United Republic of Tanzania

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Adolescents

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Adolescent health

Adolescents living with HIV

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2024

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Care and Support for ALHIV in School Settings: Perspectives of Teachers and Administrators in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania

Strengthening capacity in translating evidence to action: Data mentoring and the journey to triple elimination of HIV, syphilis, and hepatitis B

IsabellaP — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 14:35:03 +0000

Strengthening capacity in translating evidence to action: Data mentoring and the journey to triple elimination of HIV, syphilis, and hepatitis B IsabellaP Fri, 06/07/2024 - 17:35

The report outlines the progress and achievements in the triple elimination of vertical transmission of HIV, syphilis, and hepatitis B in Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) over the last two decades. The data mentorship programme aims to strengthen national health management information systems, improve data quality, and build the analytical skills of government staff working towards elimination. It employs a unique partnership model with the private sector, academia, and government officials, focusing on capacity building through virtual and in-person mentoring, online learning platforms, and workshops. The programme has shown early successes, with mentees from various countries implementing operational plans to improve data quality and analysis in their respective countries.

Empowered mentees are taking up leadership roles that directly support national programmes and 'Path to Elimination' validation processes. The geographical expansion of the programme and the continuous exposure of mentees to technical learning opportunities will further enhance each country’s preparedness towards the 'Path to Elimination' and validation. The design, approach and delivery of this programme can be used as a blueprint for building national and regional capacity, skills building, and mentorship. While this particular data mentorship programme focuses on vertical transmission and the Path to Elimination, the principles of data quality, data sources, collection and reporting, data visualisations, and data use remain consistent across healthcare programmes and can be applied more broadly to build data use capacity in maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and sexual and reproductive health.

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Namibia

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Strengthening capacity in translating evidence to action: Data mentoring and the journey to triple elimination

Technical Brief on Paediatric HIV Case-Finding: Beyond Infant Testing

IsabellaP — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 15:01:07 +0000

Technical Brief on Paediatric HIV Case-Finding: Beyond Infant Testing IsabellaP Thu, 04/11/2024 - 18:01

Despite global progress in HIV treatment for children, the gap between adult and paediatric treatment coverage continues to widen. This gap is driven primarily by barriers to HIV diagnosis in children, but in the past decade those barriers have shifted.

Scaling-up HIV case-finding efforts for children presents several challenges, including limited access to testing services, lack of provider preparedness to offer testing to children, stigma and discrimination, policy barriers related to age of consent, and inadequate health systems. The aim of this technical brief is to offer countries a guide to address these challenges and enhance HIV case-finding for children to improve testing coverage for children at risk for HIV. This technical brief focuses primarily on how programmes can identify those children who may have missed out on EID testing, who were never tested after breastfeeding or whose mothers were not enrolled in care.

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Paediatric and Adolescent Treatment

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West and Central Africa

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Technical Brief on Paediatric HIV Case-Finding: Beyond Infant Testing

Ujana Salama: Cash Plus Round 3 Research

admin — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 01:33:16 +0000

Ujana Salama: Cash Plus Round 3 Research admin Wed, 11/02/2022 - 03:33

Ujana Salama leverages impacts of the PSSN with complementary interventions, including training and linkages to services.The aim of these interventions is to facilitate safe, healthy and productive transitions to adulthood while strengthening local government capacity and services related to adolescent health, livelihoods and social protection.

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Cash-Plus: Round 3 Report

admin — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 01:26:38 +0000

Cash-Plus: Round 3 Report admin Wed, 11/02/2022 - 03:26

Provides findings from the impact evaluation of Ujana Salama. This impact evaluation is a 26-month, mixed-methods study aimed at providing evidence on the potential for an additional plus component targeted to youth layered on top of a government cash transfer programme to improve youths’ future economic opportunities and facilitate safe transitions to adulthood.

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Ujana Salama:Cash Plus Midline Findings

admin — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 01:19:21 +0000

Ujana Salama:Cash Plus Midline Findings admin Wed, 11/02/2022 - 03:19

Tanzania’s pilot Cash Plus Model on Youth Well-being and Safe, Healthy Transitions, or “Ujana Salama” (‘Safe Youth’ in Swahili), aims to improve the lives of young people in rural areas.These adolescents are extremely poor and face multiple health and economic risks.

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Cash Plus Midline Report

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Cash Plus Midline Report admin Tue, 11/01/2022 - 22:46

A model for safe transition to a healthy and productive adulthood.

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Cash Plus Project Brief

Case Plus - Baseline Report

admin — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 20:42:18 +0000

Case Plus - Baseline Report admin Tue, 11/01/2022 - 22:42

A Model for Safe Transitions to a Healthy and Productive Adulthood

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Case Plus Project Brief

admin — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 20:33:30 +0000

Case Plus Project Brief admin Tue, 11/01/2022 - 22:33

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Cash Plus: An Adolescent Livelihood, Health and Well-being Intervention as part of Tanzania’s Productive Social Safety Net Programme

gcastellar — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 14:37:45 +0000

Cash Plus: An Adolescent Livelihood, Health and Well-being Intervention as part of Tanzania’s Productive Social Safety Net Programme gcastellar Wed, 04/13/2022 - 17:37

For adolescent boys and girls, transitioning to adulthood means facing significant social, health and economic risks. These include a lack of economic opportunities, early marriage and pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections including HIV, violence, abuse and exploitation. To support a safe, healthy and productive passage to adulthood, the Tanzania Social Action Fund (TASAF), the Tanzania Commission for AIDS (TACAIDS), UNICEF and other key stakeholders have developed, implemented and evaluated an intervention where social protection and economic empowerment interventions are combined with sexual and reproductive health education and services as part of the Tanzanian government’s cash transfer programme, the Productive Social Safety Net (PSSN).

The resources available include a project brief with a summary of the programme components and impact evaluation, as well as research briefs and reports from the baseline, midline and third wave of data collection.

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