Disease Control and Prevention programme is one of the largest programmes under Amref Tanzania. It aims at ensuring quality implementation of community and facility-based interventions for primary and secondary disease control and prevention, and it aims at minimizing the burden of diseases and associated risk factors. The programme works with targeted communities to improve their health through changing the impact of social and economic determinants on health; the provision of information on behavioral and medical health risks, alongside consultation and measures to decrease them at the personal and community levels; nutritional and food supplementation; oral and dental hygiene education; and clinical preventive and curative services. The diagnostic components of the programme ensures that partners have well-equipped laboratories managed by skilled health service providers that have the capacity to provide timely, reliable and accurate information for patient management and disease surveillance.
The DCP portfolio has the following ongoing projects: Amref Tanzania with Global Fund Grant is supporting the Government of Tanzania in implementing HIV and TB community-based interventions in 15 regions of Tanzania Mainland and Zanzibar. Again, through USAID grants, Amref Tanzania implements the Comprehensive Client-Centered Health Program – HIV/AIDS & TB Activity designed to address gaps in HIV/TB/FP service delivery through the Afya kamilifu, Afya Shirikishi and Afya Yangu Projects.
Other projects under DCP include: Expanding efforts and strategies to protect and improve Public Health component 1- Global Health Security Priorities, focusing on improving accurate and timely epidemic-prone diseases and events notification and reporting at national and international levels (GHSA); Empowering Women with Obstetric Fistula through Treatment, Psycho-social Support and Livelihoods Opportunities (Fistula); and lastly, through Africa CDC, supports Amref in implementing two projects under DCP focusing on increasing access to and up taking of COVID-19 vaccines in Tanzania to prevent an increase in severe COVID-19 disease with focus in Tanga and Simiyu.