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1.	WHO unveils anti-alcohol strategy for Africa
	Friday, September 03, 2010  by Admin
	The World Health Organization has proposed a strategy to prevent, or at least reduce, the harmful use of alcohol and related problems in Africa. “The strategy, based on five key principles to guide policy development at country level, is predicated on the use of the best available evidence and sensitivity to national contexts in policy formulation, protection of people at risk, particularly harm from other people’s act of drinking, and from pressures to drink,” said part of a statement issued by WHO on Wednesday.
2.	Programme on community-based health service delivery launched
	Thursday, September 02, 2010  by Admin
	A new project to test whether community health workers can strengthen community-based health service delivery in the country has been launched.
3.	Measures to control mosquito menace
	Wednesday, September 01, 2010  by Admin
	UGLY swarms of mosquitoes that have invaded Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH), Upanga, Kariakoo and parts of Magomeni in Dar es Salaam, have prompted the government to sponsor an extensive research aimed at destroying their breeding ground in the Msimbazi River valley.
4.	Korogwe municipality embarks on HIV/Aids care training programme
	Tuesday, August 31, 2010  by Admin
	Over 30 health workers in Korogwe municipal council have been trained into being care takers of people living with HIV/Aids visiting their health centres. Korogwe city council HIV/Aids co-ordinator Grayson Kibwana told reporters recently that the training is aimed at enhancing capability of health workers in caring, counselling and educating people living with HVI/Aids.
5.	Malaria herbal cure under study
	Tuesday, August 31, 2010  by Admin
	EFFORTS to control the world's number-one killer disease, malaria, could possibly bear fruit in the near future when a medicinal herb known as Mdaka-komba comes into use.
6.	`Shortages hit Dar hospitals`
	Monday, August 30, 2010  by Admin
	Dar es Salaam municipal hospitals are now facing serious shortage of medicines, human and financial resources, thus failing to provide quality services to the rapidly growing number of patients, The Guardian survey revealed
7.	For Rukwa`s poor patients, medical care is a nightmare
	Monday, August 30, 2010  by Admin
	Donning torn clothes, sporting dry skins, and lost in deep thought, 35-year-old Esta and her husband, Sungura, personify a hard life. Sitting silently and patiently in a corridor of Kirando health centre’s maternity ward, the unsmiling couple is in no mood to chat with happy nurses passing by, as it awaits the turn of the expectant mother to be attended.
8.	Maasai women face high HIV/Aids infection risk
	Monday, August 30, 2010  by Admin
	Prevention of widowed Maasai women to re-marry is heightening the risk of HIV/Aids infection in Tanga Region’s Kilindi District. Maasai women numbering about 400 reportedly commit adultery with multiple partners to satisfy sexual desires, thereby running the risk of contracting the killer disease.
9.	TFDA, police seize 18.3bn/- dangerous chemicals
	Monday, August 30, 2010  by Admin
	The Tanzania Food and Drugs Authority (TFDA), in collaboration with the police, have impounded 196 types of fake and expired drugs and dangerous chemicals worth 18.3bn/- in six regions on Tanzania Mainland.
10.	Over 170,000 people living with HIV/Aids access HBC services
	Monday, August 30, 2010  by Admin
	Over 170,000 HIV/Aids patients have enjoyed the services of a countrywide Home-Based Care (HBC) programme being implemented in 133 districts, a Health and Social Affairs ministry official revealed recently.
11.	HIV care services for improvement in Prisons
	Wednesday, August 25, 2010  by Admin
	INADEQUATE Home Based Care (HBC) networks and lack of effective referral systems for People Living with Aids (PLWA) is one of the hurdles in smooth provision of services to such needy group in the country.
12.	Home-based AIDS care inadequate
	Wednesday, August 25, 2010  by Admin
	INADEQUATE Home Based Care (HBC) networks and effective referral systems of HIV/AIDS patients is one of the challenges that frustrate the implementation of the system in the country.
13.	Mysterious stomach ailment hits Tarime
	Tuesday, August 24, 2010  by Admin
	DOZENS of patients have been flocking Tarime District Hospital with serious complications of severe diarrhoea and vomiting over the past few days.
14.	Zanzibar promotes use of ‘white cane’
	Tuesday, August 24, 2010  by Admin
	IN efforts to promote safety and independence among people who are blind and visually impaired, drivers and motorbike cyclists have been asked to understand and take note of the ‘white cane.’
15.	Domestic air pollution cited as a critical health problem
	Monday, August 23, 2010  by Admin
	The Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Blandina Nyoni, has underlined the need for the country to start using solar and other sources of energy for domestic use . The PS was speaking in Dar es Salaam this week, at a function to commemorate.
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