Dispatches, reflections and on-the-ground updates from our project teams. Follow our work as it unfolds - by project, by community, by season.
A first-of-its-kind training brings women, men and officials to the same table to reshape how Dar's marine resources are managed - with measurable mindset shifts in a single day.
Read the storyEpiC closes 2026 by recommitting to community-led, government-anchored, integrated HIV programming across Lindi.
EpiC outreaches in 2026 carry HIV, TB, STI, GBV screening, FP information and biomedical prevention - in one visit, by default.
A new wave of internal mentorship and coaching takes JICHEKI to facilities that have never had it.
Notes from our EpiC team on advancing HIV epidemic control targets - and the populations still being missed.
Recap from our latest leadership cohort - what worked, what we'd change, and where this cohort goes next.
A year-end review surfaces the metric we don’t usually track - how much of the work the community now owns.
Council gender desk officers become the spine of the EpiC violence prevention and response model.
Key and Vulnerable Population forums move from consultation to genuine co-planning of district HIV services.
The Katavi regional team marks the end of Afya Yangu implementation with a structured handover to the Regional Health Management Team.
A mid-year review benchmarks Lindi against national targets - and names the populations still being missed.
An ASUTA-led campaign across six facilities in Mpanda DC targets the 42-day postpartum window for FP counselling and uptake.
A simple model - peer brings the man, provider supports the kit - keeps testing flowing in fishing camps.
EpiC, RHMT and CHMT planning meetings align targets, calendars and accountability for the year ahead.
Replacing destructive fishing gear is the easy part. Sustaining new income for fishers is where the real work begins.
How collaborative fisheries management areas are reshaping coastal governance - village by village.
A first-of-its-kind training brings women, men and officials to the same table to reshape how marine resources are managed.
Sea-level rise, bleaching and erosion are hitting Dar's seascape fast. Communities are training to adapt before the next tide.
A training programme unpacks the Dar Marine Reserve System - and the governance gaps it must close.
A leadership programme fills a gap flagged by Heshimu Bahari's gender assessment: too few women and youth at the BMU table.
A frank orientation in Dar names the harassment, exclusion and economic violence women face - and what to do about it.
A single Songosongo outreach delivers HIV testing, family planning information, VPR education and biomedical prevention.
A campaign in Dar pushes women and youth from informal labour into formal decision-making in fisheries.
The opening engagement meeting at Iddy Nyundo Hall brings regional, district, BMU and CFMA leaders into one conversation.
A community-wide Women’s Day event in Liwale anchors HIV prevention and gender-responsive services in public life.
Field crews wrap the southern leg of the benthic survey. The dataset now feeds into CFMA planning and prepares the ground for the community-based component.
Outreach to vulnerable populations in Tandika, Temeke and Azimio is changing how addiction care is delivered.
30 sex workers in Azimio start a 12-week financial literacy and savings cycle pegged to ASUTA's WORTH+ curriculum, adapted for short AHADI runway.
Peers gain digital engagement skills to reach vulnerable populations through virtual platforms.
AHADI rolls out assisted partner notification for newly diagnosed PWID - built around consent, safety screening and peer-led offer.
Honest notes from the BES Southern training: what worked, what slowed teams down, and the simple changes the team is making before going south.
Day two of the training moves out of the classroom and into the water at Kunduchi, with four crews trying the survey routine on real waves.
Day one of the BES Southern training walks the field team through the simple, repeatable routine they will use at every sampling point at sea.
ASUTA and TAFIRI open a two-day training in Dar es Salaam to prepare the team that will study the seabed along Tanzania's southern coast.
Three community dialogues in Tandika, Azimio and Mbagala bring KVPs, ward leaders and police gender desk officers into a single room.
SBCC group sessions across Inyonga and Utende wards engage adolescent girls, pregnant women and young men.
ASUTA staff and healthcare providers from Dar and Lindi take part in JICHEKI UCS training and coaching.
A systematic DQA at the ASUTA Mlele office validates accuracy and strengthens the project's data backbone.
A follow-up session with LGAs evaluates progress against the Afya Yangu work plan and refines next steps.
A comprehensive feedback session in Katavi reviews the community scorecard initiative.
ASUTA's outreach team escorts the first 64 AHADI clients into methadone induction at Mbagala MAT clinic.
The team lists what worked and what did not after two days of training and a sea trial - so the real survey starts stronger.
Two boats, two teams, life jackets on - the field crew tries the survey routine at real points off Dar es Salaam.
A simple, step-by-step routine the field team will follow at every sampling point - GPS, depth and an underwater camera.
ASUTA and TAFIRI open a two-day training in Dar es Salaam to prepare the team that will study Tanzania's northern seabed.
BES Northern closes its field phase. Early analysis points to coral patches worth protecting and sand flats already under pressure.
A second DQA round in Lindi closes the loop with facility-level remediation plans.
A workshop with Temeke Municipal Hospital, the police gender desk and ASUTA's case managers locks in a 72-hour GBV referral protocol for KVP clients.
