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New initiative launched to deliver better, cheaper medicines to Africa
02 April 2012|
The need to ensure that people in Africa have access to essential, high quality, safe and affordable medicines has just received a major boost with the launch of the East African Community (EAC) Medicines Registration Harmonization Project in Arusha, Tanzania, on 30 March 2012.
Country ownership and capacity development central in moving forward the response to AIDS
29 July 2011|
Following the High Level Meeting on AIDS where world leaders agreed on bold targets, UNAIDS convened a workshop in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania to strengthen investments in capacity development of six sub-Saharan African countries.
Dairy cooperative in Tanzania is helping rural women to help themselves
11 April 2011|
In rural Tanzania a women’s dairy cooperative, supported by the International Labour Organization, is giving women, including women living with HIV, economic independence and hope for a better future. One of them, Faith, has seen her life transformed.
Innovative project in Tanzania places young people at the centre of HIV responses
06 April 2011|
During a visit to the Tanzanian Youth Alliance, a national non-profit organization based in Dar Es Salaam, UN Deputy Secretary-General Dr Asha-Rose Migiro and UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé praised the young people for the extraordinary responsibility they have shown in addressing HIV.
Joint mission highlights successes and challenges in Tanzania’s AIDS response
05 April 2011|
In a joint mission to the United Republic of Tanzania, UN Deputy Secretary-General Dr Asha-Rose Migiro and UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé met with high-level government officials.
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UNDP’s Administrator Helen Clark concludes four-country Africa tour
21 May 2010|
The Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Helen Clark recently ended a four-country tour of Africa to highlight progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the run-up to the MDGs Summit in September 2010. Ms Clark travelled to Mali, Burkina Faso, Tanzania, and South Africa.
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Addressing the HIV-related needs of “people on the move”
19 June 2009|
June 20 is World Refugee Day, an opportunity to draw attention to the importance of addressing the HIV-related needs of “people on the move”. Love in the time of AIDS, a video co-produced by UNHCR, highlights the story of Noe Sebisaba, a former Burundian refugee who set up a successful NGO which provides a lifeline to many fellow refugees affected by HIV. The video will be featured during the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board thematic session on forced displacement at the Board’s 24th meeting.
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Supporting young learners living with HIV in Namibia and Tanzania
23 December 2008|
According to a new UNESCO report the learning needs of HIV-positive children in Namibia and Tanzania are currently not being met by their education sectors whose AIDS responses are described as wanting in many respects.
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Carrying the Olympic flame for PLHIV in Tanzania
18 April 2008|
Dhamiri Mustapha, a young Tanzanian woman living with HIV, was one of the 80 dignitaries who carried the Olympic flame during the five-kilometre torch relay in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, on 13 April.
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UNAIDS and partners launch ‘living positively’ book in Tanzania
17 February 2006|
When young Tanzanian Vumilia Omar told her husband she had tested HIV positive, his reaction was one of anger and fury. “He didn’t want to look at me or our children,” she said, telling how her husband then left the family home taking all their possessions with him and leaving Vumilia and her children with nothing and nowhere to go.

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