Tanzania Health News API

Get the live top health headlines from Tanzania with one request to the Top Headlines endpoint of GNews API. Headlines are based on Google News rankings and returned as 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);
}

On the Free plan, browsers can only call the API from localhost: see Using the API in the FAQ.

<?php

$apiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

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

$response = file_get_contents("https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?" . $params);
if ($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": 8822,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "ec36b828d170c2c1816a6299e908b609",
            "title": "Neurophet Partners with RapidAI to Accelerate AI",
            "description": "Neurophet Partners with RapidAI to Accelerate AI-Powered Alzheimer’s Imaging Solutions in the US",
            "content": "Neurophet, an artificial intelligence (AI) solution company for brain disorders diagnosis and treatment, announced a partnership with RapidAI, a global leader in enterprise clinical AI, to integrate Neurophet's advanced neurodegenerative brain imagin... [3013 chars]",
            "url": "https://biopharmaapac.com/news/21/8634/neurophet-partners-with-rapidai-to-accelerate-ai-powered-alzheimers-imaging-solutions-in-the-us.html",
            "image": "https://biopharmaapac.com/uploads/articles/images_2-8634.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-04T01:07:30Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "947e7f5abbffaf769113897d5122cbcc",
                "name": "BioPharma APAC",
                "url": "https://biopharmaapac.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "6ed64048fbf706492a9b93f048137290",
            "title": "Asundexian and the Role of Factor XIa Inhibition in Secondary Stroke Prevention",
            "description": "Raed Joundi, MD, discusses the implications of his substudy of OCEANIC-STROKE and how it could change secondary prevention in ischemic stroke care.",
            "content": "These data were presented at the World Stroke Congress (WSC) 2026 in Seoul, South Korea, by Raed Joundi, MD, assistant professor in the department of medicine at McMaster University, scientist in the Brain Health research program at the Population He... [3740 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.hcplive.com/view/asundexian-and-the-role-of-factor-xia-inhibition-in-secondary-stroke-prevention",
            "image": "https://cdn.sanity.io/images/0vv8moc6/hcplive/0ae0cd11f726f76799067e4a3c5a407ae50d9831-1200x628.png?w=1200&fit=max&q=75&fm=png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T18:30:36Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "fdb44255685fc0ff4da1d8b3d77003bf",
                "name": "HCPLive",
                "url": "https://www.hcplive.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "1a13964132e5bca4a5c1d92673cf4515",
            "title": "Ramesh Ferris wants you to look at his legs - and understand why ending polio matters",
            "description": "Ramesh contracted polio at just six months old in India. Adopted by a Canadian family and raised in the Yukon, he underwent multiple surgeries and years of",
            "content": "Ramesh contracted polio at just six months old in India. Adopted by a Canadian family and raised in the Yukon, he underwent multiple surgeries and years of rehabilitation, eventually learning to walk with crutches and leg braces.\nA return visit to In... [966 chars]",
            "url": "https://polioeradication.org/news/ramesh-ferris-wants-you-to-look-at-his-legs-and-understand-why-ending-polio-matters/",
            "image": "https://polioeradication.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/ramesh-ferris-wants-you-to-look-at-his-legs-and-understand-why-ending-polio-matters.jpeg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T18:20:03Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "cf4383cea3c8d5b5011142e52e452c59",
                "name": "Global Polio Eradication",
                "url": "https://polioeradication.org"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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