Our own Kate Campana recently visited Tanzania to scope out the scene for our future awareness program, similar to the “Surround Sound Senegal” program we helped launch in Dakar in June. The Tanzania awareness program would offer support to the government of Tanzania for the Universal Coverage Campaign. In 2008 and 2009, MNM distributed 267,000 mosquito nets in Tanzania as part of a 7.2 million mosquito net distribution.

While there, Kate met with Alex Mwita, manager of the National Malaria Control Program, PSI Malaria Control, Johns Hopkins, health partners and country leaders to discuss current initiatives, future net distributions and necessary actions to support activities moving forward.

The highlight of her trip was visiting with the Tanzania House of Talent (THT) in Dar es Salaam, an NGO that shelters disadvantaged youth and helps them improve their livelihoods through artistic talent. THT is the only Tanzania center that invests in the lives of young people through performing arts, regardless of their social, educational or financial background. Through integrating performing arts into the Tanzanian awareness program, we hope to inspire social change and encourage positive and proactive behavior change towards malaria in the people that live there.

Details on next year’s Tanzania awareness program will be available soon. Continue to check on Buzzwords for program updates.

Tags: Kate Campana, PNLP, PSI, Tanzania, Universal Coverage Campaign

Tags: Kate Campana, PNLP, PSI, Tanzania, Universal Coverage Campaign
Categories:Africa, On-The-Ground