Country action
Tanzania
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Every Woman Every Newborn in Tanzania
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National mortality targets
Maternal mortality ratio
100 per 100,000 live births by 2025
Stillbirth rate
12 per 1,000 live births by 2025
Neonatal mortality rate
15 per 1,000 live births by 2025
Progress to meet the national maternal, newborn mortality and stillbirth reduction targets
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Progress to meet Every Woman Every Newborn Everywhere coverage targets
MNH Acceleration Plan highlights
In 2024, the priorities in Tanzania’s MNH Acceleration Plan include:
- Recruit, train and deploy a qualified health workforce.
- Invest in improving quality of care for maternal and newborn health.
- Strengthen the generation, collection and use of quality data to inform decision-making.
©UNICEF/Quarmyne. Redait Tsegay, beneficiary, going to a health center, Neqsege
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Quality of care in Tanzania
Tanzania is one of the 11 countries that set-up the Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (Quality of Care Network). (link to quality of care network internal page). Tanzania’s successes in improving quality of care for maternal, newborn and child health are essential to help reduce maternal and newborn mortality and stillbirths. These include:
- A Quality Improvement Strategy Framework in Health Care is implemented in Mainland Tanzania and a Health Quality Strategic Plan is rolled out in Zanzibar.
- The World Health Organization’s standards to improve quality of maternal and newborn care, small and sick newborns care, and children and young adolescents care in health facilities are adopted.
- The first novel Maternity Waiting Home operational guideline, job aids, and standard operating procedures were developed to reduce delay in reaching health facilities.
- Capacity building and discussions with community health leaders, community health volunteers and traditional birth attendants strengthened community engagement for maternal, newborn and child health.
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