Tanzania

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Since 1999, our focus has been on quality health services for families.

  • More than 4.5 million Tanzanians have learned their HIV status through Jhpiego-led initiatives and 1 million men have received voluntary medical male circumcision services for HIV prevention.
  • Over 84,000 women have been screened for cervical cancer, with 98% of the 2,384 women identified as having precancerous lesions and eligible for cryotherapy treated.
  • More than 2.8 million antenatal care visits and more than 1.9 million deliveries took place at Jhpiego-supported health care facilities.
  • More than 10,000 health care providers in over 1,800 facilities countrywide have the skills to competently provide high-quality antenatal care and basic emergency obstetric and newborn care to pregnant women.

Our Technical Areas in Tanzania

Our Work in Tanzania

USAID Afya Yangu-RMNCAH

This five-year, government-led project is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development. Afya Yangu seeks to improve access to quality, client-centered reproductive, maternal, child and adolescent health (RMNCAH) services at facility and community levels. The project also works for an enhanced enabling environment, improved health-seeking behaviors, strengthened linkages between facility and community health services, improved positive gender norms in support of services uptake and increased community engagement in RMNCAH services. In partnership with the Ministry of Health, Jhpiego leads the project team, which consists of: local partners Tanzania Communication and Development Center, Benjamin Mkapa Foundation and Amani Girls Home; Kenya-based AI-Fluence; and U.S.-based organizations Manoff Group, Ona and D-tree International.

MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership

Moving Integrated, Quality Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and Family Planning and Reproductive Health Services to Scale (MOMENTUM) is a suite of projects, funded by USAID, that aims to accelerate reductions in maternal, newborn and child mortality and morbidity in high-burden countries by increasing host country commitment and capacity to provide high-quality, integrated health care. Each of the projects has a specific focus area; together they provide a comprehensive, flexible package of support for countries as they overcome context-specific health challenges towards sustainable development. The five-year, Jhpiego-led MOMENTUM 2A project focuses on: 1) providing targeted technical and capacity development assistance to our missions, partner countries and local organizations; and 2) contributing to global technical leadership and policy dialogue for improved maternal, newborn and child health, voluntary family planning and reproductive health outcomes. Jhpiego’s 12 sub-partners under MOMENTUM 2A are: Save the Children, Johns Hopkins University International Vaccine Access Center, The Manoff Group, Quicksand, Matchboxology, BAO Systems, Avenir Health, McKinsey and Company, PACT, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Christian Connections for International Health and Ubora Quality Institute. In Tanzania, Jhpiego and IVAC are supporting the Government of Tanzania to enhance sustainability practices and strengthen technical rigor of pre-service education at government health training institutions as well as immunization programming in targeted geographies.

The Challenge Initiative (TCI) NextGen

As the implementing partner responsible for leading TCI’s East Africa Accelerator Hub, Jhpiego provides technical assistance to local governments in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda as they implement interventions in family planning and adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health. The goal of TCI NextGen, which builds on the previous TCI initiative, is to increase access to modern contraception for urban poor women. This project is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health.

 

The people we serve

Community Engagement Increases COVID Vaccination Rates in Tanzania 

Chamwino, Tanzania — It took a home visit from a community health worker for Christine Matinya, a mother of four, to overcome the misinformation and doubts she had about the COVID vaccine.    “Previously, I heard that the vaccine causes one to get crippled. I also heard that a woman would not be able to conceive

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Covid vaccine

Meet Manthomeng Matete

Meet Manthomeng Matete, who coordinates the Community and Universal Testing for TB among Contacts (CUT-TB) study in Lesotho. A three-country study, CUT-TB is evaluating new contact tracing strategies with the ultimate aim of improving case detection. Jhpiego leads the study in Lesotho in partnership with The Aurum Institute. What problems is study hoping to solve?

