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The Tanzania Midwives Association (TAMA) is the national professional association of registered and enrolled midwives in Tanzania. It was founded in 1992

It is an independent volunteer-led organization with 20 branches and more than 4,000 active members.

03/11/2026

What does it take to build a stronger midwives' association? We got to work on the answer today. 💙

At C*D Hotel, TAMA leadership, staff, and branch chairpersons from Dodoma, Morogoro, Pwani, Singida, and Dar es Salaam came together with our partner Canadian Association of Midwives to shape our Costed Organizational Improvement Plan (OIP), a clear roadmap to make TAMA stronger, more sustainable, and better able to serve every midwife in Tanzania. 🇹🇿

Here's what happened 👇
✅ We reviewed findings from our MACAT self-assessment and MAAC organizational assessment
✅ Our OIP consultant presented the inception report
✅ Leadership, branch chairpersons, staff, and partners pinpointed our priority gaps and next steps

This is part of the Thamini Uzazi Salama project, implemented by TAMA through the Canadian Association of Midwives and funded by Global Affairs Canada High Commission of Canada in Tanzania 🇹🇿🤝🇨🇦

🙏 Thank you, Global Affairs Canada, High Commission of Canada in Tanzania for funding this work, and Canadian Association of Midwives, for walking this journey with us.

Strong association ➡️ stronger midwives ➡️ safer mothers and newborns. 👩🏾‍⚕️👶🏾

👀 Stay tuned! We'll share updates as the Costed OIP takes shape.
💬 Midwives, what's one thing you'd love TAMA to improve? Drop it in the comments 👇
🔁 Share this with a midwife who should be part of the journey.

01/11/2026

Meet Midwife Beatrice Augustino Sangiwa of Kinondoni Health Centre, a true superstar. ⭐💜

A mother in labour at Ndumbwi Dispensary was waiting to be transferred. Midwife Beatrice arrived with the ambulance, but she stopped to check her first. 🛑

That one decision changed everything.

👶🏾 The baby was coming FACE FIRST, a rare and risky presentation
🍽️ The mother hadn't eaten in 12 hours and was losing strength

So she acted:
✅ Fluids to restore the mother's energy
✅ The baby's heartbeat checked every 15 minutes
✅ Calm support at her side the whole time

Fifty minutes later, with Midwife Mary and Midwife Beatrice of Ndumbwi Dispensary, she helped deliver a healthy 3.7 kg baby boy. 🎉 Mother and baby home safe. 🏡

Her superpower goes beyond one birth. 🦸🏾‍♀️

A highly competent midwife with extensive skills built across her career, she is trained in MEST (Midwifery Emergency Skills Training) and the Safe Delivery App (SDA). 🎓

After MEST in February 2025, she came home and trained her colleagues, including:
⭐ Midwife Hance, who revived a silent newborn in 23 breaths
⭐ Midwife Tupack, who saved a mother and her 5.2 kg baby

Every life they save carries a piece of her teaching. 💫

Midwife Beatrice, TAMA is so proud of you! 👏🏾🇹🇿

💬 Drop a ⭐ for Midwife Beatrice and tag the midwife who taught you!

The Thamini Uzazi Salama project is implemented by TAMA and the Canadian Association of Midwives , in partnership with United Nations Population Fund Amref Health Africa - Tanzania (Amref Tanzania) Wizara ya Afya Tanzania, with funding from Global Affairs Canada High Commission of Canada in Tanzania

Midwife the Saving Hands. Mkunga, Mkono Uokoao.

25/10/2026

"Mkunga, angalia nyuma!" 😳

The baby wasn't crying.

TAMA member Romana Michael Kisheo was alone at Sirop Dispensary in Hanang, more than 50 km from the district centre. She dried the baby, cleared the mouth and nose, and gently rubbed the baby. Nothing. So she started helping the baby breathe with a breathing bag.

One breath. Two.

Then a relative screamed. Romana turned around. The mother was bleeding heavily.

Two emergencies. One midwife. No backup. 🚨

She kept the baby breathing while she massaged the mother's womb, gave medicine to stop the bleeding and put a drip in her arm.

Then the baby's eyes opened. 🥹

But the mother was getting weaker, and the ambulance was still far away. Romana raised her legs to keep blood flowing to her heart and brain, watched her closely, and kept going. Exhausted. Afraid. Not stopping.

The ambulance finally came. The next day, the news arrived:
Mother and baby alive and well. 💚

That day shook her so much that she questioned whether she could continue. Instead, it taught her what midwifery truly takes: being prepared, knowing what to do, working as a team, deciding fast, and using information to reach every mother.

