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Exploring HTA Development in Tanzania: A Scoping Visit

On April 7-10, 2015, a HITAP team visited Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, for a country scoping visit to explore the potential areas for introducing health technology assessment (HTA) to support health resource allocation, focusing on the investment or disinvestment of health technologies. This visit was conducted in collaboration with PATH, an international health organization based in Seattle, under the Access to Delivery Partnership (ADP) programme of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

On the first day, the PATH and HITAP team interviewed representatives on the topic from various stakeholders in priority setting, such as the Quality Assurance Division in the Tanzanian Ministry of Health, the Global Fund’s Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM), and theA 24-year-old Greenbelt man is facing hate crime charges after allegedly stabbing a transgender teen while aboard a Metro train on Wednesday afternoon.

Reginald Anthony Klaiber, also known as Reginald Kaliber, faces a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon, with a bias enhancement, for the attack against the 15-year-old girl. According to charging documents, Klaiber boarded a Green Line train headed south in the direction of Branch Avenue at the West Hyattsville station and approached the teen, who was on board with two friends. Klaiber became belligerent, repeatedly asking the teen, “Are you a boy, you are a boy, right, you got a dick, right?”

At first, the victim tried to ignore Klaiber, but he continued harassing her. According to charging documents, the victim told Klaiber, “Please leave me