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Delivering an AIDS-Free Generation: Extending the Provision of Integrated ANC/PMTCT B+ Services via Private Nurses and Midwives in Tanzania

The SHOPS project implemented an innovative service delivery intervention focused on rapid scale-up of PMTCT via Tanzania’s private health sector. The intervention targeted the three priority elements outlined in the MOHSW’s national EMTCT plan: addressing severe human resource shortages in the health sector, promoting public-private partnership and engaging the private health sector, and scaling up an integrated community-based ANC and PMTCT B+ service package. To address these diverse priorities, the SHOPS project implemented an intervention that emphasized engagement with Tanzanian partners at both the policy level and in community-based practice. The overall goal of the SHOPS intervention was to stimulate rapid scale-up of integrated ANC and PMTCT B+ services delivered via private nurses and midwives in underserved and high need community-based settings in Tanzania. This report details the SHOPS project's intervention methodology, outcomes, and findings.