Tanzania
Contacts
Marianna Balampama
country director
HR team
Kelly Herman
senior program specialist
kherman@pactworld.org
Five strategies for building resilience among HIV-affected children and adolescents
June 29, 2020
A Devex article by Pact's Gloria Sangiwa.
Research article: Understanding the association between caregiver sex and HIV infection among orphans and vulnerable children in Tanzania
April 6, 2020
Journal article by members of the Kizazi Kipya team in Tanzania, published in BMC Health Services Research.
Meet your miner: Asha
October 24, 2019
Co-designed with miners, Moyo Gems is an ethical gemstone program being piloted in Tanzania’s gemstone-rich Umba Valley. With the Tanzania Women Miners Association (TAWOMA) and Moyo partners ANZA...
Meet your miner: Fatuma
October 23, 2019
Co-designed with miners, Moyo Gems is an ethical gemstone program being piloted in Tanzania’s gemstone-rich Umba Valley. With the Tanzania Women Miners Association (TAWOMA) and Moyo partners ANZA...
Meet your miner: Prisca
October 23, 2019
Co-designed with miners, Moyo Gems is an ethical gemstone program being piloted in Tanzania’s gemstone-rich Umba Valley. With the Tanzania Women Miners Association (TAWOMA) and Moyo partners ANZA...
With holistic case management, a family in Tanzania breaks the cycle of poverty, HIV risk
August 23, 2019
Eva Mwaka Twimanye hasn’t had an easy childhood. She is one of five children, and both of her parents are HIV-positive. The income they make as small-scale gold miners in Bukombe District, in...
Research article: Prevalence and correlates of depression and anxiety symptoms among out-of-school adolescent girls and young women in Tanzania
August 19, 2019
Journal article by members of Pact's Tanzania team, published in Plos One.
With women miners, Pact & partners build an ethical gemstone supply chain from the ground up
June 5, 2019
When the Gemological Institute of America approached Pact’s Cristina Villegas in 2016 about piloting a rough gemstone guide for miners, Villegas immediately knew where to start. As director of Pact’s...
Stepping up for young women
April 24, 2019
In Tanzania, young women are particularly vulnerable to HIV. Working with partners Jhpiego, EngenderHealth and the National Institute for Medical Research Mwanza, Pact is helping to build a sustained...
From herbal medicine to antiretrovial therapy: An HIV-positive mother and baby get the care they need
February 8, 2019
By Lena Renju and Suleiman Masudi
Fazila, a 31-year-old mother from Masasi, Tanzania, was pregnant with her fourth child when she learned she was HIV-positive. The revelation was almost too much for...