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Boresha Afya is a United States Agency for International Development-funded project operating in 6 regions of Tanzania. EGPAF has implemented this project, with partners, since 2016 to improve access to and quality of comprehensive health services tailored to population needs. These health services include maternal and child health, reproductive health, family planning, TB and HIV identification, prevention and treatment services.  This brief highlights outcomes of this project to date.

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Project Brief

Integrating Nurturing Care for Early Childhood Development into Primary Health Care: The Tanzania Experience

Published July 2025

Overview More than 275 million children in low- and middle-income countries are at risk of suboptimal development, including over 66% of children in sub-Saharan Africa. In Tanzania 43% of children are at high risk of not achieving their full potential for growth and development. Risk factors for suboptimal development include poverty, nutritional deficiencies, maternal depression, […]

Countries:

Tanzania

Journal Articles

An integrated, multidisciplinary management team intervention to improve patient‑centeredness, HIV, and maternal‑child outcomes in Lesotho

Published December 2024

Background Reducing perinatal HIV transmission and optimizing maternal and child health (MCH) outcomes in high HIV prevalence settings is an urgent, but complex, priority. Extant interventions over-emphasize individual-level provider and patient behaviors, and neglect critical health systems-level changes. The ‘Integrated Management Team to Improve Maternal-Child Outcomes (IMPROVE)’ study implemented a three-part, patient-centered, health-systems- level intervention […]

Topics:

Maternal and Child Health

Countries:

Lesotho

Journal Articles

Effect of integrating paediatric tuberculosis services into child healthcare services on case detection in Africa

Published December 2024

Introduction Paediatric tuberculosis (TB) underdiagnosis is a critical concern. The INPUT stepped-wedge cluster-randomised trial assessed the impact of integrating child TB services into child healthcare on TB case detection among children under age 5 years. Methods We compared the standard of care, providing TB care in specific TB clinics (control phase), with the Catalysing Paediatric […]

Topics:

Tuberculosis (TB)

Countries:

Cameroon,

Kenya