Tanzania Health News API

Get the live top health headlines from Tanzania with one request to the Top Headlines endpoint of GNews API. Stories are selected by Google News rankings and returned as clean JSON.

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This request returns the current top health headlines from Tanzania. The response below is live: it was fetched when this page loaded. Every parameter is described in the Top Headlines endpoint documentation.

GET https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category=health&country=tz&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=health" \
  --data-urlencode "country=tz" \
  --data-urlencode "apikey=YOUR_API_KEY"

import requests

API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY"

response = requests.get(
    "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines",
    params={"category": "health", "country": "tz", "apikey": API_KEY},
    timeout=10,
)
response.raise_for_status()

for article in response.json()["articles"]:
    print(article["title"])

const API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY";

const params = new URLSearchParams({
    category: "health",
    country: "tz",
    apikey: API_KEY,
});

const response = await fetch(`https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?${params}`);
if (!response.ok) {
    throw new Error(`Request failed: ${response.status}`);
}

const { articles } = await response.json();
for (const article of articles) {
    console.log(article.title);
}

<?php

$apiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

$query = http_build_query([
    "category" => "health",
    "country"  => "tz",
    "apikey"   => $apiKey,
]);

$response = file_get_contents("https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?" . $query);
if ($response === false) {
    throw new RuntimeException("Request failed");
}

$data = json_decode($response, true);
foreach ($data["articles"] as $article) {
    echo $article["title"] . PHP_EOL;
}

using System.Net.Http.Json;

const string ApiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

using var client = new HttpClient();

var url = $"https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category=health&country=tz&apikey={ApiKey}";
var data = await client.GetFromJsonAsync<ApiResponse>(url)
           ?? throw new InvalidOperationException("Empty response");

foreach (var article in data.Articles)
{
    Console.WriteLine(article.Title);
}

record ApiResponse(List<Article> Articles);
record Article(string Title);

200 OK · Live JSON response

{
    "totalArticles": 8920,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "aa314d33cb330153a97c630669020592",
            "title": "Neighborhood conditions linked to childhood cancer survivors' long-term health",
            "description": "Survivors of childhood cancer can make lifestyle changes to reduce later-in-life chronic health conditions, such as diabetes and heart disease. Still, some survivors report local environmental barriers to taking these actions. According to a new study from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists, survivors from the most vulnerable neighborhoods—those with features including low income per capita, poor walkability, a lack of access to nearby health care or fewer healthy food options—have a significantly elevated risk. The findings, published recently in eClinicalMedicine, identify a need to consider these community-level factors to better support survivors.",
            "content": "Survivors of childhood cancer can make lifestyle changes to reduce later-in-life chronic health conditions, such as diabetes and heart disease. Still, some survivors report local environmental barriers to taking these actions. According to a new stud... [3426 chars]",
            "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-10-neighborhood-conditions-linked-childhood-cancer.html",
            "image": "https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/hires/2026/bad-neighborhood.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T21:10:10Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "fc12437cc984742bf9a97820262ab48a",
                "name": "Medical Xpress",
                "url": "https://medicalxpress.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "51578d02343a2138793007f9ebb9f7f9",
            "title": "Maternal vaccination helps protect newborns from deadly bacterial bloodstream infections, mouse study suggests",
            "description": "Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that a vaccine given to pregnant mice protected their newborn pups from a severe bloodstream infection caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae, a dangerous bacterium that kills thousands of infants in low- and middle-income countries each year and is the leading killer of children globally.",
            "content": "Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that a vaccine given to pregnant mice protected their newborn pups from a severe bloodstream infection caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae, a dangerous bacterium that kills thousa... [3648 chars]",
            "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-10-maternal-vaccination-newborns-deadly-bacterial.html",
            "image": "https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/2026/vaccinating-moms-prote.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T18:00:12Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "fc12437cc984742bf9a97820262ab48a",
                "name": "Medical Xpress",
                "url": "https://medicalxpress.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "7337c3f4abc47909354aef2573874821",
            "title": "Study Reassures on Benzodiazepines in Early Pregnancy",
            "description": "Past research on congenital malformations has been mixed",
            "content": "Benzodiazepine exposure in early pregnancy wasn't associated with congenital malformations, a large cohort study showed.\nAcross more than 4 million pregnancies, children born to women who filled a benzodiazepine prescription during the first trimeste... [4678 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.medpagetoday.com/obgyn/pregnancy/123407",
            "image": "https://assets.medpagetoday.net/media/images/123xxx/123407.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T17:50:19Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "572d25e23e12ec1560e8ee1884a7057a",
                "name": "MedPage Today",
                "url": "https://www.medpagetoday.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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