The maternal health project is a joint effort between the Tanzanian government, World Lung Foundation (WLF) as implementers, and Bloomberg Philanthropies, which has funded this effort for the past seven years. The goal of this program is to increase access to emergency obstetric care, and to reduce maternal deaths.
The staging of 9 eye screening, refraction and surgery camps that will provide eye examinations to a total of 4, 500 poor people, prescribe glasses to 2, 250 visually impaired people and perform blindness prevention cataract surgery for 405 people. Services will be provided at no cost to beneficiaries.