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Quick information guide

 Hotline numbers for quick security help

  • Police free hotline number: 111 or 112
  • Tanzania Women Lawyers Association (TAWLA) hotline: 0800 110017: 0800 751010
  • Women Legal Aid center (WLAC): Toll Free: 0800 780100

Business security tips

  • Travel between  12.00am-6.00pm; avoid night transports
  • Use public transport whenever possible
  • Use tax from reliable stations such as airport or get numbers from hotel 
  • Don’t accept drinks when in public transport
  • Use lawyers to sign big contracts
  • Do not accept cash payments in big business transactions

Advised vaccines:

  • Hepatitis A
  • Hepatitis B
  • Typhoid
  • Yellow Fever
  • Rabies

Recommended vaccines:

  • MMR (Missiles, Mumps and Rubella): given once to anyone born after 1957
  • Tetanus, Diphtheria and Pertussis (TDAP): Given once to adults
  • Chicken Pox: Given once to those unvaccinated that did not have chicken pox
  • Influenza: Vaccine component change annually
  • Polio: Routine vaccination for most travel itineraries normally given once
  • Meningitis: Recommended for minors and those with additional risk factors
  • Pneumonia: Two vaccines given separately

 Free of charge health services for women:

  • Empowerment programmes
  • Health services to pregnant women and children under five years
  • Provision of reproductive adolescence and youth health services.

Contact the National Health Insurance Fund  for help

Hotline: 0800110063

Phone: +255 22 2133969/+255 22 2133969

E-mail: info@nhif.or.tz

Security for women in Tanzania

Women in business are likely to face Gender Based Violence in the course of conducting business. To ensure security for women  a number of services and information are available to support them. It is important to fight against gender based violence because its impacts ranges from immediate to long-term multiple physical, sexual and mental consequences, including death. It negatively affects women’s general well being and prevents them from fully participating in socio-economic development of their countries.

Gender Based Violence (GBV) is a violence directed at an individual based on their biological sex. GBV includes physical, sexual and psychological abuse, threats, intimidation, and economic deprivation or liberty deprivation. 

Health information in Tanzania

According to the Tanzanian National Strategic Plan Accelerate Reduction of Maternal, Child Births and New Born Deaths, to date the government of the Republic of Tanzania celebrates a number of health achievements related to maternal health and new born.

The strategic plan shows that women aged 15-49 that are using modern contraceptives have increased from 27% in 2010 to 32% in 2016. Women receiving Ant Retroviral (ARVs) to prevent mother to child transmission increased from 73 % in year 2013 to 86% in 2015 and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) has decreased from 15% in 2010 to 10% in 2016.

The Tanzanian Government commits to continue working towards the betterment of peoples’ physical, mental and social welfare by treating and preventing diseases, disabilities and deaths.

 HIV and AIDS prevention and management?

  • Voluntary HIV  Testing and Counselling
  • Use of antiretroviral treatment (ART) services available in all regions of Tanzania for already infected people
  • Use prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) services from hospitals
  • Use of condoms during sex with unreliable partners 
  • Avoid using of shared needles
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HIV and AIDS prevalence

 

According to the recent Global Information and Education on HIV and AIDS report:

  • 4.7% or 1.4 million people were living with HIV in Tanzania in 2016,
  • 55,000 people were newly infected with HIV, and 33,000 people died from an AIDS-related illness
  • HIV prevalence for women is 5.8% compared to 3.6 for men.
  • More than 25,000 women aged 15-24 became infected with HIV, compared to around 20,000 men of the same age.
  • Women tend to become infected earlier, because they have older partners, get married earlier and they also experience great difficulty in negotiating safer sex because of gender inequality.
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