In Tanzania, Pathfinder International is working to reduce cases of HIV and AIDS and advocating for increased family planning—with a special focus on establishing integrated health care delivery systems at the community level. Pathfinder is committed to the people of Tanzania and their right to sexual and reproductive health without fear or boundary. Since 1984, we have strengthened local partners, communities, and health systems to remove obstacles that stand in the way of providing high-quality, comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care to those who need it most. Since 1984, Pathfinder has had a strong presence in Tanzania. Supporting Tanzania’s national response to reducing unmet need for contraception, Pathfinder builds upon our experience pioneering community-based distribution of contraceptives by implementing several high-impact contraception programs that serve a population of over 1 million women. Our work is tailored to meet the unique contraceptive needs of adolescents and women across their various life stages. This includes youth-friendly contraceptive services, contraceptive counseling as part of antenatal care for pregnant women, postpartum contraception, contraception as a key part of comprehensive postabortion care, and contraception integrated into HIV services.
Organisation's Contributions
| Process Indicator | Contribution | Description |
|---|---|---|
| FP programs targeting young men | Worked to bring full contraceptive choices to undeserved communities | Worked to bring full contraceptive choices to undeserved communities including male in the communities where they implement their projects. As part of ensuring men are well engaged and involved in family planning, nearly 1,150+ husband and partners who have high influence over young women’s health decisions gained information during home visits in Shinyanga. |
| Out-reach services targeting youth in hard-to-reach areas, including densely-populated urban area | Supports health facilities to offer a wide range of quality contraceptives. | Supports health facilities to offer a wide range of quality contraceptives through the provision of long and short contraceptive methods as well as emergency contraceptive methods. Pathfinder works to make family planning methods readily available when needed by the users. Their interventions include expanding family planning choices for first time parents in Shinyanga regions. Over 1,170 young women have been referred to health facilities for permanent family planning methods. |
| CSOs and community groups supported to participate in social accountability efforts | Supported the engagement of communities in systematic processes to hold health facilities accountable for provision of high quality and rights based contraceptive services | Through the beyond bias project supported the engagement of communities in systematic processes to hold health facilities accountable for provision of high quality and rights based contraceptive services. With such a process thus ensuring there’s availability of family planning services at the facility level to the undermined population at the time of need. |
| CSOs and community groups involved in social accountability efforts | Supported the engagement of communities in systematic processes | Through the beyond bias project supported the engagement of communities in systematic processes to hold health facilities accountable for provision of high quality and rights based contraceptive services. With such a process thus ensuring there’s availability of family planning services at the facility level to the undermined population at the time of need. |