In five years at Sirop, she never lost a mother or newborn.

"Behind every statistic is a family."

Every mother deserves a safe birth.
Every newborn deserves a chance to breathe. 🙏🏾

👇 Tag a midwife who has saved a life.
👉 TAMA member? Share your lifesaving story in the comments or DM us. Yours could be next.

23/10/2026

The baby was born in a bajaji (motorcycle taxi). Not breathing. Not crying. 😰

April 2026, Kinondoni Health Centre. A cleaner ran into the labour ward: "There's a woman giving birth in a bajaji at the gate!"

23-year-old midwife Hance Hurbat Chandu grabbed gloves and ran. 🏃🏾‍♂️

The baby was already born, but limp and silent.

He cut the cord, rushed the baby to the warmer and started bag-and-mask ventilation.

1 breath… 5… 10… 20…

On breath 23, the baby cried. 😭💜

But Hance wasn't finished. Within the hour he spotted two more dangers:
⚠️ Low blood sugar, so he gave glucose
⚠️ A low body temperature after the birth outside, so he started kangaroo mother care with the baby skin-to-skin on mum's chest

Two days later, Hance called the mother. The baby was warm, breastfeeding and going home. 🏡👶🏾

"I felt so happy to have saved that baby's life. It is a case I will never forget." – Hance 🙏🏾

Just 23 years old, with 126 deliveries and one life he'll carry forever.

He learned these skills from colleagues who attended Midwifery Emergency Skills Training (MEST) under the Thamini Uzazi Salama project and came home to train their team. Midwives teaching midwives. 🙌🏾

💬 How many breaths would you have counted before giving up? Hance didn't stop.
👇🏾 Drop a 💜 for Hance and tag a midwife who never gives up.

The Thamini Uzazi Salama project is implemented by TAMA and the Canadian Association of Midwives , in partnership with Amref Health Africa - Tanzania (Amref Tanzania) and United Nations Population Fund UNFPA , with funding from High Commission of Canada in Tanzania Global Affairs Canada.

Midwife the Saving Hands. Mkunga, Mkono Uokoao.

21/10/2026

Strengthening Midwifery Through Strategic Partnerships

TAMA is pleased to share key outcomes from a productive meeting with Dr. Ntuli, Director General of ECSA-HC Ntuli Kapologwe to explore collaboration in advancing midwifery education, practice, and advocacy. ECSACONM ECSA Health Community

Key areas of collaboration include:

🔹 Strengthening pre-service midwifery education through simulation-based learning and supervised clinical practice.

🔹 Advancing the Midwifery Model of Care through technical and advocacy support.

🔹 Collaborating on the Mkunga Marathon 2027 through joint planning and coordination.

🔹 Formalizing the TAMA–ECSA-HC partnership through a proposed MoU signing during the International Day of the Midwife commemoration in May 2027.

TAMA appreciates Dr. Ntuli and the ECSA-HC team for their openness to collaboration. We also recognize Wizara Ya Afya DNMS office and Dr. Beatrice Beatrice Mwilike for their engagement and commitment to advancing these shared priorities.

Together, we are working towards stronger midwifery services and better maternal and newborn health outcomes across the region.

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18/10/2026

9:30 p.m. The baby's head is born. Then everything stops. Her shoulders are stuck. 😰

This is shoulder dystocia, one of the most frightening emergencies in childbirth. Every second counts.

Nurse-midwife Tupack Lameck Katani didn't panic.

✅ He called for help immediately
✅ He led his team through the McRoberts manoeuvre and suprapubic pressure
✅ He repaired the mother's tears himself

Then came the cry. 👶🏾 A healthy baby girl weighing 5.2 kg, and a mother safe and well.

"We saved the lives of both the mother and her baby." – Tupack 🙏🏾

Tupack has cared for mothers in Iringa, Mbeya, Ruvuma, Kagera and now Dar es Salaam, where he has served at Kinondoni Health Centre for more than five years. 1,000 babies brought safely into the world. 5+ years at Kinondoni. And on this night, two lives saved. He sharpened these emergency skills through training his colleagues brought home from the Thamini Uzazi Salama project's Midwifery Emergency Skills Training (MEST).

Tupack, TAMA is proud of you. Skilled, calm and ready when it matters most: this is what a Tanzanian midwife looks like. 💪🏾🇹🇿

💬 Drop a 💜 for Tupack and every midwife saving lives across Tanzania.

Thamini Uzazi Salama is implemented by TAMA with Canadian Association of MidwivesAmref Health Africa UNFPA Tanzania funded by High Commission of Canada to Tanzania

Midwife the Saving Hands. Mkunga, Mkono Uokoao.

