Short-term health education related services - Tanzania
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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.
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 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
Short-term health education related services
Through the National Health Insurance Fund, the following programme services on communicable and non-communicable diseases and general awareness on health insurance are available in Tanzania:
- Free Health Check up services during national event such as Saba Saba shows, Nane nane shows,
- Outreach programmes: For both members and non-members of NHIF who cannot afford to access health services from referral hospitals. Through dispensaries NHIF special team of doctors with advanced medical facilities carry out services such as hear and head surgery.
- Sensitization events: NHIF regional offices and Head quarters prepare events for various people at differ times and levels such as in villages, schools, churches. Content of the events are: awareness on communicable and non communicable diseases and health insurance