Tanzania, June 22 -- Dodoma. The government has directed regional and district health authorities to ensure that gains made through a nine-year family planning programme are not lost following the closure of a UK-funded initiative that expanded reproductive health services to millions of Tanzanians.

Speaking during a learning symposium in Dodoma to mark the official close-out of the Scaling Up Family Planning (SuFP) Programme, Chief Medical Officer Dr Grace Magembe instructed Regional Medical Officers (RMOs) and District Medical Officers (DMOs) to integrate successful interventions into local plans and budgets to guarantee continuity of services.

Dr Magembe said the officials had not been invited merely to witness the end of the program...