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CDC led The Maternal and Reproductive Health in Tanzania project’s monitoring and evaluation activities. CDC’s reports and articles provide detailed information on how  the project was organized and carried out, and the resulting changes in maternal and child health indicators. 

Activities, Topics, Indicators, and Reports

Pregnancy Outcomes
Topics: Pregnancy care, delivery, and mortality indicators
  • Maternal mortality
  • Stillbirths
  • Neonatal deaths
  • Skilled birth attendance
  • Emergency obstetric care
  • Obstetric complications
  • Maternal deaths averted
2014 – 2019
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Reproductive Health Survey
Topics: Reproductive health indicators
  • Fertility
  • Contraceptive knowledge and use
  • Unmet need for contraception
  • Antenatal care attendance
  • Knowledge of pregnancy danger signs
  • Delivery and postnatal care
  • Infant mortality
  • Early sexual activity
2014 – 2018
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Health Facility Assessment
Topics: Health facility infrastructure, staffing, equipment, supplies, overall capacity, geographic area served
  • Electricity
  • Communication
  • Transportation
  • Staffing
  • Training
  • Protocols
  • Emergency obstetric care functionality
  • Essential drugs and equipment
  • Contraceptive supplies
  • Blood transfusion capacity
  • Birth companionship
2014 – 2019
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Client and Provider Experience Survey
Topic: Health care experience
  • Providing and receiving high quality reproductive care
  • Companionship during delivery
  • Respectful care
  • Provider job satisfaction and training
  • Provider technical knowledge
2016 – 2018
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Overview of the Maternal and Reproductive Health in Tanzania Project

A Comprehensive Approach to Improving Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care in Kigoma, Tanzania (2022)

Improving Maternal and Reproductive Health in Kigoma, Tanzania: A 13-Year Initiative (2022)

Context Matters: Strategies to Improve Maternal and Newborn Health Services in Sub-Saharan Africa (2022)

Client and provider experience journal articles

Client and provider factors associated with integration of family planning services among maternal and reproductive health clients in Kigoma Region, Tanzania: a cross-sectional study, April–July 2016 (2018)

Client and provider factors associated with companionship during labor and birth in Kigoma Region, Tanzania (2019)

Patient and provider determinants for receipt of three dimensions of respectful maternity care in Kigoma Region, Tanzania, April-July, 2016 (2018)

Birth companionship in a government health system: a pilot study in Kigoma, Tanzania (2021)

Transportation to emergency obstetric care journal articles

Geographic Access Modeling of Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care in Kigoma Region, Tanzania: Transportation Schemes and Programmatic Implications (2017)

Referral transit time between sending and first-line receiving health facilities: a geographical analysis in Tanzania (2019)

Antenatal and delivery care journal articles

Factors associated with local herb use during pregnancy and labor among women in Kigoma region, Tanzania, 2014–2016 (2020)

Beyond adequate: Factors associated with quality antenatal care in Western Tanzania (2020)

Family planning and contraceptive use journal articles

Factors Associated with Contraceptive Use in Sub-Saharan Africa | Journal of Women’s Health (liebertpub.com)

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