Healthcare in Tanzania

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AIDS awareness sign in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Health care in Tanzania is available depending on one's income and accessibility. People in urban areas have better access to private and public medical facilities.

Disease

Malaria Clinic in Tanzania in partnership with SMS for Life program which organizes malaria vaccine delivery

Tanzania faces a "mature", generalized HIV epidemic. Among the 1.4 million people living with HIV/AIDS, 70.5 percent are 25 to 49 years old, and 15 percent are 15-24 years. In young women ages 15 to 24, there is an HIV prevalence rate of 3.8 percent, which is significantly higher than the 2.8 percent prevalence rate among young men in the same age group. More than half of available hospital beds are occupied by HIV-infected persons.[1]

Malaria exists throughout the year and is predominantly due to P. falciparum.[2]

Maternal and Child Healthcare

In June 2011, the United Nations Population Fund released a report on The State of the World's Midwifery. It contained new data on the midwifery workforce and policies relating to newborn and maternal mortality for 58 countries. The 2010 maternal mortality rate per 100,000 births for United Republic of Tanzania is 790. This is compared with 449 in 2008 and 610.2 in 1990. The UN Child Mortality Report 2011, reports a decrease in under-five mortality from 155 per 1,000 live births in 1990 to 76 per 1,000 live births in 2010, and in neonatal mortality from 40 per 1,000 live births to 26 per 1,000 live births.[3] The aim of the report The State of the World's Midwifery is to highlight ways in which the Millennium Development Goals can be achieved, particularly Goal 4 – Reduce child mortality and Goal 5 – improve maternal health. In United Republic of Tanzania there are only two midwives per 1,000 live births; and the lifetime risk of death during delivery for women is one in 23. [4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "WHO country cooperation strategy 2002-2005". 
  2. ↑ "Tanzania, United Republic of". 
  3. ↑ UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, http://www.unicef.org/media/files/Child_Mortality_Report_2011_Final.pdf, 22 September 2011
  4. ↑ "The State Of The World's Midwifery". United Nations Population Fund. Accessed August 2011. 

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