Target TB working in partnership with the Tanzanian Network of Organizations of People Living with HIV/AIDS (TANOPHA)

Country/regional profile
Tanzania has one of the highest TB burdens in the world; TB has increased six-fold between 1983 and 2003 with 60% of the increase in active TB cases being linked with the HIV epidemic. Approximately 60% of patients with TB are co-infected with HIV.

Target TB is working with TANOPHA in the Central and Southern Highland Zones of Tanzania. These two zones are severely affected by HIV, with some parts of the Southern Highlands zone experiencing the highest HIV prevalence rates in the whole of Tanzania. Moreover, approximately 75% of these populations are rural communities, with limited access to health services and health information.

Our work with TANOPHA
TANOPHA currently support over 100 member organisations across Tanzania with the aim of strengthening HIV positive peoples’ participation in the national response to HIV/AIDS. Target TB is working in partnership with TANOPHA to support the integration of TB control into the HIV focused activities of their member organisations across Tanzania’s Central and Southern Highlands Zones.

Project Aims
The project aims to improve the management of TB and HIV co-infection by training HIV positive peoples groups to raise awareness of the two epidemics and encourage people to access local services for testing, treatment and care.

Project Activities

• Representatives from HIV positive peoples groups will be trained on TB prevention and treatment and the relationship between TB and HIV. These representatives will then cascade this knowledge to other members of their groups.
• The positive peoples groups will conduct community outreach activities such as public meetings, discussions, drama and role play, to increase awareness, reduce stigma and encourage people to access health services relating to TB and HIV.
• TANOPHA will produce brochures, leaflets and posters to increase awareness of HIV and TB and encourage TB testing, to be distributed by the positive peoples groups in their local communities.