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Tanzania

Each year, malaria claims the lives of over 48,000 children under five in Tanzania.

With your help, NetsforLife® is working to create a people-centered, integrated model of community development to fight malaria in Tanzania.

Progress Indicators

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History

Tanzania faces difficult economic challenges—its economy depends heavily on agriculture, which accounts for almost half of its gross domestic product and employs 80% of the work force.

However, the climate and topography limit cultivated crops to only 4% of the land. Because of these factors, Tanzania faces chronic food insecurity and poverty.

The average life expectancy is 51.

 

Areas Impacted 

NetsforLife® will be working in three districts in Tanzania: Central Tanganyika, Western Tanganyika and Dar es Salaam.

  • Clergy and church leaders have been trained and have held community-awareness workshops in each district.
  • Since women are the leaders in malaria control in the DR Congo, NetsforLife® has focused on increasing women’s knowledge and leadership capacity. A very successful pilot project in the Lubumbashi district focused on training a core group of women to educate and mobilize community women's groups. This model will be replicated in other districts.
  • A successful baseline study was completed in Katanga, still considered to be in a state of complex emergency due to persistent post-war violence. This study provides much-needed data to guide program implementation so that the greatest impact can be made in this area, which is vulnerable to an outbreak of epidemic malaria.