16/10/2026

A mother can bleed to death within hours of giving birth. Most of these deaths are preventable. 🩸

Guidelines alone do not save lives. Implementation does.

This week in Dar es Salaam (12–15 Oct), TAMA joined delegates from 24 African countries at the Regional Workshop on Strengthening Prevention and Management of Postpartum Haemorrhage (PPH). 🌍

🎙️ Opening the workshop, the Guest of Honour, Chief Medical Officer Prof. Bruno Sunguya, urged African countries to build national PPH strategies. He also called on partners to invest more in training and mentoring midwives and health workers. "Every mother's life saved brings Africa closer to its development goals," he said.

The message was clear: evidence must reach the frontline. That means skilled midwives, essential medicines, safe blood, effective referrals and emergency readiness in every facility.

Midwives are there at every birth. When we are trained, equipped and supported, mothers survive. 👩🏾‍⚕️💙

Supported by the SafeBirth Africa Project, co-funded by 🇪🇺 International Partnerships, with United Nations Population Fund.

💬 Midwives: what does your facility need most to stop PPH? Tell us below 👇🏾

Midwife, the Saving Hands

14/10/2026

Today, TAMA joins the nation in commemorating Nyerere Day, honouring the legacy of Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere and his enduring values of unity, equality, self-reliance and people-centred development. 🇹🇿

“Our unity is our strength and our diversity is our wealth.”

13/10/2026

TAMA Tumbi Branch conducted hands-on Newborn Resuscitation training with our dedicated midwives at Tumbi R.R Hospital_Pwani.

When a baby struggles to breathe at birth, every second counts. In the first minute of life, the Golden Minute, a skilled midwife can make the difference between life and death.

During the session, midwives practised how to:
✅ Dry and stimulate the newborn
✅ Clear the airway
✅ Give effective breaths with a bag & mask
✅ Monitor the baby's response step by step

Skills sharpened through practice are skills that save lives. We salute the midwives of Tumbi for their commitment to every baby born. 💙

👉 Are you a TAMA member or a TAMA branch with a story to tell? Please share it with us! Send us a DM or tag Tanzania Midwives Association 🇹🇿 so we can celebrate your work together.

Midwife, the Saving Hands 🤲🏾

11/10/2026

5 babies. 135 days. And the midwives who never left their side.

At 19 weeks, a scan in Mtwara found five heartbeats inside Furaha Salum Chilambo. Months later, she carried all five babies home, because midwives and doctors worked as one team. 👇

🩺 Pregnancy: Midwives ran her antenatal care every two weeks, while obstetricians tracked the babies by ultrasound.

Home visit: At 26 weeks, midwives and an obstetrician visited her home, spotted early warning signs and agreed with the family that she should be admitted.

🤝 The plan: When labour started early, the midwifery department brought 11 departments together, from obstetrics and paediatrics to theatre, NICU and pharmacy, around one plan.

The birth: On 7 August, the obstetric team performed a caesarean section and all five babies were born within three minutes of each other. Midwives and nurses stood ready, one nurse for every baby.

After birth: Paediatricians, nurses and midwives reviewed the babies daily. Midwives supported kangaroo care and breastfeeding and cared for Furaha as she recovered.

Going home: Midwives counselled her on family planning, taught her to care for five newborns at home and set up weekly follow-ups.

🌟 At TAMA, we proudly celebrate our members and the team behind this miracle:
👩🏾‍⚕️ Cresensia N. Mlelwa, Midwife Specialist & Educator, TAMA member. 14+ years of service, 367 safe deliveries.
👩🏾‍⚕️ Ailen Nicholaus, Midwife, TAMA member. 6+ years of service, 300 safe deliveries.
👨🏾‍⚕️ Stanuel Kosani, Manager of Nursing Services, Maternal & Child Health
👨🏾‍⚕️ Fredy Mchira, Nursing Officer In-Charge, NICU
And every obstetrician, paediatrician and staff member at Southern Zone Referral Hospital, Mtwara. Thank you! 👏🏾

When midwives and doctors work together, mothers and babies survive. Midwife, the Saving Hands. 🙌🏾

📩 Are you a TAMA member? DM us your life-saving story and we’ll feature you!

💬 Which midwife stood by your family? Tell us in the comments.

🔁 Share so every mother knows who stands beside her.

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Plot. 6/2. Corner Of Kilimani/Ali Hassan Mwinyi Road
Dar Es Salaam
P.O.BOX65524DSM

Website

http://www.tama.co.tz/

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