Healthcare: Bringing million dollar smile
Tanzania has a long-standing history of participatory strategic planning in the health and social welfare sector. Tanzania Development Vision 2025 document identifies health as one of the priority sectors contributing to a higherquality livelihood for all Tanzanians.
In the financial year of 2017-18, the Tanzanian Ministry of Health has planned to spend TZS 785.8 billion as part of its development budget, which will help the ministry implement its health improvement initiatives. In 2001, the Government of Tanzania committed to the Abuja Declaration, pledging to increase government funding for health to at least 15 percent of its total budget, but has yet to reach this target. Over the past 10 years, the Tanzanian government conceived the Health Sector Strategic Plan( HSSP) to guide the annual Comprehensive Council Health Plans( CCHP) in the health and social welfare sector.
In September 2015, the United Nations and the Government of Tanzania jointly committed to 17 Sustainable Development Goals( SDGs) over the next 15 years. Among the 13 targets under the SDG for health, one pertains to the achievement of universal health coverage— including financial risk protection; access to high-quality essential healthcare services; access to safe, effective, high-quality and affordable essential medicines. The Government is in
Tanzanian Ministry of Health has planned to spend TZS 785.8 billion as part of its development budget, which will help the ministry implement its health improvement initiatives.
the process of finalising a bill that will make membership in the improved Community Health Fund( iCHF) mandatory for all Tanzanians.
Finance: The powerhouse
The financial sector is dominated by banking institutions which account for about 75 percent of the total assets of the financial system. The Banking and Financial Institutions Act of Tanzania was passed in 1991 in order to modernise the legal
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