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WORLD PREMATURITY DAY 2025: Give preterm babies a strong start for a hopeful future
The Ifakara Health Institute joins families, healthcare professionals, and organizations worldwide in observing…
Snip from Montreux Collaborative website.
BLOG: Ifakara scientist featured on WHO blog on health financing
The Ifakara Health Institute’s Dr. Peter Binyaruka was featured by the World Health Organization in a Montreux C…
A snip from the Nature Communications journal with insets of Ifakara Health Institute scientists Susan Rumisha and Punam Amratia, who contributed to the study. GRAPHIC | IFAKARA Communications
URGENT: New study reveals alarming delays in malaria treatment for children in Africa
A major new scientific study has raised urgent concern over delayed malaria treatment among children across Sub-Saharan Africa — warning that millions of young lives are put at risk when treatment does not begin…
Dr. Samuel Salvatory, Clinician and Principal Investigator of the CARECHAIN-NCD Project at Ifakara Health Institute, leads a group discussion during the NCD management training in Ifakara, Morogoro. PHOTO | IFAKARA Communications
TRAINING: Building skills for better non-communicable disease care
The CARECHAIN-NCD project implemented by Ifakara Health Institute, conducted a three-day …
A snip from Parasites & Vector journal with an inset of Ifakara Health Institute scientist Emmanuel Kaindoa, who contributed to the study. GRAPHIC | IFAKARA Communications
MALARIA CONTROL: Crop pollen linked to increased mosquito reproduction
Rice fields could be providing ideal breeding conditions for malaria-carrying mosquitoes due to pollen present in standing water, according to a recent study by researchers from Uganda, Switzerland, and Tanzania.
snip from Foreign Policy
PODCAST: Ifakara scientists featured on Foreign Policy’s “The Threshold”
On November 6, 2025, two Ifakara Health Institute scientists were featured in the latest episode of The Threshold. This is a Foreign Policy podcast exploring the global fight to end infectious diseases and th…
A snip from the Malaria Journal with insets of Ifakara Health Institute scientists, Tegemeo Gavana and Prosper Chaki, who contributed to the studies. GRAPHIC | IFAKARA Communications
LARVICIDING: Small gains, big value in the fight against malaria
New studies conducted in Tanzania’s Tanga Region has found that larviciding – treating water bodies to kill mosquito larvae – has limited impact on reducing malaria transmission, even though the appr…
A snip from the Viruses journal with an inset of Ifakara Health Institute scientist, Robert Sumaye, the co-lead author of the study. GRAPHIC | IFAKARA Communications
WARNING: Rift Valley Fever silently circulating undetected in Tanzania
Rift Valley fever (RVF), a viral disease affecting both animals and humans, is circulating year-round in parts of Tanzania without being detected by routine surveillance, according to new research published on Vir…
Group photo of a few Ifakara scientists in attendance. PHOTO: Dr Walter Manyiri
#ASTMH2025: Ifakara Joins Global Experts at tropical medicine forum
The Ifakara Health Institute is excited to participate in the 74th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tr…
A snip from the Oct 2025 edition's featured story. GRAPHIC | IFAKARA Communications Nov 10, 2025
MTAFITI: Health Gains at a Crossroads
October 2025 edition of "MTAFITI" - the monthly news and events round-up of the Ifakara Health Institute - i…