While visiting a district hospital about an hour outside of Dar es Salaam we spoke to the district AIDS coordinator, who spoke about the importance of integrating HIV and AIDS services into the services of the hospital as it doesn’t make sense for people to have to visit different facilities. As you can see from [...]

It’s our third straight day of nonstop rain and all the Tanzanians are saying that it never rains like this without letting up at some point. Nonetheless, I seem to be the only one surprised when the streets flood: everyone else just gets on with it and wades through the deluge. This morning we’ve been [...]

With a stable government, and health a specific priority, Tanzania is almost certainly considered a ‘darling’ of foreign aid. Before the visit, I’d read about some of the country’s recent successes in improving its health indicators: rates of malaria and tuberculosis have all declined while immunisations and child survival have gone up. But despite the [...]