Comprehensive Community Based Rehabilitation Tanzania

Comprehensive Community Based Rehabilitation Tanzania (CCBRT) is a Tanzanian healthcare NGO. It is one of Tanzania's largest providers of disability and rehabilitation services.[1][2]

CCBRT works with the Tanzanian government to provide free and subsidized services to low-income Tanzanians in four core areas: ophthalmology; orthopedics and physical rehabilitation; plastic surgery and reconstructive surgery; and maternal, newborn and child health (including fistula).[3]

CCBRT was established in 1994.[4] In 2004 CCBRT started offering private services to help subsidize health care costs, and in 2018 a new private clinic building was opened.[3] Willibrod Slaa is the President of the Board and its CEO from 2006 to 2018 was Erwin Telemans. Brenda Msangi was appointed CEO in December 2018.[5]

  1. ^ Ending obstetric fistula: Devastating and preventable childbirth injury continues to haunt women, UNFPA, 21 May 2019.
  2. ^ End ‘shame, isolation and segregation’ of fistula sufferers, urges UN reproductive health chief, United Nations, 23 May 2019.
  3. ^ a b 'Domestic investment into health systems and services is crucial', The Guardian, 23 March 2019.
  4. ^ 50 people living with disability on CCBRT database get jobs, The Citizen, 18 September 2019.
  5. ^ Tanzanian woman becomes new head of CCBRT, IPP Media, 19 December 2018.