Tanzania

All figures from the World Health Organization Global Health Observatory, 2007, unless otherwise stated.

Population: 40,454,000
Life expectancy at birth: 52
Healthy life expectancy at birth: 45
Maternal mortality, per 100,000 live births: 950 (2005)
Child mortality aged 0-5, per 100,000 births: 10,400 (Unicef, 2008)
Per capita government expenditure on health in international dollars: 42 (2006)

Population - 40,454,000
Life expectancy at birth - 52
Healthy life expectancy at birth - 45
Maternal mortality, per 100,000 live births - 950 (2005)
Child mortality aged 0-5, per 100,000 births - 10,400 (Unicef, 2008)
Per capita government expenditure on health in international dollars - 42 (2006)

Water and sanitation

Proportion of population of using improved drinking-water sources urban/rural/total (%):
81/46/55 (2006)
Proportion of population of using improved sanitation facilities urban/rural/total (%): 31/34/
33 (2006)

Proportion of population of using improved drinking-water sources urban/rural/total (%) - 81/46/55 (2006)
Proportion of population of using improved sanitation facilities urban/rural/total (%) - 31/34/33 (2006)

HIV and AIDS

Prevalence of HIV among adults aged 15 and over, per 100,000: 5,771
Antiretroviral therapy coverage among HIV-infected pregnant women for preventing mother to child transmission: 32%
Antiretroviral therapy coverage among people with advanced HIV infection: 31%

Prevalence of HIV among adults aged 15 and over, per 100,000 - 5,771
Antiretroviral therapy coverage among HIV-infected pregnant women for preventing mother to child transmission - 32%
Antiretroviral therapy coverage among people with advanced HIV infection - 31%

Other communicable diseases

Cholera, reported cases: 1609
Plague, reported cases: 59

Cholera, reported cases - 1609
Plague, reported cases - 59
Prevalence of TB per 100,000 - 337
TB detection rate under directly observed therapy, short course (DOTS) - 51%
TB treatment success under directly observed therapy, short course (DOTS) - 85% (2006)

contacts...

Professional environmental and public health organisations
Tanzanian Association of Health Inspectors (CHAMATA)
C.Mung’aho
Secretary
PO Box 5337
Dar es Salaam
Tanzania
Phone: +255 051 114039
Fax: +255 051 23676

Government contacts
Tanzania Food and Nutrition Centre (TFNC)
Managing Director
22 Ocean Road
PO Box 922
Tel: +255-22-2118137/9
Fax: +255-22-2116713
Dar es Salaam
e-mail: tfnc@muchs.ac.tz
http://www.tanzania.go.tz/government/health.htm

Academic institutions offering environmental and public health training
Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Institute of Allied Health Sciences
Diploma in environmental health sciences
http://www.muhas.ac.tz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=38&Itemid=56

Ardhi University, Institute of Human Settlements Studies
Short courses in water supply and low cost sanitation and solid waste management.
http://www.aru.ac.tz/page.php?id=136

research and innovation...

The Tanzania Essential Health Interventions Project (TEHIP) suggests it is possible to achieve dramatic gains in maternal, newborn and child health at little additional cost
http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-3170-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

Tanzanian farmers are growing Artemisia annua to improve the domestic supply of antimalarial medicines, according to The African Regional Health Report: The Health of the People (chapter 1, page 11).                                                                   http://www.who.int/bulletin/africanhealth/en/index.html

? The Tanzania Essential Health Interventions Project (TEHIP) suggests it is possible
to achieve dramatic gains in maternal, newborn and child health at little additional
cost
www.idrc.ca/en/ev-3170-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
? Tanzanian farmers are growing Artemisia annua to improve the domestic supply of
antimalarial medicines, according to The African Regional Health Report: The Health
of the People (chapter 1, page 11).
www.who.int/bulletin/africanhealth/en/index.html