Aga Khan satellite clinics are accredited with National Health Insurance Funds, to ensure that local communiti...

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At the Aga Khan Hospital, Dar es Salaam, a resident doctor makes rounds in the maternity ward.

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Patient blood and urine samples are analysed in the clinical laboratory of the Aga Khan Hospital, Dar es Salaa...

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Exterior entrance of the Aga Khan Hospital, Dar es Salaam - Phase II, Tanzania.

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Tanzania | Health

US$ 83 million

AKDN has invested US$ 83 million to expand its East Africa Integrated Health System into Tanzania

One of the key results of the US$ 11.6 million project – Improving Access to Reproductive, Maternal and Newborn Health in Mwanza, Tanzania (IMPACT) – has been a 25 percent increase in births attended by a skilled health professional.

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Community Health

AKF is improving the availability of quality maternal and newborn health services by equipping health facilities with emergency obstetric and newborn care services and providing capacity-strengthening support to medical and management staff.


It is working to increase demand for health services, particularly for women of reproductive age. Examples include radio programmes that encourage behaviour change and savings groups that provide access to finance for healthcare services.


In response to COVID-19, AKF is strengthening the capacity of medical and management staff. It is procuring medical and personal protective equipment such as surgical masks, patient beds with mattresses, handheld thermal scanners, pulse oximeters and infusion pumps.


The Aga Khan Health Care Centre in Mwanza, Tanzania, provides a range of services including outpatient care and free maternal and child health services in collaboration with the Government.

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Service Delivery

AKHS built its first Tanzanian dispensary in 1929, providing medical services in Dar es Salaam. In 1939, a 10-bed maternity home was opened, and in 1948, a nursing home equipped with surgical facilities and 32 inpatient beds was built. The main hospital, now a 74-bed facility that is accredited by Joint Commission International, was opened in 1964.


Five primary medical centres, located in Dodoma, Iringa, Mbeya, Morogoro and Mwanza, were also created. Eleven outreach health centres have opened in Mbezi Beach, Town Centre, Tandika, Mbagala, Masaki, Ukonga, Kigamboni and Mikocheni, in Dar es Salaam, and Buzuruga and Kahama in the lake zone region and in Arusha. These institutions are providing quality health care, including general and specialist medical services and state-of-the-art diagnostic services. They will form a network of 35 outreach health centres across Tanzania.


We work closely with the public health sector to improve access, utilisation and quality of healthcare services. In partnership with the Government of Tanzania, select maternal and child health services are provided free of cost.


Together with AKU, the Aga Khan Hospital in Dar es Salaam offers postgraduate medical education in family medicine, internal medicine and surgery. The 170-bed teaching and tertiary care referral hospital has been recently expanded to provide world-class specialised care.


The Aga Khan Health Care Centre in Mwanza, Tanzania, provides a range of services including outpatient care and free maternal and child health services in collaboration with the Government.

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Higher Education

The Aga Khan University School of Nursing and Midwifery in Dar es Salaam strengthens health systems in Tanzania by upgrading nursing skills, improving the quality of health care and developing new nursing courses. The programme is tailored to ensure health services are responsive to population needs. Its innovative curriculum enables nurses to obtain professional qualifications while working. To date, 750 nurses have graduated from AKU in Tanzania.


In addition, the University trains urgently needed specialist physicians in family medicine, surgery and internal medicine through its four-year, full-time Postgraduate Medical Education programme at the Aga Khan Hospital in Dar es Salaam.