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Dar es Salaam. The Aga Khan Health Institute has signed an agreement with Elekta Company for the procurement and installation of radiation therapy equipment that will better cancer screening and treatment in the country.

The equipment which cost between €4.5 million (Sh10.8 billion) to €5 million (Sh12 billion) will have the capacity to treat 50 to 75 patients within eight working hours.

The agreement, aimed at enabling the institute to acquire one of the world’s most advanced machines, will improve the provision of quality health services to Tanzanians.

Volunteers from the Ismaili Community have teamed up with technical staff from the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) to establish microforest in Dar es Salaam, an initiative geared to slow down effects of climate change.

The project will also be implemented in 35 secondary schools located in Dar es Salaam, Lindi as well as in Zanzibar.

Tanzania Daily News (Dar es Salaam)
By James Kamala
The Aga Khan Hospital has raised a red flag over an appalling trend of the Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) upon learning from patients seeking treatment at the hospital and its allied health centres.

The hospital noted that most patients they attended to were diagnosed with different types of NCDs.

THE government has reaffirmed its commitment to continue working closely with the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) in all areas of mutual interest.

The Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation, Ambassador Mbarouk Nassor Mbarouk expressed the commitment this week when the organisation celebrated the 65th anniversary of the ascension of Aga Khan to the Ismaili Imamat in Dar es Salaam.

Mtwara. The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), in cooperation with the European Union (EU), has given a Sh188.32 million subsidy to entrepreneurs in Lindi and Mtwara regions in order to help them encounter economic effects brought about by the Covid-19.

The subsidy is part of a project run jointly by the EU and Aga Khan to encounter the effects of the Covid-19 in the four nations of Tanzania, Kenya Uganda and Mozambique.

At least 112 groups with a total of 1,290 members in the regions have benefited from the subsidy.

Arusha. Children of pastoralist communities in the Arusha region hope to start benefiting from the nurturing and development projects that are being implemente by the Aga Khan University (AKU).

The three-year project was launched on Wednesday April 27, by Arusha Regional Commissioner John Mongella who called on all government institutions in the region to help in supporting the project.

Honourable Ummy Mwalimu, Honourable Minister of Health of the United Republic of Tanzania,

Ms Stephanie Mouen, Country Director, Agence Française de Développement,

President and Vice Chancellor of AKU and fellow members of AKU Board of Trustees,

Distinguished Guests, Ladies, Gentlemen and Friends,

Jambo and Karibu and Ramadan Kareem

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 10 April 2022 – The Aga Khan Hospital, Dar es Salaam laid the foundation stone for its state-of-the-art cancer care centre, which will serve as a key hub for the innovative Tanzania Comprehensive Cancer Project (TCCP). The Project, launched by the Aga Khan Health Services (AKHS) in January 2020, has the goal of reducing cancer morbidity and mortality in Dar es Salaam and Mwanza.

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 10 April 2022 – The Aga Khan Hospital, Dar es Salaam laid the foundation stone for its state-of-the-art cancer care centre, which will serve as a key hub for the innovative Tanzania Comprehensive Cancer Project (TCCP). The Project, launched by the Aga Khan Health Services (AKHS) in January 2020, has the goal of reducing cancer morbidity and mortality in Dar es Salaam and Mwanza.

NEWS: 2022, april 10: PRINCESS ZAHRA IN TANZANIA: Princess Zahra visited the Aga Khan Hospital this Saturday as part of a short trip in Tanzania for AKDN and AKUH work that will take her to a day trip to Zanzibar Sunday 10 April 2022 before she leaves from Dar es Salaam the next day. More photos and video : see link below.

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Tanzania Daily News (Dar es Salaam)

Medical Research (NIMR) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Aga Khan Health Services in Tanzania (AKHST) to collaborate in health research and information sharing.

The MoU which was signed in Dar es Salaam on Tuesday opened a new beginning in health research chapter by supporting programmes which are being executed by both institutions with the aim of improving treatment and medication in Tanzania.

Mwanza. The Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) in collaboration with the French Development Agency (AFD) last week handed over a breast cancer screening machine worth Sh800 million to Bugando Medical Centre (BMC).

The machine was procured under a four-year Tanzania Comprehensive Cancer project which is under the two development agencies, according to the project manager, Dr Harrison Chuwa.

The inauguration of the machine was held at Bugando hospital in Mwanza Region where over 20 people would be diagnosed.

Speaking during a dinner gala that was part of year-long celebrations of Diamond Jubilee on June 25, 2018 at Parliament grounds, Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa said the government needed world-class facilities in Dodoma, adding that the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) has what it takes to help.

Dodoma. The government has extended an invitation to his Highness the Aga Khan to visit Dodoma and help the authorities to come up with some world class investment facilities befitting a capital city.

Tanzania Daily News (Dar es Salaam)

The Pakistan Navy Ship PNS ALAMGIR is scheduled to hold a 'free medical camp' in Dar es Salaam as part of a goodwill visit in Tanzania, a statement from the Embassy of Pakistan said on Wednesday.

The Medical Camp is being organized at the Aga Khan Diamond Jubilee Hall, Malik Road, Upanga, Dar es Salaam, from 10 a.m. to 03 p.m. for two days on January 11 and 12, 2022.

The Aga Khan Diamond Jubilee Hall is offered on a complimentary basis as a humanitarian gesture by the Aga Khan Development Network Tanzania for the Pakistan Navy's Free Medical Camp.