Senga Pemba

TL;DR: The Tanzania Connect Project is a randomized cluster trial located in three rural districts with a population of roughly 360,000 and aims to test whether introducing a community health worker into a general program of health systems strengthening and referral improvement will reduce child mortality, improve access to services, expand utilization, and alter reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health seeking behavior.

TL;DR: Late ANC initiation is a significant maternal and child health consequence of mistimed and unwanted pregnancies in Tanzania and women should be empowered to delay or avoid pregnancies whenever they need to do so.

TL;DR: Findings strongly indicate that remotely located health centres in resource limited settings hold a great potential to increase accessibility to CEmONC services and to improve maternal and perinatal health.

TL;DR: Tanzanian AMOs, clinical officers, and nurse-midwives can be trained as a team, in a three-month course, to provide effective CEmOC and anaesthesia in remote health centres.

TL;DR: The development and process of the work is described and six overarching principles that ought to be considered when adopting an inclusive approach to GHE curriculum development are outlined.