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  2. Orphanage - Wikipedia

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    An orphanage is a residential institution, total institution or group home, devoted to the care of orphans and children who, for various reasons, cannot be cared for by their biological families. The parents may be deceased, absent, or abusive. There may be substance abuse or mental illness in the biological home, or the parent may simply be ...

  3. History of Tanzania - Wikipedia

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    History of Tanzania. The modern-day African Great Lakes state of Tanzania dates formally from 1964, when it was formed out of the union of the much larger mainland territory of Tanganyika and the coastal archipelago of Zanzibar. The former was a colony and part of German East Africa from the 1880s to 1919 when, under the League of Nations, it ...

  4. HIV/AIDS in Tanzania - Wikipedia

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    The prevalence of HIV/AIDS in Tanzania is characterised by substantial across age, gender, geographical location and socioeconomic status implying difference in the risk of transmission of infection. [1] In 2019, among 1.7 million people living with HIV /AIDS, the prevalence was 4.6% and 58,000 new HIV infection among 15–49 years old, and ...

  5. Timeline of Tanzanian history - Wikipedia

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    The Tanzanian parliament moves from Dar es Salaam to the new capital of Dodoma. [68] The United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya are simultaneously bombed. [69] Julius Nyerere dies of leukaemia in London. [52] The East African Community Treaty between Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda is signed in Arusha.

  6. Category:Orphanages in Africa - Wikipedia

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    W. Watoto Child Care Ministries. Categories: Orphanages by continent. Buildings and structures in Africa by type. Child-related organizations based in Africa.

  7. Dodoma - Wikipedia

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    Dodoma ( lit. 'It has sunk' in Gogo ), officially Dodoma City ( Jiji Kuu la Dodoma, in Swahili ), is the capital of Tanzania [3] and the administrative capital of both Dodoma Municipal Council and the entire Dodoma Region, with a population of 765,179. [4] [3] In 1974, the Tanzanian government announced that Tanzania 's federal capital would be ...

  8. Apostolic Vicariate of Tanganyika - Wikipedia

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    27 September 1880 – 10 May 1946. The Apostolic Vicariate of Tanganyika was a Catholic apostolic vicariate (missionary pre-diocesan jurisdiction) of the White Fathers missionary order at first centered on the mission of Karema in what is now Tanzania, that included parts of what are now Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia ...

  9. HIV/AIDS in Africa - Wikipedia

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    Southern Africa is the worst affected region on the continent. As of 2011, HIV has infected at least 10 percent of the population in Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Eswatini, Zambia, and Zimbabwe . In response, a number of initiatives have been launched in various parts of the continent to educate the public on HIV ...