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When Competent Midwives Lead, Women and Babies Survive

Miswaki Village, Tanzania—When her water broke, Helena Paschal was alone at home. Although her due date was several weeks away, she knew the labor was real. “I felt a sharp pain around my waist. I sensed the baby was coming,” she recalled. There was no time to call a neighbor or do anything but just

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A Lifesaving Technique in Safe Surgery Project

Kagera, Kagondo – During the last month of her pregnancy, Zainab Abas visited Kagondo Hospital and learned from an ultrasound that she was having twins. One was head down, but the other was in the breech position, bottom down. Initially shocked, she was counseled about delivery by cesarean section, often necessary for breech babies, and

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The Face of an AIDS-Free Generation: Jilala Shusha is one in a million

Singida Region, Tanzania—Jilala Shusha’s personal milestone says a lot about his country’s commitment to delivering on the promise of  an AIDS-free generation. At 17, Jilala decided to be circumcised, even though traditional circumcision is not practiced by his family, who are migrant herders of goats and cattle. With support and informed consent from his family,

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HIV prevention

2020: Year of the Nurse and Midwife

Nurses and midwives play an essential role in ensuring a healthier world for everyone, everywhere. These skilled, determined health workers make up the majority of our health workforce. They are the backbone of our shared goals for universal health coverage, and the foundation to our efforts to extend primary health care services to all.

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It’s a Hit: Everyone Is Talking about Family Planning

Leah and her husband

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Tanzania nurse

A Lifesaving Recipe

Leah and her husband

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LEah and her husband

At the Center of Primary Health Care

Nurses Protect Girls from the Leading Cancer Killer of Women in Tanzania.

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Tanzania Reaches 800,000 Men with VMMC Services

Tanzania’s voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) program, AIDSFree, has made incredible progress since its inception in 2009. In partnership with John Snow Inc., under U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) sponsorship, Jhpiego is working with the Tanzanian Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children to rapidly expand the provision of high-quality, client-centered VMMC

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Sauti project delivers HIV medicine to rural communities

The Sauti project, led by Jhpiego in partnership with with EngenderHealth, Pact and the National Institute for Medical Research-Mwanza, provides a community-based service to bring HIV medication to clients who have been taking ART for at least six months, report good adherence and show minimal levels of the virus in their blood or suppressed viral load. The initiative is part of the government of Tanzania’s commitment to provide quality health services to its citizens, especially those who live in remote or rural areas, reduce the transmission of HIV and, ultimately, save lives. The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief funds the project through the U.S. Agency for International Development.

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Revitalizing Nursing and Midwifery Education in Tanzania

With support from USAID’s flagship Maternal and Child Survival Program, nursing and midwifery students in Tanzania benefit from new computers, well-stocked libraries and aptly-equipped clinical skills labs.

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Woman holding newborn doll as student midwife practices.

A Ticket To Health!

Jhpiego, with funding from Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in partnership with the Government of Tanzania, aims to reach tens of thousands of young girls with HPV vaccinations.

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“Diagnose One, Link One”: Linking Clients to Care in Tanzania

In hotspot areas such as Tandale, key and vulnerable populations are most at risk of HIV infection. The World Health Organization and others define key and vulnerable populations as adolescents and young women, sex workers, people who inject drugs, men who have sex with men, transgender persons and prisoners.

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Facing the HIV Triple Threat

Mery faces a daily challenge — how not to join the 1,000 young women diagnosed with HIV each day. The Sauti Project in Tanzania is supporting her decision to stay healthy with prevention services and more.

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A Friendly, Timely Intervention

Njombe Town, Tanzania—Sarafina Haule had just turned 20 when a short-lived “fling” with a traveling tree cutter left her pregnant and without support. The affair also left her with HIV.

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A Gift That Keeps on Giving—How Zawadi Got Her Name

Lilian Novati was dreading a return to the overcrowded maternity ward where she had given birth years ago. Imagine her surprise at finding not only a renovated ward, but better care, too.

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Tanzania HIV Prevention Initiative Nears VMMC Goals

Working in three high HIV-prevalence districts, Jhpiego and partners reach men and youth with an effective package of HIV prevention services that includes voluntary medical male circumcision.

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Country Contact

Alice Christensen, Country Director

Tel. 255 756 88 83 88

P.O. Box 9170

House No. 7, Serengeti Street, Mikocheni

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Current and Recent Donors

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Elton John AIDS Foundation

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance

GE Foundation

Global Affairs Canada

PEPFAR

UNICEF

USAID