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What Will it Take for Tanzania to Achieve ART Targets and Ensure Long-Term Sustainability of the HIV Response?

Overview

In Tanzania, the HIV response is heavily reliant on donor funding, but even with donor support, a significant resource gap still exists. Long-term sustainability requires increased domestic government support and innovative financing mechanisms that will help reduce reliance on donors and close the resource gaps.

In support of USAID-led PEPFAR Sustainable Financing Initiative, the Health Policy Project (HPP) has assisted countries in developing health financing policies and mechanisms that emphasize domestic resource mobilization and prioritize sustainability to adequately meet future healthcare needs. As part of its ongoing work to provide citizens, advocates, and policymakers with relevant and timely evidence for health financing, HPP is pleased to release a suite of products highlighting its analysis of health financing issues in Tanzania.

pediatric ART logo After 2017, Tanzania may need to find another source of funding for 45 percent of its pediatric antiretroviral therapy (ART) commodities, costs currently supported by the Accelerating Children’s HIV/AIDS Treatment Initiative.

pivot brief logo Tanzania must consider new mechanisms for mobilizing domestic resources to identify people living with HIV and reach national and global ART targets.

budget logo Resource needs for Tanzania’s health sector continue to grow, requiring the government to increase its commitment to invest in health.

insurance logo Health insurance, including the idea of a single national health insurer, is gaining momentum, representing a new possibility for Tanzania to finance its HIV response.

taxation logo Tax collection performance is improving and there is an opportunity to establish tax ‘set-asides’ to finance health from the increased fiscal space.

Check out HPP’s other Sustainable Financing Initiative resources:

HPP’s successor, the USAID- and PEPFAR-funded Health Policy Plus (HP+) project, is continuing the work of the Sustainable Financing Initiative. HP+ builds on HPP’s successes while keeping pace with shifts in resource needs and donor and domestic financing trends.