Tag: Tanzania

  • Nation & World

    A world of potential

    Harvard faculty members have traveled the world lately, making exploratory trips that will enable students’ own global adventures in the years to come.

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  • Nation & World

    A sense of direction for Africa

    The Kennedy School brought together three voices of leadership in Africa to talk about the continent’s past and future.

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  • Nation & World

    Ministering to health

    Ministers of health from around the world came to the Harvard Kennedy School this week as part of a leadership workshop, co-sponsored with the School of Public Health, to improve health leadership globally.

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  • Nation & World

    Saving women during childbirth

    Throughout history, more women have died in childbirth than men have died in battle, Mahmoud Fathalla, founder of the Safe Motherhood Initiative, told attendees at the recent Global Maternal Health Conference in Arusha, Tanzania, co-sponsored by Harvard School of Public Health’s Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) and Management and Development for Health (MDH), a Tanzanian…

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  • Nation & World

    Senior named Global Health Fellow

    Harvard College senior Mary Davies ’13 has been named a Global Health Fellow with Medical Missionaries.

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    In Africa, success against AIDS

    AIDS researchers gathered at the Harvard School of Public Health to mark 10 years of work under a landmark federal anti-AIDS program that has led to significant progress against the epidemic.

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  • Nation & World

    Tech solutions for Tanzanian health care

    A group of Harvard computer science students traveled to Tanzania in January to lend their programming skills to the mission of improving health care there. The trip included founders and the first cohort of fellows for a new program begun by the student group Tech in the World.

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  • Nation & World

    With health rights denied, a patient had no hope

    Those interested in health and human rights from around the world gathered at the Harvard School of Public Health this week for an executive education program intended to provide practical lessons in rights litigation and create a community for those who care about extending health care to all.

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  • Nation & World

    Tanzania-HSPH AIDS clinic opens

    U.S. and Tanzanian government officials opened a new research and treatment center for Tanzania’s sickest AIDS patients Friday (July 22), to be operated by Tanzanian health officials in partnership with the Harvard School of Public Health.

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  • Nation & World

    Sick to death

    Harvard School of Public Health researchers are mounting a major study of chronic disease in four African nations, which organizers hope will provide a foundation for understanding and treating chronic ailments like heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.

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  • Nation & World

    Wanted: Doctors for Africa

    Esther Mwaikambo is used to starting small. Until her teaching hospital was started in 1997, there was only one medical school in Tanzania, graduating 25 to 40 doctors annually.

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    HSPH expands HIV/AIDS work in Tanzania

    Nearly 150 years ago, the Tanzanian city of Dar es Salaam was known by another name — Mzizima, meaning “healthy town” in the local language. But over the decades, the city and the country of Tanzania have experienced mounting challenges to that health.

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    Tackling tradition and taboos

    Mary Gitagno plainly remembers the pain of her traditional Tanzanian tribe’s female circumcision ritual. It is a pain she determined her own daughters would never feel. In the years since, Gitagno went far beyond sparing her daughters from female genital mutilation, beginning a nonprofit organization to lobby the government and educate the public about the…

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