Tanzania

For two decades, we've partnered with Tanzania’s Ministry of Health and Social Welfare and the private sector to strengthen the country's health workforce, increase access to and quality of health services, and improve the health and well-being of Tanzania's 45 million citizens.

We've worked with our partners and Tanzania’s frontline health workers to prevent HIV, provide family planning and reproductive health services, leverage technology and data for stronger decision-making, and help health officials plan for, recruit, and deploy an effective health workforce.

We value strong partnerships, sustainability, and creative solutions that work—and it shows in our results in Tanzania.

Key Results

Nearly 2,000 people received care and treatment for gender-based violence.

Over 1,045,000 men and boys have opted for medical circumcision.

Over 2 million people tested for HIV.

Selected Achievements

Reached more than 1,045,000 boys and men in Tanzania with voluntary medical male circumcision since 2011.

Increased family planning knowledge in policymakers and trainers by 40% after workshops on the Training Resource Package in Tanzania and Uganda

Averted 13,000+ new HIV infections in Tanzania by providing voluntary medical male circumcision services to men and boys.

In its second year alone, IntraHealth’s ToharaPlus project provided circumcision services to 305,718 men, 33% of all PEPFAR-supported VMMC services that year—the highest of all implementing partners in the country.

Provided HIV testing and counseling to over 1 million people in Tanzania.

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Tanzania Country Brief

Tanzania

Key Results

Selected Achievements

Reached more than 1,045,000 boys and men in Tanzania with voluntary medical male circumcision since 2011.

Increased family planning knowledge in policymakers and trainers by 40% after workshops on the Training Resource Package in Tanzania and Uganda

Averted 13,000+ new HIV infections in Tanzania by providing voluntary medical male circumcision services to men and boys.

In its second year alone, IntraHealth’s ToharaPlus project provided circumcision services to 305,718 men, 33% of all PEPFAR-supported VMMC services that year—the highest of all implementing partners in the country.

Provided HIV testing and counseling to over 1 million people in Tanzania.

Through IntraHealth’s comprehensive VMMC services outlets, provided HIV counseling, testing, and test results to 941,763 men.

Work directly within the existing government structures to gather our data in Tanzania.

Partnered with Vodacom and others in Tanzania to carry out the Health Network Programme, which opens invaluable lines of communication between health workers and government officials.

In Tanzania, partnered with local factory owners, boda-boda drivers’ organizations, and the entertainment industry to combat the spread of HIV.

Built working relationships between police officers, teachers, social welfare workers, and frontline health workers to combat gender-based violence in Tanzania.

Helped train 180 frontline health workers from 43 facilities in Tanzania’s Mara region to manage cases related to gender-based violence.

Developed and launched an immunization registry in Tanzania to digitize the stock management, service delivery, and administration for vaccinating 2 million babies per year.

Aided Zanzibar (off the coast of Tanzania) in increasing its health workforce by more than 27% over the course of three years by using data from open-source software tools provided by IntraHealth International and the World Health Organization.

Offered specialized clinical services to survivors of gender-based violence in urban and rural areas in 7 regions of Tanzania.

Installed IntraHealth's iHRIS Manage to help Tanzania's health leaders design and manage a comprehensive human resources strategy. For sustainability, we trained local staff to use the software and local partners to provide technical/management support.

Trained nearly 3,000 health workers in Tanzania to provide HIV-related services, including testing, counseling, and voluntary medical male circumcision.

Established an online community of practice to allow stakeholder participants of nurse and midwife training to interact with one another and support continued learning in Tanzania and Uganda.

Led the Tanzania Human Resource Capacity Project and trained and advocated for a new cadre of community workers, para-social workers (PSW), to engage most vulnerable children (MVC) and connect them with health and social services

Mentored Council Health Management teams in Tanzania to give feedback and follow up on improvement plans, resulting in 99 Tanzanian health facilities offering at least five types of family planning methods

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Tanzania Country Brief

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