Mis-handling of Lab Tests and Documents Discovered at Muhimbili

Investigations by The Guardian at the Dar es Salaam-based facility last week discovered that the 'touch-and-go' attitude of the laboratory and the indolence of auxiliary staff ... http://www.ippmedia.com/ipp/guardian/2005/05/20/39949.html

Virus Hunters

Scientist Nathan Wolfe is studying the blood of hunters and prey in places like rural Cameroon in order to identify emerging viruses and stave off pandemics. NY Times Scientist at Work

DARDAR Health Study Results Released

It is so sweet today to report something so close to home. When Fred Pond and I were in Tanzania earlier this year to provide library support to librarians at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, scientists from the DARDAR Health Study were wrapping up their TB study. Yesterday in Paris at the World Lung Health conference, the lead in the study, Dr. Fordham von Reyn reported that a TB vaccine reduced the incidence of laboratory-confirmed TB in HIV-positive people by 37%. Source: Aidsmap | Information on HIV and AIDS

Government Issues Rift Valley Fever Alert

Health authorities in Tanzania have urged people to take precautionary measures against Rift Valley Fever (RVF), an acute viral infectious disease that affects cattle, sheep and even humans ... Source: IRIN: Humanitarian news and analysis. Here is the World Health Organization overview of RVF.

Scientific Commons | A Community for Scientific Information

Scientific Commons is an excellent tool to help keep track of scientific articles published from Tanzania. Why stop at the country level? You can drill down to an institution. For instance, you can determine what publications are published from or about Muhimbili National Hospital. You can be even more specific and search by topic or author and have the results delivered to you by RSS feed. Since January 2007 ScientificCommons.org has indexed about 13 million scientific publications and successfully extracted 6 million authors' names. Bahati njema!

Muhimbili Study Shows Improvements in Treating Thrush

A single 750mg dose of fluconazole is just as effective at curing thrush in the mouth and upper throat as a 14-day course of the drug at a lower dose of 150mg, a randomized study conducted in Tanzania at Muhimbili National Hospital in Dar es Salaam. Aidsmap News

Tanzania Among 33 Countries with Alarming Level of Hunger

The latest Global Hunger Index released by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) shows Tanzania among a group of countries with "alarming" or "extremely alarming" levels of hunger. The Index ranks countries according to the prevalence of child malnutrition, rates of child mortality, and the proportion of people who are calorie deficient. IFPRI issued the index in conjunction with Welthungerhilfe and Concern Worldwide.

CPI (Corruption Perceptions Index)

In the US the CPI stands for consumer price index. On the international stage, it stands for Corruption Perceptions Index. That index, first published in 1995 by Transparency International (TI), the global coalition against corruption, recently issued its 2008 CPI index. Denmark, New Zealand and Sweden are perceived as the least corrupt. Somalia is perceived as the most corrupt. Of the 180 countries surveyed, Tanzania is ranked 102 along with Bolivia, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Lebanon, Mongolia and Rwanda. The NigeriaDailyNews.com reports that Rwanda and Tanzania are perceived as least corrupt among East African Community countries. TI also issues an annual corruption report. This year's report looks at corruption in the water sector. Individual country reports are also included.

U of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) Gets News ICT Centre

The Republic of Korea provides funds to UDSM’s College of Engineering and Technology (CoET) in order to acquire one of the most sophisticated Information Communication Technology (ICT) centre in the country. Read on ...

Muhimbili encourages local Tanzanian authorities to develop disaster management plans

Muhimbili University don has challenged local authorities to put in place disaster management plans to mitigate the impact of natural and man made catastrophes in their respective areas. “Lack of disaster ... Tanzania Standard Newspapers

From Vermont to Tanzania, help with suffering at life's end

BARRE, VT – Because of the efforts of Vermonters, terminally ill patients in rural Tanzania – many of them young parents with HIV/AIDS – are now receiving end-of-life care. A slide show and news about Vermont's ... Source: Times Argus Online

Cholera Outbreak Reported by RSOE EDIS

The Emergency and Disaster Information Service is hosted by National Association of Radio Distress-Signalling and Infocommunications. When the alert map displays, click on a trouble spot. Currently in Tanzania two issues are identified; active volcano Ol Doinyo Lengai and cholera outbreak in southern Tanzania. Havaria Information Service - AlertMap, monitors and documents events on earth that may cause emergency or disaster.

Harvard School of Public Health Expands HIV Work in Tanzania

Nearly 150 years ago, the Tanzanian city of Dar es Salaam was known by another name - Mzizima, meaning "healthy town" in the local language. But over the decades, the city and the country of Tanzania have experienced mounting challenges to that health.

Source: Harvard University Gazette Online

Selected News From Tanzania Today

>China to build heart institute in Tanzania
Source: ippmedia.com
China will build a training and surgical heart institute with the capacity of accommodating 100 patients at a go.The centre will be built at the Muhimbili National Hospital in Dar es Salaam.

>Tanzania coffee prices firm, quantity offered up
Source: africa.reuters.com
DAR ES SALAAM, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Tanzanian coffee prices firmed slightly at last week's auction as buyers sought to cover their positions ahead of a Muslim holiday, traders said on Wednesday.

>The Albinism Murders in Tanzania At Least 28 Slain; Body Parts Used in Witchdoctors’ Get-Rich Potion, by © Andrew Leibs, Sept. 30, 2008
Source: http://tanzania.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_albinism_murders_in_tanzania
Advocacy groups are heading to Africa to offer education and to aid government intervention on a recent series of brutal murders of persons with albinism in Tanzania.