Global Initiatives - Tanzania

Located below the horn of Africa and bordered by the Indian Ocean, Tanzania is an environmentally rich developing country in East Africa. Boasting Africa’s largest mountain, Mt Kilimanjaro, and the Serengeti National park, tourism is an important revenue earner for Tanzania. Despite the consistent influx of tourists each year, Tanzania remains one of the world’s poorest countries and a large portion of the population lives below the poverty line.Communicable diseases such as HIV and malaria burden the population, and the country continues to suffer from their deficient health care system. In 2012, 1.5 million people in Tanzania were living with HIV. High mortality rates from infectious diseases, especially among children, are seen in populations living in rural and poor urban areas. Many populations living in these rural and tribal regions of the country lack sufficient access to medical facilities, general health care infrastructure, and basic hygiene practices. With the country’s limited resources allocated to the national health sector, these communities continue to suffer from the deficient health care distribution