BY JEAN EYASE:AT least five Government ministries have been directed to work closely to ensure that family planning services reach more people in Tanzania by 2020.
Speaking in Dar es Salaam October 9, 2013, Vice President, Dr. Gharib Bilal, said only 27 per cent of women who need the said services use modern family planning services.
Dr. Bilal was speaking during the National Family Planning Conference which also witnessed him re-launching the Green Star programme with its slogan: ‘follow the green star for development’.
“The Government needs to see the contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) increase from the current 4.2 million women to five million by 2015, and 60 per cent of them by 2020 as the last year’s London Summit directed,” he said.
He named the ministries that were needed to deal with family planning issue as the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training and Ministry of Finance.
Others are the Prime Minister’s Office, Regional Administration and Local and the Ministry of Community Development, Gender and Children.
He cited the dependence on foreign aids to serve family panning in the country as one of the major challenges facing his Government, hence, the said ministries would have to find the way to accumulate fund from local means.
The conference, which is attended by more than 500 Tanzanians and foreign health experts targeted to find local solutions to local problems in family planning.
Speaking at the same event, the Minister for Health and Social Welfare, Dr. Hussein Mwinyi, said the correct usage of family planning services would improve mothers and children health.
“People should understand that family planning leads to family development as well as the nation at large. Healthy mothers will have a good time to participate in development activities,” he said.
Previously, the Tanzania Commission for AIDS (TACAIDS) Director, Dr. Fatma Mrisho, challenged the media to assist the desperate girls who damp their babies instead of harassing them.
She said those new mother sometimes decide to damp their babies after being ignored by society.
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| Tanzania Vice President, Dr. Mohammed Gharib Bilal, pressing a computer button to reinvigorates the ‘Green Star’ Campaign during the opening of the Tanzania’s National Family Planning Conference on 9th October 2013. |
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Tanzania National Family Planning Conference delegations’ cross-section
picture affectionately listening to the facilitators at Mlimani City Conference
in Dar es Salaam. The three-day meeting took place from October 9-11, 2013.
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