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COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: a threat to public health achievements

Global reports about development and deployment of vaccines against SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19, have been received with mixed feelings. News about vaccines should...
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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,...
Dr Ibrahim Simiyu -
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Tanzania: What COVID-19 portends for cancer patients, caregivers

Around the world, almost everyone is talking about COVID-19, a pandemic disease caused by the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2); whose outbreak was first reported in...
Dr Heri Tungaraza -
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WHO: What Tanzanian medics ought to tell public on coronavirus and why

Tanzania is one of the 13 top priority African countries earmarked by World Health Organization (WHO) for interventions on novel coronavirus due to the...
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Gaps 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....
Dr Omary Chillo -
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Treatment-resistant malaria: are we winning the battle?

The history of resistance to antimalarials in Africa is not a happy one. At one time, chloroquine was the leading recommended treatment against malaria....
Nathan Mulure -
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Why malaria mosquitoes still dance in our bedrooms

There is danger in their music. They party in our bedrooms all night, and boastfully lift their bloody abdomens while jigging on our insecticide-treated...
Fredros Okumu -
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Why Tanzania must boost research on human genetics

Elsewhere around the world, scientists are deciphering new ways of identifying the genes that are involved in human disease. This has also helped in...
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