These guidelines provide required principles, guidance, procedures and roles of individuals and teams responsible for data quality management in HIV and AIDS health sector.

These guidelines are intended to be a reference, resource to education and to remind health care workers of the need to consider STIs/RTIs when providing other reproductive health services. It recommends prevention and care practices for patients who have or may be at risk of acquiring an STI/RTI.

These guidelines outline the best practices in occupational and non-occupational management of people exposed to blood and other body fluids by providing PEP and other measures for preventing the transmission of blood-borne infections. This document is intended for all levels of health care providers and other service providers, as well as the general community.

This document provides information on the public health importance of STIs, particularly the prevalence of STIs/RTIs in Tanzania, impact of STIs/RTIs on the socioeconomic relationship between STIs/RTIs and HIV/AIDS, and barriers to controlling the prevalence of STIs/RTIs at the community level.

The strategy is designed to focus on comprehensive health care and social welfare services through instilling a philosophy of client and community centered among health and social welfare workers. It aims to ensure a strong and transparent leadership at all levels by promoting quality health care and social welfare services as part and parcel of daily activities among health staff and social welfare workforce across public and private sector.

The scope of this Guideline covers hospital and stand-alone mortuaries, and funeral home both in public and private sectors. The Guideline also covers funeral services limited to mortuary supplies, Biosafety and biosecurity, human resources, infrastructure and transportation requirements.

The scope of the document covers but is not limited to the following areas: product selection, regulatory approval processes required from importation of the devices going through evaluation/validation up to registration, setting criteria for selecting sites to encourage the right deployment of POCT, training and certification for healthcare service providers, and quality assessment on devices and testing being done at health facilities.

These guidelines are designed to maintain a conscious mind among health workers, on the importance of quality in all HIV and AIDS interventions, as the Tanzania government continues to embark on providing universal access to prevention, care and treatment.

This document has been developed for the use at the primary to tertiary health facilities; and will assist to provide high quality, effective and standardized HVL testing to monitor patients on antiretroviral therapy

The purpose of this document is to provide guidelines on how to implement recognition programs in Tanzania. It provides a framework for recognition that can be adapted and tailored for individual programs or health facilities within the parameters of what is acceptable in the Tanzanian context.

The purpose of this document is to provide all health care providers with basic infection, prevention and control guidelines and safety precautions applicable to their day-to-day activities.

The purpose of these guidelines is to provide surveyors and facilators with guidance on the interpretation and scope of the criteria statements.

This document covers key areas of adult, adolescent, and pediatric HIV and AIDS management; nutrition; mental health; management of opportunistic infections; community-based HIV services and the continuum of care; counselling care; counselling for HIV testing; management of advanced HIV disease as well as art adherence and disclosure. Other areas covered include, standard precautions in care settings and laboratory services, pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis, among others.

These National Guidelines for Malaria Diagnosis and Treatment serve as a reference to diverse health profession cadres in all levels of health care delivery in Tanzania. They provide a framework for development of different field manuals for malaria diagnosis and treatment and related pharmaceutical supplies protocols.

This document provides general information about tuberculosis in children, diagnosis of tuberculosis disease in children, management of tuberculosis disease in children and prevention of tuberculosis in children.

This document provides guidance on the standard requirements, functions and management of mortuary facilities aimed at quality improvement of mortuary services and healthcare in general for people living in Tanzania.

The National Guidelines for VMMC and EIMC have the following objectives: to guide and direct all health care workers involved with VMMC/EIMC at all levels in the health system and to assist health care workers in VMMC and EIMC sites to link clients with other services, such as HIV testing and counselling, HIV care and treatment services, Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) services, Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) services.

The Data Quality guidelines are a valuable monitoring and evaluation tool used to elucidate the national information system strengths and determine country specific data quality issues. Its aim is to encourage and support implementation of the DQA in order to ensure good, robust and reliable quality health data.

These guidelines apply to all health care workplaces and workers in the health system, both in public and private facilities. The document is designed to promote, restore and/or maintain health together with the people, health facilities and resources, arranged together in accordance with established policies, to improve the health of the population they serve.

The first National Home-Based Care Guidelines (HBC) were developed, aiming at providing guidance to managers, health care providers and Home-Based Care providers in the community. This version has different sections. They include; Introduction to homebased care services, Home Based Care services, Palliative care and chronic disease management, Home Based Care and the continuum of care, roles and responsibilities of different actors, special issues, recording and reporting systems, and referrals system.