Lisa’s Story: A Mother’s Quest to Reunite with Her Daughter
By Fathya Chambo and Kuduishe Kisowile Dar Es Salaam. In the year 1997 in the streets of Ilala, a teenage girl wanders with her friends in clubs and bars. Her…
HIV TESTING: A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE
By Kuduishe Kisowile. Dar es Salaam. Four decades ago at Ndolage hospital in Kagera, the then medical officer in charge Doctor Callixte Twagirayezu and his team admitted two men and…
COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS: THE BRIDGE TOWARDS HEALTH FOR ALL
By Henry Daniel and Kuduishe Kisowile Geita. Community based health services in Tanzania can be traced back to 1967 during the Arusha declaration; and expedited by the Alma Atta declaration…
TOWARDS AN AIDS-FREE GENERATION: CIRCLES OF RELIEF
By Jesca Sungura. Dar es Salaam. – Jasmin Abdul, a 33 year old mother discovered that she was pregnant again when her firstborn was 12 years old. As a routine,…
MDH Colleagues who lost their lives in a plane crash at Bukoba airport on 6th November 2022
Dear MDH family, partners and friends with deep sorrow, we mourn the lives of colleagues, friends and family members who lost their lives in the plane crash at Bukoba airport…
Honorable, Amos Makala, Dar es Salaam Regional Commissioner urges Citizens to get vaccinated for COVID-19.
Dar es Salaam Regional Commissioner Hon. Amos Makala said this today while he was addressing the Dar es Salaam Regional Defense and Security Committee and the Regional and District Secretariat…
Government, CDC launches COVID-19 case management hub at Muhimbili National Hospital
The Minister for Health, Hon. Ummy Mwalimu (MP), U.S. CDC Director Rochelle P. Walensky, and U.S. Ambassador to Tanzania, Donald Wright during the inauguration of the Extension for Community Healthcare…
Community Health Worker (CHW) linking people to TB treatment services.
By Zacharia Mlacha A trained community health worker Sarah Samson, visiting Muheza district hospital to follow up her client’s. Sarah volunteers to collect the sputum sample from her clients for…
Saving lives of drug users through Medically Assisted Therapy (MAT) integrated health services
By Said Mkwizu and Zacharia Mlacha Thabiti Omary Jaza taking his methadone at Mwananyamala regional hospital, Methadone is a part of a treatment program for an addiction to heroin or…