Tanzania
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African Health Ministers’ New Commitments Focus on eHealth
Last month, a number of African health ministers recommitted to making more investments in the health sector, building greater health research capacity, accelerating the response to noncommunicable diseases, and employing eHealth technologies to improve the efficiency, quality, and use of health...
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IntraHealth Commemorates World AIDS Day 2011
IntraHealth offices around the world are organizing and participating in World AIDS Day 2011 activities. This year’s theme is Getting to Zero: Zero New HIV Infections, Zero Discrimination, Zero AIDS-Related Deaths. Below is a sample of IntraHealth’s World AIDS Day activities. ...
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IntraHealth to Lead New Project in Tanzania Focused on HIV Counseling and Male Circumcision
The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded the Supporting Tanzania to Expand, Strengthen, and Sustain Quality HIV Counseling project to IntraHealth International. With this new five-year, $12.5 million cooperative agreement, IntraHealth will continue its...
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“Flagship Intervention:” More than 37,900 Tanzanian Males Circumcised for HIV Prevention in Less than a Year
Earlier this month, more than 13,000 men and boys were circumcised in the Shinyanga region of Tanzania in four districts: Bariadi, Maswa, Kahama, and Shinyanga Municipal. Male circumcision services, which are part of an IntraHealth International-led HIV prevention effort, started in late...
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IntraHealth’s Technical Leadership: Gender Equality in the Health Workforce
Last month, the International Journal for Equity in Health published an article written by an IntraHealth International-led research team that highlights the absence of men in the HIV/AIDS caregiving workforce in three districts in Lesotho. The study concluded that HIV/AIDS caregiving is...
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New HIV Prevention Campaign Moving Ahead: More than 2,000 Tanzanian Males Circumcised
As of last week, 2,105 boys and men were circumcised during the first nine days of a three-week male circumcision campaign in Tanzania’s Shinyanga region. Male circumcision services, which are part of an IntraHealth International-led HIV prevention effort, started in late November 2010...
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HIV Prevention: Male Circumcision Program Will Reach 25,000 Tanzanian Men
In the past week, 100 men were circumcised at the Bariadi District Hospital in northern Tanzania’s Shinyanga region, through a new male circumcision program launched on November 23. The program, part of an IntraHealth International-led HIV prevention effort, aims to reach 25,000...
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IntraHealth Innovations in HIV/AIDS
“Just as the HIV epidemic has changed the world, organizations like IntraHealth have adapted and evolved to meet the changing needs of health workers and the people they serve.” -Pape Gaye, president and CEO In Zambia and Ethiopia, counselors go door-to-door,...
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IntraHealth Participates in Conference on Social Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa
Prosper Msuya, program manager for the Tanzania Human Resource Capacity Project , will discuss Filling the Social Welfare Gap in Services: Recruiting a Cadre of Volunteer Parasocial Workers and Potential for Inclusion in Local Government as part of this year’s Social Welfare Workforce...
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The Freedom Torch and HIV Testing
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