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Ministry of Health’s Director of Curative Services Commends Progress at NIMR Mabibo During Recent Visit Director of Curative Services from Ministry of Health, Prof. Paschal Ruggajo, accompanied by delegates from Traditional and Alternative Medicines Section visited NIMR Mabibo Traditional Medicine Centre on 22/05/2023. He toured Traditional Medicine production facility, Microbiology as well as Quality Control/Quality Assurance Laboratories. Speaking with NIMR management and staff, Prof. Ruggajo commended the progress of installation of equipment in the production factory and laboratory facilities as well as external construction works. Further, he promised to work with NIMR management to address the challenges presented. Previous image Next image

From Seminar to Solutions: Our Staff attend a seminar on corruption and Non-Communicable Diseases On 18th May 2023 a total of 110 employees from NIMR Centres and HQ were trained on how to fight and prevent corruption, preventing and treating mental health disorders as well as non-communicable diseases at workplace and the importance of physical exercises to fight diseases. The Seminar was officiated by NIMR Director General, Prof. Said Aboud and it was facilitated by trainers from PCCB, MUHAS and MNH. NIMR DG emphasized on integrity of staff and zero tolerance to corruption. Further he advised HRM to dedicate at least a day per week for staff to participate in the physical exercises.

JOINT TASK FORCE WORKSHOP FOR INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT OF HIV AND NCDs SCALING UP Photos of members attending the Joint Task Force workshop for Integrated Management of HIV and non-communicable diseases scaling up, upheld at Madinat Al Bahr Hotel in Zanzibar on 1st to 2nd May 2023. The workshop involved RESPOND AFRICA GROUP Researchers, NGOs, Implementing partners (IPs), and Policy makers from the MoH in Tanzania and Uganda. The workshop was officially opened by the Tanzania MoH’s Deputy Permanent Secretary, Dr Grace Magembe. This workshop is the continuation of the INTE-AFRICA trial findings dissemination workshop held in November 2022. INTE-AFRICA trial is one of the projects under NIMR Muhimbili

Commemoration of the Union Day at NIMR Tanga In celebrating 59 years of the Union between Tanganyika and Zanzibar, the centre continued with providing medical services to the community; diagnosis and treatment of Malaria and other related health threats were offered free. Apart from the free medical services given to the community NIMR Tanga staff participated in cleaning the environment surrounding the Tanga Regional Referral Hospital.  EVENT GALLERY

Commemoration of the World Malaria Day at NIMR Tanga In commemoration of the world Malaria day 25/4/2023 NIMR Tanga Centre conducted the following activities to the community; Health education, screening for NCDs (Weight, height, Blood pressure and glucose level measurements), Malaria diagnosis and treatment of positive individuals. The community had free medical services for other illnesses. This event took place at NIMR Tanga Grounds Bombo area. EVENT GALLERY

MALARIA DAY 2023 COMMEMORATION Time to Deliver Zero Malaria: Invest, Innovate, Implement The World Health Organisation (WHO) celebrates World Malaria Day each year on 25 April to underscore the collective energy and commitment of the global malaria community in uniting around the common goal of a malaria-free world. This year’s theme was “Time to Deliver Zero Malaria: Invest, Innovate, Implement”. Tanzania joined the rest of the World to observe this day in a two days event that took place at Mnazi Mmoja grounds in Dar-es-salaam from 24th to 25th of April. The Ministry of Health coordinated Malaria Day through the National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) and involved exhibitions from the hosts (NMCP) and other stakeholders involved in the fight against malaria, including research and academic institutions, non-governmental organisations, as well as international partners. Objective The objective of participating in this event was to showcase NIMR’s activities particularly the MSMT Project in the fight against malaria. Approach/plan NIMR participated in this event by poster presentations, exhibitions, participating in demonstrations and interaction with other partners against malaria, banners presentations, brochures and RDT screening for Malaria and Treatment of positive cases.

Commemoration of the Union Day at NIMR Amani On 25th April 2023, the NIMR Director General and staff cleaned the beach area along Barack Obama Street. This was one of the activities when commemorating the 59th Union Day for Tanzanganyika and Zanzibar EVENT GALLERY

Commemoration of the Union Day at NIMR Mwanza NIMR Mwanza Centre in celebrating the 59th Tanganyika and Zanzibar Union planted one hundred (100) trees between the 25th and 26th of April 2023.  This was done at the NIMR Mwanza Health Centre premises around Kitangiri in Mwanza City. EVENT GALLERY

Commemoration of the Union Day at NIMR Mabibo On 26th April 2023, NIMR Traditional Medicine Research Centre celebrated union day by promoting health research interests and conducting health promotion activities among primary school children. These activities involved about 250 pupils and 8 teachers from both Makuburi and Mabibo primary schools. The overall motive of the center is to promotion science subjects and healthy diets among young generations. Accordingly, throughout the day the pupils who visited the Center were given a rare opportunity to listen to senior scientists about several health research success stories, including, the discovery of new drugs, upgrading our traditional remedies to modern standards, NIMR involvement in the discovery of impregnated mosquito net, etc. Later, they toured NIMR research laboratories and factory facilities to appreciate the state-of-the-art pieces of equipment and machines and get inspired to want to use them in the future. Simultaneously, with verbal consent from their guardian, about 232 pupils received free assessments of their nutritional status. Then, each assessed pupil received individualized nutritional advise from the Center’s medical doctors. Interestingly, the majority of these pupils had normal nutritional status. Assessment of nutritional status accompanied with promoting NIMR’s health drink-the NIMRVIT. Later in the day, the pupils played their favorite games –the questions and answers game. The scientists asked pupils questions relating to union day, NIMR functions and its establishment, malaria, and cholera-the contemporary health topics. Winners were those pupils who responded correctly and were awarded a NIMRVIT juice. The game turned out to be the most exciting event of the day where each pupil was eager to demonstrate his/her knowledge about NIMR and current issues in health. Finally, the head teacher assessed pupil’s level of interest to become a health research scientist by asking those who wished to become one to put their hands up, Surprisingly, nearly all 250 pupils were excited to become health research scientists one day. EVENT GALLERY

Commemoration of the Union Day at NIMR Dodoma Photos showing NIMR-Dodoma staff doing cleanliness as one of the activities to commemorate the 59th Union Day of Tanganyika and Zanzibar EVENT GALLERY