Every Mother. Every Child. A Healthier Tanzania.

AfyaConnect advances maternal and child health through research, healthcare worker training, public health education, and strategic technology solutions.

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Every Mother. Every Child. A Healthier Tanzania.

AfyaConnect advances maternal and child health through research, healthcare worker training, public health education, and strategic technology solutions.

Partner Our Impact

Who We Are

AfyaConnect Health Organisation is a non-profit NGO advancing maternal and child health in Tanzania by combining community education, healthcare provider training, research, and strategic technology to deliver sustainable solutions for pregnant women and children under five.

Our Vision

A Tanzania where every mother and child survives and thrives, supported by equitable, high-quality healthcare and empowered communities.

Every two minutes, a woman dies from preventable pregnancy-related complications.

Thousands of children die each year before reaching their fifth birthday.

These are not just statistics — they are mothers, daughters, sons, and families.

AfyaConnect exists to change this reality.

Our Focus Areas

Healthcare Worker Training

We strengthen frontline health workers through targeted training programs in neonatal resuscitation, obstetric emergencies, and ultrasound diagnostics to improve survival outcomes.

Public Health Education

We empower communities with life-saving knowledge on safe pregnancy, maternal nutrition, and early childhood development.

Research & Innovation

We generate evidence to inform policy and design effective interventions that address Tanzania’s most urgent maternal and child health challenges.

Centre of Excellence for Maternal and Newborn Health

AfyaConnect, together with Temeke Regional Referral Hospital (TRRH) and the Jumbo Jet Initiative under Soroka Hospital in Israel, has partnered to establish a Centre of Excellence for Maternal Health at Temeke RRH. This collaboration lays the foundation for enhancing maternal and newborn care through focused healthcare worker training and the integration of research-based best practices into everyday clinical care to improve outcomes for mothers and newborns.

Dr. Joseph Assenga, Executive Director of AfyaConnect (left), Dr. Joseph Kimaro, Director of Temeke Regional Referral Hospital(TRRH), and Prof. Offer Erez, Chairman of the Jumbo Jet Initiative, in a photo together following discussions on establishing a Centre of Excellence at TRRH and exploring future research opportunities.

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TRIAGE OUT Project

AfyaConnect Health Organization has partnered with NYAGI, a U.S.-based non-profit organization, to train healthcare professionals in the use of portable ultrasound devices as a triage tool in maternal care. This initiative explores the opportunity to leverage point-of-care ultrasound for early identification of danger signs in pregnancy, addressing critical shortages in human resources for health while promoting timely diagnosis and management of complications. Such task-sharing and skill-expansion approaches are supported globally as effective strategies to optimize existing health workers and expand access to essential services in resource-constrained settings.

By empowering clinicians with practical ultrasound skills, this effort seeks to strengthen the capacity of frontline healthcare teams to integrate evidence-based practices into routine care with the ultimate goal of saving mothers’ lives and reducing preventable maternal mortality.

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Helping Mothers Survive & Helping Babies Breath training Program

AfyaConnect conducts regular capacity-building workshops for midwives in collaboration with the Tanzania Midwives Association (TAMA) and international trainers from the University of Colorado Global Health unit on Helping Mothers Survive and Helping Babies Breathe. These workshops provide hands-on simulation and practical training in critical areas of maternal and newborn care, including management of postpartum hemorrhage, pre-eclampsia/eclampsia, and essential newborn resuscitation.

Simulation-based training like Helping Babies Breathe has been shown to significantly improve midwives’ skills, knowledge retention, and confidence in managing birth asphyxia and other delivery complications, leading to reductions in early neonatal deaths and fresh stillbirths when implemented effectively.

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