Tanzania

Tanzania, Partnerships 2020

Improving child survival through an Integrated approach to tackle childhood malnutrition in rural Tanzania

This partnership will establish a working diagnostic and referral system for childhood malnutrition in the Kilombero district. The aim is to link the government health system in the district with the referral hospital and increase the trained health workforce treating malnutrition at facility and community levels.

Tanzania, Partnerships 2016

Care for HIV-infected mothers and their infants in a rural district of Tanzania

The objectives of this partnership were to improve HIV testing coverage in the ANC settings by reaching over 6,000 pregnant women and increasing the HIV testing rate above 90% in the whole district. A futher objective was to improve retention in care of HIV‐infected mothers by reducing loss to follow‐up to below 20%. It also aimed at the establishment of an Early Infant Diagnosis of HIV circuit at district level to offer reliable and timely early infant diagnosis for 200‐230 HIV exposed infants yearly. This should lead to a platform to generate reliable information concerning maternal and infant HIV care in rural Tanzania, to inform policy makers in Tanzania, and to support national policies.

Tanzania, Partnerships 2016

A partnership to tackle women and mothers with pregnancy related diabetes in Tanzania

This partnership between Solidarmed and Lugala Lutheran Hospital aimed at training nurses on pathophysiology of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus, prevention and treatment with dietary measures, pharmacological treatment with insulin as well as introducing a routine screening for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in pregnant women at the Lugala Lutheran Hospital. It further had the introduction of a standard long-term algorithm for diagnosing and treatment including counselling-based on the above results as an objective.