Browsing: Tanzania Maternal health

Tanzania Mainland and Zanzibar to receive U.S.$ 550 million in a concessional loan to improve its Maternal and Child Health programme. Photo/World Bank
  • U.S.$304.93 million will go to supportive programmes in sustainable rural water and sanitation
  • 300 million US dollars is the International Development Association (IDA) concessional loan
  • Another US$ 25 million is also part of the grant money, but this time from the Global Financing Facility for Women Children, and Adolescents Multi-Donor Trust Fund.

Tanzania is to receive U.S.$ 550 million in a concessional loan to improve its Maternal and Child Health programme.

The World Bank loan comes along with a side package of U.S.$ 29.93 million in grant money, the government has reported.

Finance Minister, Hon. Mwigulu Nchemba issued a statement to media specifying the funds’ planned disbursement as follows: U.S.$304.93 million will go to supportive programmes in sustainable rural water and sanitation and U.S.$275 million will go directly to maternal and child health programme.

Of this money, 300 million US dollars is the International Development Association (IDA) concessional loan and

Tanzania focus on maternal health bears fruits as mortality drops

A region in Tanzania that focused on improving obstetric care services potentially averted an estimated 2,100 maternal deaths between 2011–2018, according to data released by the CDC Foundation. The data include the results of treatment provided by all emergency obstetric care facilities in the Kigoma Region, where maternal deaths were among the highest in Tanzania, a nation which has the sixth-highest number of maternal deaths in the world.

The Maternal and Reproductive Health in Tanzania Project began in 2006 as a collaborative effort with the Tanzanian government to prevent maternal deaths and increase access to emergency obstetric care and other reproductive health services by upgrading health facilities and training health workers. The CDC Foundation has supported the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in monitoring and evaluating the program since 2010.

The new data released by the CDC Foundation provide new information related to maternal mortality and …