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Tanzania

RICE International Relief Corporation has provided medical supplies to partners going to Tanzania.

Tanzania Highlights (Source: CIA Factbook):

  • Tanzania is located in Eastern Africa, bordering the Indian Ocean, between Kenya and Mozambique and is slightly larger than twice the size of California.
  • The population of Tanzania consists of 41,048,532 persons.
  • The infant mortality rate in Peru is 69.28 deaths/1,000 live births.
  • People in Peru living with HIV/AIDS are estimated to be 1.4 million.
  • HIV/AIDs deaths in Peru yearly: 96,000
  • The major infectious diseases in Peru are as follows:
    • Bacterial Diarrhea, Hepatitis A, Typhoid Fever
    • Malaria and plague
    • Schistosomiasis
    • Rabies
  • Tanzania is in the bottom ten percent of the world's economies in terms of per capital income.
  • Tanzania still hosts more than a half-million refugees- more than any other African country
  • Tanzania is a growing role in transshipment of Southwest and Southeast Asian Heroin, as well as South American Cocaine destined for South African, European, and US markets.
  • Refugees and IDP's: 352,640

Tanzania Highlights

Tanzania Highlights