Tanzania - Page 2

Tanzania wants to transform itself from a country heavily dependent on imported medicines into a pharmaceutical manufacturing hub for East Africa, but the gap between that ambition and the country’s current industrial capacity remains enormous. The government has set an ambitious target

Tanzania is rapidly expanding digital health systems that collect enormous amounts of information about its citizens, but the growing role of foreign-funded technology and technical partners is raising a difficult question: who ultimately controls, stores and accesses Tanzania’s health data? The question

Africa continues to import most of the medicines it consumes, leaving countries such as Tanzania exposed to foreign supply chains even as governments across the continent increasingly talk about pharmaceutical self-sufficiency. The problem is particularly visible in Tanzania, where domestic pharmaceutical manufacturing

Tanzania’s long dependence on foreign financing for essential health programmes is coming under renewed scrutiny as changes in United States assistance expose weaknesses in the country’s ability to independently sustain services that have relied heavily on external support. For years, the U.S.