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Innovative Tools Boosting Tanzania’s Efforts To Cut Down Maternal, Newborn Deaths
Somewhere in rural Tanzania, a midwife is working alone...
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Every Medical Test Proved Negative, She Was Still Very Ill
It was 2006. Hajrrath Mohammed had just started Secondary...
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Medical interns in Kenya to earn over USD1, 900 in latest salary deal
The collective bargaining agreement (CBA) signed with the Council of Governors (CoG) will see the lowest-paid doctor (intern) earn Ksh206, 989, including allowances, says...
Meet Tanzanian biologist who tackles malaria by deciphering complex molecules
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...
Mwanza: Where 30% of consumed local alcohol goes unreported but harms the boozers
By Dr Joel Msafiri Francis
joelmf@hsph.harvard.edu
Only a few studies from sub-Saharan Africa have investigated the alcohol concentration found in local brews and this has led...
Watch: Who is Who in the post of World Health Organization Director-General -VIDEOs
The World Health Organization (WHO) Executive Board selected by vote the following 3 candidates to be presented to World Health Assembly as nominees for...
Dr.Giemsa:Tanzania’s first Chief Govt Chemist; what doctors must know about him
The name, Gustav Giemsa, may not be recalled easily by most doctors in Tanzania but the diagnostic technique, a dye solution which he developed—the...
New standards of reporting clinical trials coming
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...