These Simple Health Strategies Are Reducing Intimate Partner Violence in Tanzania

Two health program methods are rarely used in Tanzania but have significantly reduced intimate partner violence in some communities, an ongoing study found.

International development organization BRAC’s Tanzania chapter recently released data from a study conducted in partnership with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Global Lab for Research in Action. The project entitled “Tanzania: Promoting Safe Sex Among Adolescents” demonstrates progress in efforts to improve sexual and reproductive health for adolescent girls and young women and reduce intimate partner violence. Educational health programs for men and boys and goal-setting for women and girls have shown promising results.

Researchers have worked with women and girls at BRAC’s 150 Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescents (ELA) clubs for girls and women in 200 Tanzanian communities for the study since 2016. Study participants included 4,000 adolescent women and 2,000 adolescent men in the cities of Dodoma, Iringa, and Mbeya. Read more at Globalcitizen.org