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UHC & health insurance in Tanzania
Tanzania passed the Universal Health Insurance Act in 2023 and is progressively merging NHIF and iCHF into a single scheme covering the entire population.
National scheme
National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF), improved Community Health Fund (iCHF), Ministry of Health.
Priority challenges
- •Merge NHIF and iCHF without disrupting rights
- •Cover informal workers and agriculture
- •Connect rural dispensaries with low connectivity
- •Combat benefit fraud
What Afri CNAM brings to Tanzania
- Unified NHIF + iCHF beneficiary registry
- Mobile money (M-Pesa, Tigo Pesa) for contributions
- Robust offline mode for rural dispensaries
- Consolidated reporting for the MoH and Treasury