Three months into AHADI, the team reviews how oral HIV self-testing is landing with sex workers in Tandika and Azimio guesthouses.
Three high-volume facilities in Mpanda DC run informed-choice FP days, with ASUTA peers managing demand-side flow and consent.
ASUTA opens the AHADI project with a ward-by-ward mapping of KVPs across Tandika, Temeke and Azimio.
Joint DQAs with health facility staff and district teams sharpen the accuracy of HIV programme reporting.
Award two of Heshimu Bahari widens the benthic survey across Kibiti, Kilwa, Mafia and Lindi - 6,737 grids targeted across four districts.
ASUTA partners with four Mlele secondary schools to launch adolescent SRH clubs led by trained peer educators.
Three days at Temeke Municipal Council bring KVP peer educators through HIV prevention, GBV referral, drug-use harm reduction and the AHADI data flow.
ASUTA receives a 12-month PEPFAR sub-award to deliver HIV prevention, testing and OST linkage to sex workers, people who inject drugs and their partners across Tandika, Temeke and Azimio.
Community Violence Prevention and Response teams are integrated into VMAC, WMAC and CMAC structures across Lindi.
A two-week regional refresher updates CHWs on the revised national RMNCAH job aids and the Afya Yangu reporting flow.
The first of three Heshimu Bahari awards begins with a benthic ecological survey across Kinondoni and Kigamboni - 2,156 grids planned below 50m depth.
ASUTA signs on as the regional implementer for USAID Afya Yangu in Katavi, taking on RMNCAH outreach across Mpanda, Mlele, Tanganyika and Nsimbo.
Beyond condoms and counselling, EpiC brings biomedical HIV prevention to KVPs where they live and work.
During outreach, beneficiaries get full information on family planning methods alongside HIV prevention - choice belongs to them.
EpiC bundles screening so beneficiaries don’t have to choose which part of their health to take care of today.
Healthcare workers and peer educators run sessions that move adolescent boys and young men from avoidance to action.
Social and Behaviour Change Communication moves beyond information delivery to genuine, peer-led behaviour shifts.
Mobile health teams take HIV self-testing, counselling and linkage support to ABYM in hard-to-access fishing communities.
On a small island off the Lindi coast, peer-led awareness sessions are translating directly into HIV testing uptake.
A first joint review with district leadership lays the groundwork for a bolder 2021.
EpiC pivots to small-group SBCC, distanced outreach and HIV self-testing as COVID-19 reshapes the year.
AGYW, ABYM and Other Priority Population peers step forward to lead community-based HIV prevention in Lindi.
ASUTA opens the Meeting Targets & Maintaining Epidemic Control programme in Lindi, building the partnerships that will shape the next five years.
ASUTA wraps up SAUTI with mature WORTH+ groups and a measurable shift in HIV outcomes for vAGYW.
SAUTI rolls out assisted partner notification across all ASUTA delivery sites - consent-led, peer-supported, IPV-screened.
Quarterly engagement meetings between SAUTI peer educators and the Temeke gender desk start to shift the tone of frontline policing for FSW.
SAUTI integrates oral PrEP into the standard prevention package for FSW and high-risk vAGYW clients across Dar.
Weekend mobile testing at two of Dar's busiest entertainment corridors becomes a fixture of SAUTI delivery.
SAUTI launches a small cash-plus pilot - modest monthly transfers paired with the WORTH+ curriculum for the highest-risk vAGYW.
A regional refresher in Kinondoni brings 96 SAUTI peer educators back together for protocol updates and case-based coaching.
SAUTI's facility-side investment in adolescent- and FSW-friendly services gets its first hard look at Sinza.
ASUTA opens 18 WORTH+ groups across Temeke - combining literacy, financial inclusion and HIV prevention into a single weekly cycle for vAGYW.
ASUTA joins the Jhpiego-led SAUTI consortium across Temeke, Kinondoni and Kigamboni.
ASUTA closes its first flagship HIV/AIDS grant with a model that shaped every project that followed.
Eighteen months after seed disbursement, 22 of the first 31 mama-ntilie IGA enterprises are recording sustained net profit.
RFE Round 10's GBV component opens with a formal MoU between ASUTA, the Bagamoyo District Hospital one-stop centre and the gender desk.
Deloitte commissions an independent Data Quality Assessment across the RFE Round 9 indicator set.
DANIDA-led pool awards ASUTA the RFE Round 10 grant - extending the Bagamoyo work and expanding into the Coast Region.
ASUTA partners with the Bagamoyo District AIDS Coordinator to run weekly mobile testing at Mbweni and Mlandizi truck stages.
The first Income Generating Activity cohort opens - sewing machines for women exiting sex work, carpentry tools for recovering drug users, seed capital for mama-ntilie food vendors.
ASUTA's first major condom procurement reaches Bagamoyo guesthouses, bars and trucking stages.
ASUTA opens RFE delivery with a 5-day induction for 62 newly recruited peer health educators drawn from the populations they will serve.
ASUTA's first major HIV/AIDS grant - TZS 299.9M - opens a four-year prevention programme.
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