Integrated Family Planning and Tuberculosis health services achieves household’s wellbeing.
Raising sick children frequently can be emotionally and financially draining for any parent. When these children are conceived unplanned, economic hardships can compound. Medical bills and missed workdays can quickly add up, leaving parents struggling to make ends meet. Sauli Norbert Mwanisawa, a husband to Marry Kalungwana and a father of three children who lives […]
Dedication of Community Health worker is the Key towards addressing myth and misconceptions on the use of family planning contraceptive methods.
Negative myths and misconceptions about family planning are barriers to modern contraceptive use. Katavi region is among the regions in Tanzania with the low uptake of family planning, from 18% in 20215 to 22% in 2023 as indicated in the current Tanzania Demographic Health Survey. Slow progress of family planning uptake is contributed by different factors […]
A Community Health Worker: Cause of Smile in my Life
The USAID-funded Afya Shirikishi project in Tanzania is using community –based health solutions to address social behaviors in accessing health services for Tuberculosis (TB) test and to help patients cope with long and difficult TB treatment. The project is working in nine regions (Dar es Salaam, Katavi, Rukwa, Kigoma, Geita, Mwanza, Pwani and Songwe Regions in […]
Macrina Mhalafu: Drumming the HIV message through Football
Macrina Mhalafu is a 23-year-old girl and peer educator of adolescent girls and young women from Sagamaganga village in Signal ward, Ifakara Town Council, Morogoro region. She has been changing lives through her innovative approach to education, where she uses football to drive the HIV message to her clients. Despite facing challenges and dropping out […]
Rising Above: Veronica’s Journey of Resilience and Empowerment.
Veronica Kalani, a 23-year-old Adolescent Girl and Young Woman (AGYW) from Barabarani Street, Mpamantwa Ward, Bahi DC, has become a beacon of hope in HIV prevention. Despite facing numerous challenges, Veronica has risen above them and is now leading her community towards a brighter future. Veronica’s journey has been far from easy. Coming from a […]
Asha: From a desperate young girl to an aspiring farmer
Asha Salum, a girl with an infectious smile, represents a classic case of the empowerment that training girls from vulnerable environments can achieve. The Timiza Malengo training has given her a sense of direction that many out-of-school girls can only dream of. For this 24-year-old, who hails from Menia, Kondoa in Dodoma region, the first […]
Fatuma Issa: A Traditional healer linking TB patients with Community Health Workers (CHWs) for TB diagnosis.
Wearing a red scarf, wrapped with a piece of cloth against a background of a shoulder-to-toe-long, black-spotted yellow gown, confidently smiling Fatuma is about five feet tall. She is a mother of five and resident of Wisikwantisi Street in Kondoa Town Council working as a Traditional healer. Fatuma Issa never knew that at one […]
Pili Daud: From Fistula Survivor to Business Owner
Pili Daud from Nyehunge is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit. She has overcome great adversity in her life and has emerged stronger and more determined than ever before. Pili is a fistula survivor, a condition that affects many women in Tanzania and other parts of the world. Fistula is a devastating […]
Fistula Survivor Turned Successful Entrepreneur
Perpetua Yusuph is a courageous and inspiring woman from Nyambemba village in Buchosa. She is a fistula survivor who faced immense challenges in her life, but she always had a strong spirit and an unwavering determination to overcome them. When Perpetua first developed fistula, she was devastated. She had lost control of her bladder and […]
Overcoming obstetric fistula with support from Amref Health Africa Tanzania
Masumbuko James Kazungu was a proud father of two beautiful daughters. He lives in a small village in Tanzania with his wife Scholastica, who was his partner in everything he did, he always supported his wife, Scholastica, through thick and thin. Masumbuko was a hard-working man, and his wife was the backbone of their family, […]