Response to the Ebola virus disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Tanzanian Statement on Ebola Outbreak in DRC

Ugonjwa wa Chikungunya

Taarifa kutoka Wizara ya Afya, Maendeleo ya jamii, Jinsia, Wazee na Watoto kuhusu ugonjwa wa Chikungunya. Tembelea hapa kwa taarifa zaidi.

Cholera report in Tanzania

From 15 August 2015 through 7 January 2018, 33 421 cases including 542 deaths (case fatality rate = 1.62%) have been reported across all 26 regions of the United Republic of Tanzania (Tanzania mainland and Zanzibar). Tanzania mainland has reported 86% of the total cases in this outbreak. Children under five years old accounted for…

Marburg virus disease

Updated October 2017 Key facts: Marburg virus disease (MVD), formerly known as Marburg haemorrhagic fever, is a severe, often fatal illness in humans. Rousettusaegyptiacus, fruit bats of the Pteropodidae family, are considered to be natural hosts of Marburg virus. The Marburg virus is transmitted to people from fruit bats and spreads among humans through human-to-human…

Advancing the One Health Movement: Our Ray of Hope for the Future

What?    Presentation by Cheryl Stroud, DVM, PhD, Executive Director of the One Health Commission (OHC), at the One Health Academy monthly discussion session in Washington DC with online webinar platform provided by the One Health Commission. Where?   Online and in-person at the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Building 1752 N St NW, Washington, DC 20036 When?   June…

Frontline Perspectives on Pandemic Preparedness

The world of global health security has been amassed in headlines over the past few weeks—from the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to the elimination of the Global Health Security Directorate within the White House National Security Council staff. For this episode of Take as Directed, we feature three leading health security…

Proceeding of the 35 scientific conference of the Tanzania Veterinary Association (TVA)

Click here for the proceedings of the conference that was held at the AICC, Arusha from 5th to 7th December 2017.  

AfyaData live on BBC Swahili

01.06.2018 – SACIDS was privileged to speak to the BBC Swahili Team last week about #AfyaData.   Please click here to listen.

Communities now lead fight against outbreak of diseases