Tanzania

Health and HIV

We provide a holistic package of HIV prevention, ART adherence support, life skills, entrepreneurial training, and youth savings groups for out of school adolescent girls and teen mothers to keep them HIV free or virally suppressed, and on track to pursue their life goals. We layer an evidence-based parenting skills curriculum for teen mothers that promotes interactive stimulation techniques critical in helping HIV exposed infants meet early childhood developmental milestones.

We support the Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children (MoHCDGEC) to roll out a National Integrated Case Management System (NICMS) for vulnerable children and families affected by HIV. The NICMS provides a framework at the district level for the coordination of all services providers across the sectors of HIV/AIDS, health, protection, and social welfare. We are training community case workers that work directly with families and children affected by HIV and community and clinical service providers in the delivery of vital HIV and social protection services.

We prevent new HIV infections in adolescent girls and retain them in secondary school using a holistic model that intervenes at the individual, school, and family levels. At the individual level, we build the protective assets of adolescent girls with a focus on HIV education, adolescent sexual reproductive health, negotiation skills, violence prevention, gender equality, and goal setting. We enlist adolescent boys as partners and agents of change. At the school level, we implement an innovative secondary school dropout early warning system and equip teachers and school committees with knowledge, skills, and tools to prevent and respond to school-related gender-based violence. At the family level, we support community savings groups and layer a positive parenting curriculum to help parents and caregivers to effectively and pro-actively communicate with adolescents about adolescent sexual reproductive health, HIV prevention, relationships, and gender-based violence.

Livelihoods

We help marginalized households and adolescents move along a continuum from socio-economic vulnerability to resilience through our community savings group model, known as LIMCA (Livelihood Improvement for Mothers, Caregivers, and Adolescents). LIMCA builds financial literacy skills, strengthens social networks, promotes the practice of savings and goal setting, provides access to micro-loans, and helps members develop positive coping mechanisms in the face of economic shocks. By layering other services onto the LIMCA platform, such as business skills, positive parenting, gender-based violence prevention, and gender equality training, LIMCA serves as a platform for integrated service delivery.

Education

We improve retention and attendance for adolescent girls in secondary school using a holistic model that intervenes at the individual, school, and family levels. At the individual level, we build the protective assets of adolescent girls with a focus on negotiation skills, violence prevention, gender equality, goal setting, HIV prevention, and adolescent sexual reproductive health. We enlist adolescent boys as partners and agents of change. At the school level, we implement an innovative secondary school dropout early warning system and equip teachers and school committees with knowledge, skills, and tools to prevent and respond to school-related gender-based violence. At the family level, we deliver a positive parenting curriculum to help parents and caregivers to effectively and proactively communicate with adolescents about adolescent sexual reproductive health, HIV prevention, relationships, and gender-based violence.

Social Protection

We strengthen the social and protective assets of adolescent girls and young women through a social protection package that includes life skills, sexual reproductive health, gender-based violence prevention and response, HIV prevention, ART adherence, financial literacy, and savings groups. Our platforms reduce risk to violence and HIV, build social networks, promote health-seeking behaviors, and empower them to navigate harmful gender norms. We simultaneously engage adolescent boys and men as partners in violence prevention and social norms change. We support community savings groups and layer a positive parenting curriculum to help parents and caregivers to effectively and pro-actively communicate with adolescents about adolescent sexual reproductive health, HIV prevention, relationships, and gender-based violence.

Systems Strengthening

We provide expert technical assistance to the Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children (MoHCDGEC) to design and roll out a National Integrated Case Management System that provides vital social protection services and referrals for vulnerable children and families affected by HIV. Through the systems strengthening approach, we support the MoHCDGEC to take greater ownership of initiatives for children and families made vulnerable by HIV and ensure the provision of integrated comprehensive social protection and clinical HIV services. The National Case Management System connects and coordinates all service providers working with children across the different sectors of HIV/AIDS and health, protection, and social welfare.

Adolescent Girls and Youth

In Tanzania, HIV prevalence rates for adolescent girls and young women age 15-24 are almost three times higher than young men in the same age cohort. Girls account for 71% of new HIV infections among adolescents in Saharan Africa.

We strengthen the social and protective assets of adolescent girls and young women through a comprehensive package that includes life skills, sexual reproductive health, gender-based violence prevention and response, HIV prevention, ART adherence, financial literacy, and savings groups. Our comprehensive platforms reduce their risk to violence and HIV, build their social networks, empower them to navigate harmful gender norms, and promote health-seeking behaviors. We simultaneously engage adolescent boys and men as partners in violence prevention and social norms change.

We provide a comprehensive package of HIV prevention, ART adherence support, life skills, entrepreneurial training, and youth savings groups for out of school adolescent girls and teen mothers to keep them HIV free or virally suppressed, and on track to pursue their life goals. We layer an evidence-based parenting skills curriculum to teen mothers that emphasizes interactive stimulation techniques that are critical in helping HIV exposed infants meet early childhood developmental milestones.

We prevent new HIV infections in adolescent girls and retain them in secondary school using a holistic model that intervenes at the individual, school, and family levels.