Youth from 9 countries including Tanzania who have participated in a dialogue on how to stop AIDS and keep the promise that took place through videoconference have said that they are tired being used as volunteers and hence they want their voiced being aired out in policy making. By Nyasigo Kornel

Undoubtedly healthcare institutions in Tanzania must strive together to further the interactive sharing of healthcare knowledge and information through newer and faster ways harnessing the ‘transformational’ potential of ICT can significantly enable the health sectors to transform their unstructured processes into automated routine transactions.

Tanzania Global Development Centre (TGDLC) has organized constructive dialogue on the role of Indigenous Knowledge (IK) in managing HIV/AIDS. Our Traditional Healers take health as a state of social wholeness. Disease does not simply involve the malfunction of one or a collection of bodily organs. Rather it is a rupture in life's harmony.

Clinical evidences given by the respondents who uses Muhanse M4® shows that Muhanse M4® has been effective to People Living With HIV/AIDS and hence has caused them to rely entirely on it.

The ratio of Medical Doctors to population in Tanzania is 1:20,000, while traditional healers are estimated at 1:350. Yet no effective care or vaccine against HIV infection to 2.2 million Tanzanians who are HIV positive, only 400,000 are planned to access ARV.

Community members expect health centers to provide care that is of professional compassionate to the HIV/AIDS, but in contrary health care settings identifies as predominant locations where stigma occurs.

The purpose of the conference was to enhance the capacity of Members of Parliament to advocate for the prioritization of issues related to HIV/AIDS and children in national policies and legislation.

Two international companies, DHL and Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD), will join forces to speed up accessibility of life prolonging drugs to AIDS patients in sub-Saharan Africa, including the Great Lakes Region.