Dar es Salaam, Aug. 16 -- Members of Parliament (MPs), from across Africa and Asia have said inadequate space for health services is a big challenge that delays the delivery of quality health services in Tanzania.

The MPs raised this concern in Dar es Salaam, when they met and held talks with MPs from the Parliament of Tanzania and those from the Zanzibar House of Representatives recently.

Chairman of the Tanzania Parliamentary Association on Population and Development (TPAPD), Jamal Kassim MP said other challenges were low participation of men in the reproductive health programme and lack of awareness of contraceptives.

"The main purpose of the tour was to exchange information and share experience and knowledge of reproductive maternal,...