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On the SDC main website, you find an overview on SDC's activities in Tanzania.

Health in terms of "physical wellbeing" is a key issue for the Swiss Development Cooperation in Tanzania. Programms are implemented at the micro-, meso-, and macro level. With it's substantial contrubution to the Sector Wide Approach (SWAP) in the health sector, SDC is one of the key players regarding the health sector budget support. HIV/AIDS, Malaria and TB programmes as well as health research have been pinpointed as strategic priorities where SDC can build on it's comparative advantages looking at other bilateral or multilateral donor contributions.

Linked to the SWAP, SDC supports selected decentralised government entities (mainly councils), helping them to improve access, quantity and quality of the delivery of preventive and curative health services. In that field, SDC builds on ist substantial experiences in health system support.

At the micro level a new "community health initiative programme" (CBHI) will be operationalised soon, focussing firmly on the priorities and constraints of poor people in rural and urban areas.

SDC works in the health sector narrowly with the Government of Tansania, bilateral and multilateral development partners, with international NGOs, research institutions and regional and local organisations.
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Factsheet Regional Psychosocial Support Initiative (06.2009)
This fact sheet presents the Regional Psychosocial Support Initiative (REPSSI), a regional non-profit organisation designed to mitigate the psychosocial impact of HIV and AIDS, poverty, and conflict among children and youth from 13 countries in Eastern and Southern Africa.
The fact sheet was produced for SDC with the support of the Swiss Tropical Institute
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Factsheet SolidarMed Antiretroviral Treatment Project (06.2009)
This fact sheet presents SMART (SolidarMed Antiretroviral Treatment) programme. The goal of this program is to strengthen the local health systems of nine rural districts in Tanzania, Mozambique, Lesotho and Zimbabwe, as well as to integrate voluntary counselling and testing, antiretroviral treatment, activities to prevent HIV transmission from the mother to the child, and home based care into routine health service provision. Solidarmed builds on established partnerships and cooperation in these districts with local hospitals and health administrations.
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Sector-wide approach in Tanzania. The health sector example (01.2001)
End of assignment report by O. Burki, SDC (pdf)
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Workshop on the Sector Wide Approach for SDC (10.2000)
SDC Eastern & South Africa Division, Maputo, Mozambique, 23-25 October 2000 (pdf)
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Poverty Reduction: What does the Sector-Wide Approach have to offer? (10.2001)
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Indicators for Monitoring Health Sector Reform and the Sector-Wide Approach (11.2000)
Presentation at Sector-Wide Approach in Health Conference “Moving from Policy to Practice”, Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, 27-28 November 2000 (pdf, december 2000)
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Update on events and developments during 2002 in (health) sector-wide approach (10.2002)
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Policies for Human Resources for Health: Why are they important? (09.2003)
This paper reviews challenges faced by national authorities in low- and middle-income countries in the area of Human Resources for Health (HRH) and policy issues that must be addressed in order to improve the management and performance of the health sector workforce. A key issue paper provided for SDC by the Swiss Tropical Institute. (pdf)
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Scaling-up Anti-retroviral Treatment and Human Resources for Health: What are the challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa (06.2004)
This document assesses possible human resources for health (HRH) related constraints for scaling-up ART, identifies possible strategies for overcoming health workforce shortages in view of delivering ARV treatment, and, in a case study of Tanzania, reviews the current and future availability of human resources for scaling-up anti-retroviral treatment. A key issue paper provided for SDC by the Swiss Tropical Institute. (pdf)
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Malaria situation: Lunchtime seminar (12.2001)
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Malaria Update 2002 (10.2002)
This document aims to update the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and its collaborators with recent developments in the area of malaria prevention and control. Four topics are reviewed:  The economic impact of malaria,  Anti-Malarial drug policies,  Intermittent Preventive Treatment, and  Insecticide treated mosquito nets. An update provided for SDC by the Swiss Tropical Institute. (pdf)
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Netcell final report phase 1 (10.2005)
The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) has supported the Netcell ITN Upscaling Project with the aim to “support national upscaling of ITNs in Tanzania through the strengthening of the ITN cell within the National Malaria Control Programme”. The Netcell Project Phase 1 has been successful to a large extent in meeting its main objectives and the agreed performance indicators (as indicated in the table below), although retreatment of nets to make them an ITN remains a challenge. The partnership under the NATNETS Programme is working well.
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The multisectoral approach - A focus on Africa (03.2001)
The aim of this key issue paper provided for SDC by the Swiss Tropical Institute is to give an overview over the issues related to mainstreaming AIDS into development projects using a multisectoral approach. The focus is on non-health sectors and -projects as for those it is less obvious than for the health sector how to procede. (pdf)
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HIV/AIDS update 2002 (05.2002)
This HIV/AIDS update provided for SDC by the Swiss Tropical Institute includes sections on the following topics:  which strategies and interventions to chose in a given context;  the role of religious opinion leaders;  children affected by HIV/AIDS;  latest developments in access to antiretroviral drug therapy in developing countries (pdf)
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Preventive interventions to control and combat the spread of HIV in Africa: A review on what works and what does not (07.2001)
This document reviews the evidence of what works and what does not work in preventing HIV transmission and spread in Africa. In Africa most importantly it appears that there must be a high political and moral commitment in order to sustain positively the impact of preventive measure against HIV/AIDS. A key issue paper provided for SDC by the Swiss Tropical Institute. (pdf)
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Access to drugs (09.2004)
Many of the issues surrounding the accessibility of medicines in low income countries can only be addressed with concerted national and international action. In this paper we consider the issues of accessibility and availability of pharmaceuticals in international health, and describe the initiatives that have been taken by SDC to address them in Tanzania and Mozambique.
A key issue paper provided for SDC by the Swiss Tropical Institute. (pdf)
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Focus on HIV/AIDS II/2005 (06.2005)
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