Empowerment of 90,000 Community Health Workers for HIV Prevention

TLDR

• Tanzania Commission for AIDS (TACAIDS) is implementing strategies to effectively reach all groups with HIV/AIDS interventions, particularly young people.
• Dr. Adam Mrisho, the Executive Director of TACAIDS, announced the empowerment of about 90,000 community health workers through training on preventive services and self-testing.
• The meeting discussing these efforts took place on August 20, 2026, in Dodoma, where the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and HIV/AIDS reviewed the status of HIV/AIDS among young people.
• The government is enhancing efforts to combat HIV/AIDS through multisectoral collaboration and mobilizing domestic resources to bring services closer to communities.
• TACAIDS is also working to improve 32 knowledge centres across the country that provide HIV prevention education and services, targeting young people and long-distance truck drivers.