Group photo of the meeting attendees.
MEETING: Partners align ahead of the Beginnings Fund Tanzania launch
Momentum is building ahead of the launch of the Beginnings Fund Tanzania Mainland Investment Program, a new phi…
A snip from the Parasites & Vectors with insets of Ifakara Health Institute scientist Reuben Mmweteni, Emmanuel Kaindoa and Francesco Baldini, who contributed to the study. GRAPHIC | IFAKARA Communications
MALARIA: Natural bacteria in mosquitoes may help curb the disease
Scientists from Ifakara Health Institute studying wild mosquitoes in southeastern Tanzania have discovered that wild anopheles funestus mosquitoes naturally carry wolbachia — a bacterium increasingly being explo…
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TOUR: Ifakara visits The Kids Research Institute in Australia
From 28 April to 1 May 2026, the Ifakara Health Institute undertook a strategic knowledge-sharing visit to The Kids Re…
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CONFERENCE: SFUCHAS, Ifakara to host scientific conference next month
St. Francis University College of Health and Allied Sciences (SFUCHAS), in collaboration with the Ifakara Cluster – including Ifakara Healt…
A snip from Nature Medicine journal with insets of Ifakara Health Institute scientists Arnold Mmbando and Ally Olotu, who contributed to the study. GRAPHIC | IFAKARA Communications
STAR HOMES: Tanzania study shows improved housing can reduce childhood diseases
Improving housing conditions could be a powerful strategy for reducing childhood diseases in Tanzania, according to findings from a major rural study linking better homes with lower disease rates among children.
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WEBINAR: Genetically modified mosquitos to eliminate malaria
Ifakara Health Institute’s Dickson Lwetoijera will on 7 May 2026 deliver a webinar organized by Inserm (French National Institute for Health…
Group photo of the meeting attendees.
HACKATHON: Ifakara hosts regional and country partners to strengthen vector modelling
From 20th to 24th April 2026, the MoDD Africa Project within the Ifakara Health Institute held its Hackathon 2026 in Z…
A snip from the BMC Infectious Diseases journal with an inset of Ifakara Health Institute scientist Aneth Vedastus Kalinjuma, the lead author of the study. GRAPHIC | IFAKARA Communications
HIV CARE: Tanzania makes major progress, but retaining patients is a challenge
A long-term study in Tanzania has found that while access to HIV treatment and health outcomes have improved significantly, many patients struggle to remain consistently in care.
Group photo of the meeting attendees.
MEETING: Biomeds from Ifakara and partners review health technology management policy
From 20–24 April 2026, Biomedical Engineers gathered in Morogoro for a technical review workshop on the Health T…
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MEETING: Ifakara leads community efforts to prevent HIV transmission among couples
On April 18, 2026, the Chronic Diseases Clinic of Ifakara (CDCI) at the Ifakara Health Institute held a dissemination …