Vision

DPMF envisions becoming a major catalyst for ensuring that all people of Tanzania enjoy optimal health and contribute to the well-being of their families and communities.

Areas of Operations

• (1) Gender Based Violence: Work to change attitudes, or questioning gender roles and stereotypes that make gender-based violence acceptable in society.;
• (2) Providing accessible information about what gender-based violence is, about its different forms, possible remedies and existing support measures;
• (3) Every worker has the right to work and is entitled to remuneration according to work that along with being respected as a human being
• (4) Awareness raising campaigns. Such campaigns will use traditional means, such as posters, leaflets and websites, but might also utilize social media and flash mobs, for example;
• (5) Training professionals to be able to identify, address and respond to gender-based violence. This will include providing training for teachers, youth workers, social workers, trainers, the police, the justice system, health care providers, etc.
• (6) Empowerment programs which will strengthen the self-esteem and autonomy of those sections of the population which are more likely to be at risk of violence
• (7) Tuberculosis & HIV: Strategic communication and community mobilization. We will engage and mobilize communities to promote and sustain healthy behaviors like HIV testing and treatment adherence, and to help combat stigma, gender inequality, and other norms that contribute to HIV and TB. Integrating HIV with other health issues. We will also work to ensure that insights and lessons learned in confronting one disease are used to improve care and treatment for others. Use of Innovative health technologies and approaches. New screening tools, diagnostics, drugs, and approaches can all help health care workers reduce the impact of HIV/AIDS, TB, and related diseases in low-resource settings. Strengthen our capacity for service delivery and research.
• (8) Malaria DPMF will focused on delivering, monitoring, and evaluating interventions at the grassroots level, including: bed net distribution, case detection and treatment, operational research, and behavior change communications, such as teaching people how to properly hang a net. Wherever possible, DPMF will integrate malaria prevention activities with efforts to control or eliminate diseases such as lymphatic filariasis, river blindness, and trachoma, enabling village-based health care delivery systems to address multiple diseases at once.