The world is facing multiple health challenges. These range from outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases like measles and diphtheria, increasing reports of drug-resistant pathogens, growing rates of obesity and physical inactivity to the health impacts of environmental pollution and climate change and multiple humanitarian crises. To address these and other threats, 2019 sees the start of…
The Ministry of Health (MoH), WHO and partners continue to respond to the ongoing Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in one of the most complex settings possible. A high number of cases are still being reported, most notably from the metropolitan areas of Katwa Health Zone during the past week. The decline in case incidence…
Dr Martin Chitolongo Simuunza the senior lecturer in the Department of Disease Control, in the School of Veterinary Medicine, was on 29th November 2018 awarded the 2018 Science and Technology Merit Award at a colourful ceremony, which was graced by the Minister of Higher Education Professor Nkandu Luo at the Cresta Golf View Hotel. The…
From December 17-21, 2018, the Connecting Organization for Regional Disease Surveillance (CORDS) network members visited Tanzania to learn experiences, good practices and challenges on the use of digital technology in event-based surveillance (EBS). The event brought together sixteen (16) individuals from CORDS’ sixmember networks. They visited Ngorongoro, which is one of the districts in Tanzania…
The SACIDS Foundation for One Health is implementing a project titled “Strengthening scientific capacity for surveillance and response to Viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHF) in Tanzania” through the support of the Korean National Institute of Health (KNIH). SACIDS and KNIH organized a training workshop on the application of molecular and serological technologies held at the Sokoine…
