Health

UN health agency provides news, information and statistics on the country's public health issues and services, professional health workers, disease outbreaks, and government legislation and expenditures.

Tanzania Food and Drugs Authority (TFDA) is a regulatory body under the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare which is responsible for regulating the quality and safety of food, drugs, cosmetics and medical devices.

District health services and resources in Tanzania This website contains comprehensive information on district health in Tanzania. It is a place to access and share information and to get inspired to perform better in the district.

Tanzania is one of the countries hard hit by HIV/AIDS epidemic. Recent reports from the Ministry of Health indicate that since the first 3 cases were reported in 1983 a total 118,713 cases have been reported from health facilities in the country by the end of the year 1999. It is however estimated that cumulatively about 600,000 have developed HIV/AIDS, and about 2 million people have been infected with the HIV/AIDS virus.

The National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) is the first and currently the largest Social Health Insurance scheme in Tanzania to offer a wide range of attractive, comprehensive and cost effective Benefit package to more than 5.6 percent of the total population with respect to year 2002 population census.

The National AIDS Control Programme (NACP) was a Programme under the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOH & SW) in Tanzania.

MSD, medical stores department is committed to provide quality service closer to the people.

Madaktari is medical training and education for the developing world. Physicians training physicians. Health care workers training health care workers. And, those people, in turn, training others. All to create local, sustainable systems of health care, led by the people who live there.

The current gap between the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDFs) and the state of health indicators in East Africa warns of an impending public health failure and is evidence of the need for a stronger public health workforce. The Leadership Initiative for Public Health in East Africa (LIPHEA) is, therefore, strategically positioned to contribute to the process of building a competent and committed generation of public health professionals. The initiative aims to strengthen the capacity of Makerere University School of Public Health (MUSPH) and Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences (MUCHS) to not only provide effective public health leadership for Uganda and Tanzania, but also to catalyze the training of public health leaders in the whole region.

Lab Equip Ltd., established in the year 1987, is one of the East Africa’s major importers and suppliers of Hospital, Medical, Laboratory, Glass wares, Diagnostics, Biomedical, Dental, Scientific, Research Instruments & Equipments, Chemicals, Reagents, etc. Lab Equip Ltd is now ISO Certified Company.