Events Honor President Kikwete and other Vital Tanzanian Partners

Two events in New York and London this month highlighted the Touch Foundation's close relationship with the Tanzanian and US governments as well as with private sector partners engaged in Tanzania.

Tanzanian M.D. Student Shares His Story

Omare Boniface Atandi, a first year M.D. student at Weill Bugando university, gave the following letter to the Touch Foundation last week. 

Tanzanian Healthcare Receives International Attention

The three-part series in the The New York Times on maternal healthcare rightly identifies a deadly bottleneck preventing thousands of women from receiving medical attention in Tanzania: the severe shortage of health workers.

Podcast interview on US global health spending

The Council on Foreign Relations interviews Lee Wells, Touch Foundation Director of External Affairs, on the importance of health worker training in improving basic health care. Listen to the podcast. 

The New York Times highlights maternal health in Tanzania

The New York Times reports on the challenges associated with preventing and treating fistula, a physically debilitating and socially stigmatizing childbirth complication, in Africa. The article notes that community education, improved transportation, and greater access to hospitals, doctors and midwives are desperately needed.