Bagamoyo District Commissioner, Ms. Zainab Kawawa. PHOTO | FILE
ENGAGEMENT: Bagamoyo DC visits Ifakara offices, research platforms
Bagamoyo District Commissioner, Ms. Zainab Kawawa, today visits Ifakara Health Institute offices and research platforms based in Bagamoyo, Coast region, in a half-day familiarization tour.
The research infrastructure she is scheduled to…
The TB-CAPT landing page snip. GRAPHIC | IFAKARA/Coms
WORLD TB DAY: Ifakara project launches website for sharing information with stakeholders
On the World TB Day today, Ifakara Health Institute’s TB-CAPT (Close the gap, increase Access, Provide adequate Therapy) project unveiled a new website for sharing information about their activities. The website…
Some brave Ifakara women. PHOTO | IFAKARA/ComsFILE
COMMEMORATION: We celebrate the tremendous efforts by Ifakara women
Ifakara Health Institute celebrates the tremendous efforts by Ifakara women on the International Women’s Day (IWD) today. The central message for this year is “Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world,”…
Ifakara Senior Data Scientist Charles Festo moderates one of the training sessions held at Kibaha Conference Center. PHOTO | IFAKARA/Coms
Tamani project builds capacity of its research support team
Ifakara Health Institute’s Tamani project, which is implemented in Tabora Region, has conducted training for its fieldworkers to prepare them for the next course of the study.
Tamani – for ‘Tabora Maternal Newborn Heal…
Global RECAP Principal Investigator, Dr. Sally Mtenga, speaks at the inception event held in Dodoma on December 16, 2020. PHOTO | IHI/Coms.
INCEPTION: Program to investigate policies on non-communicable diseases unveiled
Ifakara Health Institute has officially unveiled a new project which goes by the name of Global Regulatory & Fiscal Capacity Building Program (Global RECAP) which aims to investigate policies on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Tanzania.
A screen grab of the Ifakara Science Channel opener. GRAPHIC | IFAKARA/Coms
ENGAGEMENT: Ifakara Science Channel unveiled, subscribe now for research updates
Ifakara Health Institute Chief Executive Director, Dr. Honorati Masanja, has unveiled the ‘Ifakara Science Channel’ - a platform hosted on the world’s most popular video content provider operated by Google LLC – YouTube.
BOHEMIA Project enumerator Eunice Futa administers a mini-census questionnaire at Mchukwi Ward, Kibiti District on November 26, 2020. BOHEMIA, a Unitaid funded project studying the use of Ivermectin drug to control malaria, is conducting a mini-census in Rufiji and Kibiti districts, Tanzania for a period of three months: November 2020 – January 2021. PHOTO | IFAKARA/Coms
RESEARCH: Bohemia mini-census gets underway in Rufiji, Kibiti
BOHEMIA, a Unitaid-funded project studying the use of Ivermectin drug to curb malaria, has launched a mini-census in Rufiji and Kibiti districts, Tanzania. During the three-month ac…
A sniff of the World Health Organization’s World AIDS Day 2020 commemorations campaign website. PHOTO | COURTESY/WHO
WORLD AIDS DAY: Ifakara marks the event with targeted community engagements
As part of World AIDS Day commemorations today, Ifakara Health Institute staff and collaborators participated in targeted engagement activities with communities and other stakeholders at various locations.
In Ifakara, our doctors and nu…
A team of doctors, nurses and other supporting staff from Ifakara Health Institute and St. Francis Referral Hospital in a group photo with prison officials outside the Idete Agricultural Prison in Ifakara on Sunday, November 30, 2020. PHOTO | COURTESY/Faraji Abilahi.
WORLD AIDS DAY: Ifakara offers free tests to over 400 prisoners
As part of World AIDS Day commemorations, Ifakara Health Institute doctors and nurses in collaboration with their St. Francis Referral Hospital counterparts visited Idete Prison in Ifakara where they offered free HIV, TB, malaria and blood pressu…
Attain Life Project Leader and Ifakara Health Institute Research Scientist, Dr. Getrud Mollel (second left) is joined by a pediatrician from Muhimbili National Hospital, Dr. David Kombo (Third left) and a Town Medical Officer of Ifakara, Dr. Erasto Rite (fourth left) for a group photo with health care workers and community health workers who participated in the training prepared by Ifakara Health Institute. PHOTO | JOSEPH MADATA/IHIcoms.
TRAINING: Ifakara trains 30 health workers on malnutrition
Ifakara Health Institute offered training on screening and management of acute malnutrition in children to health care workers and community health care workers.
The Institute, through a project known as ‘Attain Life,’ offer…