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Young Manager Leads Regional Lab Team to WHO 3-Star Rating

PEPFAR-supported Lab Mentorship Initiative Yields Remarkable Improvements in Quality of Service at Temeke Hospital Laboratory in Tanzania Having successfully led Temeke Hospital Laboratory from a zero to 3-Star rating, Lab Manager Grace Maliva isn’t resting until the lab achieves full accreditation, hopefully by the end of 2015. After that, she has her eyes set on ...

By U.S. Embassy Dar es Salaam | 28 November, 2014 | Topics: PEPFAR, Success Stories

‘It’s About the People’ Film Premieres at the Zanzibar International Film Festival

Stone Town, Zanzibar — A documentary on voluntary male circumcision (VMMC) in Tanzania premiered at the 2014 Zanzibar International Film Festival on Sunday. The short film showcased how Tanzania is successfully scaling up VMMC services, with the potential to avert more than 3 million future HIV infections in the country. The film was funded by ...

By U.S. Embassy Dar es Salaam | 25 June, 2014 | Topics: Press Releases

World AIDS Day Commemoration

It is my privilege, as the donor countries’ representative, to join you as we commemorate World AIDS Day here in Dar es Salaam. We stand here together today to mourn the world’s losses as a result of HIV and to celebrate its many brave heroes, who have fought in ways big and small against this ...

By U.S. Embassy Dar es Salaam | 1 December, 2013 | Topics: Op-Eds

PEPFAR’s Ten Years of Progress; Millions of Lives Saved

Ten years ago in 2003 the world was in the midst of an AIDS pandemic and Africa was the epicenter. Nearly 30 million people had the AIDS virus, including 3 million children and over 8,000 people were dying every day. In Africa, AIDS was wiping out an entire generation. The American People saw the need ...

By U.S. Embassy Dar es Salaam | 19 July, 2013 | Topics: Former U.S. Government Leaders, PEPFAR | Tags: Barack Obama, John Kerry

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