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Sikika is a Non-Governmental Organization registered in Tanzania in the year 2000. Sikika's overall vision is quality health services for all Tanzanians.

Sikika empowers citizens to smoothly interact with health service providers through enhancing active community engagement, transparency and accountability within the district health systems. Sikika also works with Parliament and key central Ministries to influence the national health plans and budgets. Sikika currently operates in Dodoma, Dar es Salaam and Kibaha district based in the Coastal region of Tanzania.

Answers to Questions such as .........

How is the government planning to fight HIV/AIDS? What does the health sector budget look like? What do citizens think about health services in Tanzania? Do they know their rights?

......Can be found by looking through our website and publications. In addition, our Newsletters will keep you updated on our activities, progress and challenges.

PROGRAM AREAS

  • Health Governance & Finance
  • Human Resource for Health
  • Medicine & Supplies
  • HIV and AIDS

Health Governance and Finance

  • Budget transparency
  • Effectiveness of the budget
  • Oversight

Human Resource for Health

  • Ethics
  • Deployment and retention
  • Complaint mechanism systems

Medicine and Supplies

  • Transparency
  • Availability
  • Distribution

HIV and AIDS

  • Transparency
  • Availability and distribution
  • Planning

  • After the 31st October 2010 general election, various government departments and parastatal organizations spent Tsh 175, 639,750 on 217 congratulatory messages to winners, in the form of advertisements published in various forms of media from the 8th of November 2010 to the 8th of December 2010. The money could buy 828 delivery beds or 1254 delivery kits. (Source: Political Advertising report -2011)

  • Gauze was unavailable at 48% of 71 districts, and this had persisted for a periodranging from three to six months. Only 8% of the districts had sufficient quantities. Similarly, 37% of the facilities did not have gauze, and only 10% had sufficient quantities (Source: Medicines and Medical Supplies Availability report -2011)

  • Eight out of 15 cadres show heath workers reporting rate below 80%. From the 328 graduates who were deployed to an urban duty station 305 persons (93%) reported. But in rural districts, 26% of deployed graduates did not report to their place of destination. (Source: Human Resources for Health Deployment Tracking Study- 2010)

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