Imarisha Afya
The Imarisha Afya project aims to empower communities to find, test, treat, and retain children, pregnant and lactating mothers, and young mothers living with HIV into care. An age-appropriate response will be used to help fill the service provision gap for all people reaching the facility and those who don’t due to long distance to the facility, lack of transport cost, or lack of escort, among others.
Community representatives such as community health workers, women and children protection committee members and leaders, religious leaders, people living with HIV groups, champions and mentor mothers, teenager clubs, and caregivers support groups will be capacitated and engaged in the project implementation. Staff at health facilities will be trained to offer child-friendly services and collaborate closely with communities.
The project will be implemented in two regions and six councils in Tanzania which are Dodoma in Dodoma City, Kongwa and Chamwino district councils, and Njombe in Njombe Town, Makete, and Wanging’ombe District councils.
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