consider health workers’ marital status, their partners’ job and cultural diversity when posting them to work in rural health facilities, a study suggests.
The study carried out in two rural districts of the country (Rombo and...
An often neglected but life-threatening disease-caused by an organism Toxoplasma gondii (T.gondii)—has, over the years, led to a number of deaths among patients admitted in public hospitals across Tanzania, says a new study.
A person becomes infected by T.gondii from...
Scientists at the Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) say the efforts to eliminate malaria would finally yield good results if more investment is put in curbing the remaining burden of malaria in rural Tanzania which is now attributed to one...