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COMMEMORATION: Today, we honor the Zanzibar Revolution!
January 12 marks Zanzibar Revolution Day, a national holiday in Tanzania that commemorates the 1964 revolution, which ended the Sultanate’s…
Ifakara's Director of Science, Dr. Ally Olotu, providing more explanations of Ifakara Health Institute. PHOTO: Ifakara Communications
VISIT: Ifakara hosts University of Zurich delegation in Bagamoyo
On January 9, 2026, the Ifakara Health Institute hosted a delegation of students from a Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) programme at the University of Zurich, Sw…
(L–R) Ifakara Health Institute Chief Executive Director and NEST360 Tanzania Country Lead, Dr. Honorati Masanja, presents a farewell gift to Prof. Joy Lawn.
FAREWELL: NEST360 Tanzania bids farewell to Prof Joy Lawn
On January 8, 2026, the NEST360 team in Tanzania bid farewell to Prof. Joy Lawn, a member of the NEST360 Steering Comm…
Principal Investigator Emmanuel Mbuba presenting during the meeting. PHOTO: IFAKARA Communications
MEETING: Stakeholders discuss bed-net durability study updates
Researchers, policymakers, and public health stakeholders convened in Dar es Salaam on January 8–9, 2026, for th…
A snip from the Parasites & Vectors journal with insets of Ifakara Health Institute scientists Najat Kahamba and Francesco Baldini, who contributed to the study. GRAPHIC | IFAKARA Communications.
MALARIA CONTROL: Fungus helps defeat insecticide-resistant mosquitoes
A recent study by researchers from Tanzania, Burkina Faso and the UK has found that a naturally occurring fungus can weaken malaria mosquitoes and reverse their resistance to commonly used insecticides, a discovery th…
A snip from the BMJ Global Health with an inset of Ifakara Health Institute research scientist Dr. Jerry Hella, who contributed to the study. GRAPHIC | IFAKARA Communications.
TB: Decentralizing testing cuts costs, improves early access to treatment
For many patients, getting tested for tuberculosis (TB) using widely available diagnostic tools can be expensive, slow and often delaying life-saving treatment, since these tests rely on centralized systems, where sam…
Delegates from the University of Glasgow—Prof. Chris Pearce and Mary Ryan—pose for a group photo with their hosts, Dr. Zawadi Mageni Mboma and Mr. Fredrick Masanja, during their visit to the Ifakara Health Institute offices in Morogoro. (From left to right: Prof. Chris Pearce, Dr. Zawadi Mageni Mboma, Mary Ryan, and Mr. Fredrick Masanja). Photo by IFAKARA Communications
TOUR: High-level University of Glasgow delegation visits Ifakara sites
This week, the Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) hosted a delegation from the University of …
A snip from the Springer Nature Link with insets of Ifakara Health Institute Scientist, Prof. Sarah Moore, who was the last author. GRAPHIC | IFAKARA Communications
DURABILITY: Are malaria mosquito nets as long-lasting as we think?
A new study by the Ifakara Health Institute in Tanzania, working with international partners, is questioning whether insecticide-treated nets (IT…
A snip from the Royal Society Open Science journal with insets of Ifakara Health Institute Scientists, Kennedy Lushasi, Joel Changalucha, and Lwitiko Sikana, who contributed to the study. GRAPHIC | IFAKARA Communications
INNOVATION: Smarter way to detect disease outbreaks in animals, humans
In a new study, scientists from the UK and Tanzania have introduced a new and improved method for identifying disease outbreaks, particularly when they occur across diverse groups: domestic animals, wildlife, or peopl…
A snip from the Preventive Veterinary Medicine journal with an inset of Ifakara Health Institute scientists, Maganga Sambo and Joel Changalucha, who contributed to the study. GRAPHIC | IFAKARA Communications
RABIES: High dog ownership heightens disease risk in northern Tanzania
Nearly half of households in Tanzania’s Mara Region keep dogs, with ownership patterns closely linked to rural living, household size, and local environments, a finding that has major implications for rabies con…