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📝WORKSHOP: Advancing human rabies vaccine integration 💉🌍 🏥 From April 23–24, 2025, Ifakara Health Institute, through the SOS and GAVI PEP projects 🌍💉, hosted a Process Mapping Workshop in Dar es Salaam 📍— attended by stakeholders from national and local levels 🤝 to evaluate and


🧬DISCOVERY: 🦟New distinct mosquito found along Tanzania's coast 🌊🇹🇿 🌍 Scientists at Ifakara Health Institute & global partners – University of Glasgow & Wellcome Sanger Institute – have uncovered a new mosquito species on Tanzania’s coast – the Pwani molecular form. It’s genetically unique & reacts


📚 CURRICULUM REVIEW: Setting the stage for future public health pros 👩⚕️🧑⚕️ 🌍✨ @Ifakarahealth wrapped up a successful 4-day curriculum review in Morogoro, aimed at enhancing its master’s programme run in collaboration with the nmaist _official in Bagamoyo, Tanzania. 📚 🏫 This vital



📝 BLOG: Why this new mosquito discovery matters to YOU! 🧐 🌍💥 🆕 This new Ifakara Health Institute blog is based on the latest #MolecularEcology journal article 📚 which reports the discovery of a new, distinct mosquito species 🦟along 🇹🇿Tanzania’s coast 🌊 – named pwani for now 🔬.



🐕RABIES: 🌍Optimizing supply chains for lifesaving vaccines 💉 🐶Rabies kills — but it doesn’t have to. A new study led by University of Glasgow, Ifakara Health Institute and partners, shows how smarter vaccine delivery could save thousands of lives every year. 💉🌍 Simple changes — like



💉IMMUNIZATION: 🔬 Some 🇹🇿 kids miss full vaccine protection 🛡️ 📢 Thousands of Tanzanian kids are missing their full protection from 5 deadly diseases. A new Ifakara Health Institute and WHO Tanzania study reveals why some children don’t complete the standard “pentavalent” vaccine. 💉


💡 SYMPOSIUM: Experts unite to tackle neurological disorders 🧠🤝 📆 Yesterday, Tanzania Immunology Society, in collaboration with Ifakara Health Institute and partners, hosted the 2025 Day of Immunology Symposium in Bagamoyo. Held under the global theme “Brain and Immunity – Immunological Insights


📰 MTAFITI: 🎉 The April 2025 edition is HERE! 🗞️ 📚 "MTAFITI" - Ifakara Health Institute's monthly news and events round-up for April 2025 – is OUT! This issue spotlights a powerful call for urgent reforms to fully include people with disabilities in health research. ♿🤝🌍 Together,


🛠️COMMEMORATION: 🎉Happy International Workers’ Day 2025! 🌍 👷🏽♀️👨🏾🔧 👨💻 We, Ifakara Health Institute, wishes all our stakeholders a Happy Workers Day! Today—and every day—we celebrate the dedication of our staff, collaborators, partners and all other stakeholders who power our mission of


📄 REPORT: ⚠️ Millions at risk if health services don’t improve 📉 The latest The Lancet Countdown to 2030 report warns that the world is off track to meet key health goals, with women, children, and adolescents—especially in sub-Saharan Africa—remaining at risk due to weak


🤝 ENGAGEMENT: 👶 Newborn care program partners meet in Dar Today, NEST360 and partners—including Wizara ya Afya Tanzania 🇹🇿, OFISI YA RAIS TAMISEMI, and Regional Health Management Teams (RHMTs)—came together to review Phase 2 progress, share feedback 🗣️, and strategize on practical steps to


