Tanzania Private Health Sector Assessment

This brief is a summary of the Tanzania private health sector assessment, conducted by the SHOPS project and the IFC-World Bank Health in Africa Initiative in 2012. Sean Callahan prepared this brief, which presents the assessment methods, findings, and key recommendations for engaging the private sector.

Given the relatively organized state of Tanzania’s private health sector and the Tanzanian government’s focus on building strong public-private partnerships, the overall goal of these recommendations is to present actionable steps for the public and private sectors to fully leverage private sector resources and achieve national health goals in HIV/AIDS, reproductive and child health, malaria, and tuberculosis.