ACC/SCN

Administrative Coordinating Committee Sub-Committee on Nutrition of the United Nations

AIDS

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

BMI

Body Mass Index

BRALUP

Bureau of Resource Assessment and Land Use Planning (now IRA)

CBS

Central Bureau of Statistics

CCM

Chama cha Mapinduzi, ruling party in Tanzania

CDWAC

Community Development, Women Affairs and Children

CMR

Child Mortality Rate

CSD

Child Survival and Development

CSPD

Child Survival Protection and Development

DHS

Demographic and Health Survey

ECSA

Eastern Central and Southern Africa

ERB

Economic Research Bureau

ERP

Economic Recovery Programme

FAO

Food and Agriculture Organization

GDP

Gross Domestic Product

GNP

Gross National Product

HBS

Household Budget Survey

HESAWA

Health Environmental Sanitation and Water

HIV

Human Immuno-deficiency Virus

ICCIDD

International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders

IDD

Iodine Deficiency Disorders

ILO

International Labour Organization

IMR

Infant Mortality Rate

INACG

International Nutritional Anaemia Consultative Group

IVACG

International Vitamin A Consultative Group

JNSP

Joint Nutrition Support Programme

NCCIDD

National Committee on Control of IDD

NNACG

National Nutritional Anaemia Consultative Group

NVACG

National Vitamin A Consultative Group

NCHS

National Centre for Health Statistics

MCH

Maternal and Child Health

MOH

Ministry of Health

PEM

Protein Energy Malnutrition

PEU

Protein Energy Undernutrition

PED

Protein Energy Deficiency

PMO

Prime Minister’s Officer

SIDA

Swedish International Development Agency

SUA

Sokoine University of Agriculture

TANU

Tanganyika African National Union

TBA

Traditional Birth Attendants

TDHS

Tanzania Health and Demographic Survey

TFNC

Tanzania Food and Nutrition Centre

UDSM

University of Dar es Salaam

UNDP

United Nations Development Programme

UNICEF

United Nations Children’s Fund

U5MR

Under Five Mortality Rate

UPE

Universal Primary Education

UNHCR

United Nations High Commission for Refugees

URT

United Republic of Tanzania

VAD

Vitamin A Deficiency

WHO

World Health Organization