Alfred Chonya (LAPNARD Tanzania) and Guus van den Berg (Larenstein student rural Development & Innovation) will produce in July and August a participatory video production in Tabora, Tanzania.

paper presented at the second LAPNARD network meeting in Zambia

LAPNARD country network TANZANIA – June 2002

HIV/AIDS was first reported in North America in 1981. Until the end of 1983 more than 120.000 AIDS patients from more than 140 countries in all five continents of the world of the world have been reported by the world health organisation (WHO). By the year 2000, there were more than 36 million HIV/AIDS victims in the world, comprising of 16,4 million women, 18,3 million men and 1,4 million children under 15 years old.

The AIDS situation in Tanzania

AIDS was discovered in Tanzania in 1983 where 3 patients were reported in Kagera region. AIDS started spreading at a very high rate and by 1986 all regions in Tanzania reported cases of AIDS patients. Since 1983 to 2000 the ministry of health has already reported 130.380 patients from all Tanzania regions. In the period of January to December 1999, it was estimated that there are 1,75 million people in the mainland of Tanzania were infected by HIV. NACP however, estimates that only 1 in 5 cases are reported.