Abbreviations

AIDS

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

CBHC

Community Based Health Care

CCM

Party of the Revolution (Chama cha Mapinduzi)

CDD

National Control of Diarrhoea Diseases

ED

Essential Drug Programme

ELCT

Evangelic Lutheran Churches of Tanzania

EPI

Expanded Programme of Immunization

ERP

Economic Recovery Programme

ESAP

Economic and Social Action Programme

FPP

Family Planning Programme

GDP

Gross Domestic Product

GNP

Gross National Product

HDI

Human Development Index

HFA 2000

Health for All by the Year 2000

HIV

Human Immunodeficiency Virus

MCH

Maternal and Child Health Programme

NCCR

National Convention and Constructional Reform

NGO

Non-Governmental Organization

ORT

Oral Rehydration Therapy

PHC

Primary Health Care

TANU

Tanganyika African Union

UNDP

United Nations Development Programme

UPE

Universal Primary Education

WHO

World Health Organization