Date of publication:
08/22/2025
United Republic of Tanzania (the)
Do domestic laws and policies provide access to sexual and reproductive healthcare services for forcibly displaced and stateless persons?
Assessment by population
Analysis
Tanzania's legal and policy framework addresses sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services through various instruments aimed at improving public health outcomes. The National Health Policy of 2007, the Reproductive and Child Health Policy Guidelines, and the National Adolescent Reproductive Health Strategy 2011–2015 are key documents that outline the country's commitment to enhancing SRH services. These policies emphasize the importance of providing comprehensive SRH services, including family planning, maternal health care, and education on reproductive rights. Tanzania's legal and policy framework addresses sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services through various instruments aimed at improving public health outcomes. The National Health Policy of 2007, the Reproductive and Child Health Policy Guidelines, and the National Adolescent Reproductive Health Strategy 2011–2015 are key documents that outline the country's commitment to enhancing SRH services. These policies emphasize the importance of providing comprehensive SRH services, including family planning, maternal health care, and education on reproductive rights.
Related provisions of domestic law or policy
National Health Policy
- Year: 2017
- Type: Domestic policy
- Rights Category: Health
- Link to external source: https://www.eahealth.org/sites/www.eahealth.org/files/content/attachments/2018-07-23/Nationahealthpolicy_en.pdf
Legal provision
Section 4.1- RMNCH+A Services
The policy strongly recommends strengthening of general health systems to prevent and manage maternal complications, to ensure continuity of care and emergency services for maternal health.
Reproductive and Child Health Policy Guidelines
- Year: 2021
- Type: Other
- Rights Category: Health
- Link to external source: https://www.moh.go.tz/services/19
Legal provision
Section 2.1 – Goals and Objectives
To promote and provide integrated reproductive and child health services that are accessible, acceptable, and affordable to individuals and families, with special focus on vulnerable groups.
National Adolescent Reproductive Health Strategy
- Year: 2018
- Type: Other
- Rights Category: Health
- Link to external source: https://scorecard.prb.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/020518_Adolescent-and-Development-Strategy-Tanzania_vF.pdf
Legal provision
Section 1.3 – Objectives of the Strategy
To create an enabling policy environment and legal framework that facilitates successful implementation of interventions which make it possible for adolescents to exercise their sexual and reproductive health rights.
Penal Code
- Year: 1945
- Type: Domestic law
- Rights Category: Liberty & security of person, Nationality & facilitated naturalization
- Link to external source: https://elibrary.osg.go.tz/handle/123456789/221
Legal provision
Sections 150 – Offenses Against Morality
Any person who, with intent to procure miscarriage of a woman, whether she is or is not with child, unlawfully administers to her any poison or noxious thing, or uses any force of any kind, or uses any other means whatever, is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years.