Access to HIV/AIDs Treatment in Tanzania

Summary

Trans Tanz provides a free bus service for people living with HIV/AIDS to access treatment. We work with UKUN to transport people to health centres where they can get ARV prescriptions and CD4 tests. progress report read updates from the field

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Rachel

(Anon.)

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

The majority of people living in Tanzania live outside the 50km radius known as having access to healthcare. 6% of people living in Tanzania have HIV/AIDS. Trans Tanz works in Bagamoyo - an area of Tanzania with one of the highest prevalence rates - to provide transportation for people living with HIV/AIDS to testing, CD4 machines and significantly the anti-retroviral drugs they need to stay alive.

Activities

A regular free bus service services 15 villages in rural Tanzania, increasing ARV uptake from 0-100% in many cases. As a result of the project, lives are prolonged and the impact of the disease is mitigated in individuals, families and communities.

Funding Information

This project has been retired and is no longer accepting donations.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

Resources

Charity Site (http://www.transtanz.org)

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Increase life expectancy of people living with HIV/AIDS so they are able to work and raise their children. This limits the wider socio-economic impact of HIV/AIDS on Tanzania's labour productivity and reduces the number of orphans.

Project Message

Many congratulations on ‘inventing’ this project. It is helping us a lot because before we couldn’t get any medicine but now we can! Thank you very much.
- Anon, Patient - note in the patient feedback box

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Duncan Skelton,
Project Manager
Trans Tanz
35 St Johns Grove
London, N19 5RP
United Kingdom
07779 111715
Email:

Project Sponsor

Trans Tanz

Organisation

Trans Tanz
Flat 40, Kinver House 42 Elthorne Rd
London, London N19 4AS
United Kingdom
(+44)(0)7779 111715
http://www.transtanz.org

Learn more about Trans Tanz and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Tanzania, United Republic of and can also be found under Health.

For more information about Tanzania, United Republic of, read the Human Development Report on Tanzania, United Republic of or the Wikipedia entry for Tanzania, United Republic of.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on September 20, 2011.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 18, 2008.

Latest Update from the Field

UPDATE OF TRANS TANZ PROJET

By ROSEMARY SOKILE - PROJECT MANAGER, November 01, 2010 11:32 AM

Trans Tanz (TT) is a charitable organization registered with the UK Charities Commission with registration no 1117510/ Tanzanian registered society no14756. Trans Tanz has been carrying out a self-funded project in Bagamoyo district, Pwani region, since December 2007. By running a free bus service for HIV patients in villages up to 90kms from the nearest Care and Treatment Centres (CTCs), we have helped demonstrate that one of the keys to increasing the numbers of HIV patients enrolled on ART is removing transport and other physical and economic barriers to accessing treatment. The project has been successful in registering more than 200 patients from villages around the CTCs in Chalinze, Miono, and Mbwewe.

Trans Tanz has been doing the tremenders job in the community. The awareness of its function has increased due to fore seen fruits of its function.

Enclosed here are some success story from the project beneficiaries

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Attachments:

BLOG_UPDATE_FOR_OCT.doc (DOC)

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