1. Le rapatriement et la réintégration des réfugiés burundais.

2. Protection et assistance de 31 398 réfugiés et demandeurs d'asile, dont 18 837 Congolais installés dans les camps de Bwagiriza (Ruyigi), de Gasorwe (Muyinga), de Musasa (Ngozi). 240 réfugiés Rwandais vivent dans le camp de Giharo (Rutana). Le HCR au Burundi assiste sous diverses formes et veille également à la protection de quelque 12 227 réfugiés urbains et demandeurs d'asile, dont 99 % sont originaires de la République Démocratique du Congo (RDC).

Background

Preventing malaria by controlling mosquitoes in their larval stages requires regular sensitive monitoring of vector populations and intervention coverage. The study assessed the effectiveness of operational, community-based larval habitat surveillance systems within the Urban Malaria Control Programme (UMCP) in urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Methods

Cross-sectional surveys were carried out to assess the ability of community-owned resource persons (CORPs) to detect mosquito breeding sites and larvae in areas with and without larviciding.

WASHINGTON, December 22, 2009 - The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors today approved an additional International Development Association (IDA) credit of US$40 million for the second phase of Tanzania's Health Sector Development Project (HSDP II).

HSDP II, which has been operational for five years, received additional financing of US$60 million in 2007. This additional financing will be used to provide an extra contribution to the Health Basket Fund of US$15 million per year for each of the 2009/10 and 2010/11 Government of Tanzania fiscal years.

Background

Directly observed therapy (DOT) remains the cornerstone of the global tuberculosis (TB) control strategy. Tanzania, one of the 22 high-burden countries regarding TB, changed the first-line treatment regimen to contain rifampicin-containing fixed-dose combination for the full 6 months of treatment. As daily health facility-based DOT for this long period is not feasible for the patient, nor for the health system, Tanzania introduced patient centred treatment (PCT). PCT allows patients to choose for daily DOT at a health facility or at their home

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, 18 December 2009 - The UN has been stepping up its reform efforts to ensure greater coherence to its work, more efficiency and less bureaucracy for all its partners, more effective sharing of knowledge and data, and greater accountability for measuring and reporting results. To this end, in Tanzania, UN agencies have adopted a new and more efficient way of buying the supplies that they require.

The new approach is increasing efficiency, cutting delivery times and generating savings - all of which are central to UN reform.

Large parts of Turkana in northern Kenya, virtually the whole of Somaliland, and the Central Highlands and the Ogaden of Ethiopia have received less than five per cent of normal rainfall in November*. In parts of Turkana there has been just 12mm of rain in the last three months. Many parts of the northern Somaliland region have had

For decades, Kigoma and Kagera have hosted hundreds of thousands of refugees from the surrounding Great Lakes area, including from Congo, Burundi and Rwanda.

The presence of refugees has had both positive and negative consequences for the hosting communities.

On the positive side, the massive humanitarian operation that was set up to provide services to the refugee camps have

On December 26, 2004, millions of people from Southeast Asia to East Africa experienced one of the worst natural disasters in modern history. In a matter of minutes, the tsunami killed more than 230,000 people, and millions more watched as their homes, shops, boats, places of worship and schools disappeared into an inconceivably powerful wave.

The magnitude of destruction caused by the Indian Ocean Tsunami resulted in an unprecedented outpouring of generosity from donors worldwide. The American Red Cross alone received $581 million.