Maternal and Reproductive Health

Considering the vulnerability of pregnant mothers and children, the government developed a more specific National One Plan II Strategic Plan (also called One Plan II) to Improve Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) services in Tanzania for a period from 2016 to 2020. In 2016 the Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children (MOHCDGEC) developed the One Plan II to guide the efforts of the government and the stakeholders working to improve reproductive maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (MOHCDGEC 2016).

The development of HSSP IV and One Plan II strongly suggests the continued government commitment to the global and regional initiatives to improve RMNCAH care 2015-2030.

This strategic document has been in use since June 2016 and its overall goal is to improve reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health in Tanzania in line with the National Development Vision 2025. In providing this strategic direction, identifying priority actions, and measuring progress; the strategy is guided by the overall mission to promote, facilitate and support, in an integrated manner, the provision of comprehensive, high impact and cost-effective RMNCAH and nutrition services, along the continuum of care to men, women, newborn, children and adolescents. The development of HSSP IV and One Plan II strongly suggests the continued government commitment to the global and regional initiatives to improve RMNCAH care 2015-2030.

Prime Health Initiative (PHIT) Tanzania, works to support the government of Tanzania to attain the specified goals and focuses on strategic approaches as follows

• Strengthening Maternal Health and Newborn Health services, like Family Planning (FP); Antenatal Care (ANC); Post Natal and Newborn care; and Early Infants Diagnosis (EID) and support care to HIV Exposed Infants (HEIs)
• Strengthening adolescent reproductive friendly health services like school adolescent health programs, peer-to-peer adolescent support services, and comprehensive adolescent health services package
• Scaling up and integrating other critical health services targeting mothers, infants, children, and adolescent like post-Gender Based Violence (GBV), Violence Against Children (VAC), Point of Care Viral Load (POC VL) monitoring, index testing to male sexual partners, biological children and siblings, and male involvement in reproductive health interventions.
• Introducing and maintaining RMNCAH communications, advocacy, and partnership platforms that strategize on working better to improve the uptake and scaling of health and social services for these targeted populations