Health Tanzania partners with Tanzanian individuals and organizations in order to improve the health and education of poor Tanzanians. Our current programs focus on two very poor neighborhoods in Dar es Salaam, a city of five million people, and very poor and isolated coastal villages. With our Tanzanian partners, we are helping to provide out-patient and in-patient health care, community health and prevention programs, and primary education.
August-November 2024 Newsletter
Tanzania is still struggling with the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. Also, inflation is much worse than in the United States. Basic food prices continue to increase. Global warming has led to droughts and flooding. In the normally wet coastal areas where our urban and rural programs are based, decreased rainfall has created more hardship. Since over 14 million people are already trying to
2023 Annual Report
Despite the post-pandemic and financial issues, the Health Tanzania Foundation (Health Tanzania) and its Tanzanian partners made substantial progress in 2023. Health Tanzania continued to focus on (1) developing Buguruni Anglican Health Centre (BAHC) to become a district-level teaching hospital for family medicine residents, medical and nursing students, and community workers; (2) supporting and expanding SEET, the interfaith-local community partnership Tanzanian nonprofit that Health
April-July 2024 Newsletter
Despite local Tanzania and global challenges, Health Tanzania and its partners continue to serve needy Tanzanians. Unfortunately, the National Health Insurance is still reimbursing the faith-based and other nongovernmental health facilities below the standard rates. Despite the decreases and delays in Tanzanian health insurance payments, Buguruni Anglican Health Centre continues to provide quality care for thousands of patients. We are constantly looking for volunteers,
January-March 2024 Newsletter
Buguruni Anglican Health Centre (BAHC) served 59,558 patients in 2023. In 2005, when we first started, it was seeing 6,500 patients a year. BAHC provides comprehensive primary health care and some inpatient care, well women and children’s care, vaginal and C-section deliveries, female surgery, pharmacy and lab services, dental care, and eye care. Located in one of the poorest parts of Tanzania’s largest city,
X-Ray Building
Great news, December 2023: One of our supporters has offered a $5,000 match for the money needed to finish construction of the X-ray building at Buguruni Anglican Health Centre (BAHC). Read more about BAHC in our newsletters on this website. Contribute to the fundraising by clicking “Donate” on the horizontal bar above. Raphael Barua, BAHC health director, in front of the unfinished X-ray building.
August-November 2023 Newsletter
Building on 18 years of Tanzanian partnership, Health Tanzania Foundation and its partners have made some remarkable progress in the last three and half months. This is occurring at the individual, family, and community levels as well as the national partnership levels. At the local level, the team has performed what may be considered miracles. At the regional and national level, our partnerships have
