Medical Association of Tanzania(MAT)

What Medical Association of Tanzania(MAT) does

The Medical Association of Tanzania (MAT) is a national professional association founded in 1965 and headquartered in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. It is positioned as the representative body for physicians and medical professionals in Tanzania, operating within the East African market. The organization is registered under the .tz domain and operates with a very lean staff of approximately 7 employees, which is unusual for a national professional association of its tenure and suggests either a volunteer-driven operating model, a reliance on member contributions, or a structurally minimal administrative footprint.

No products, services, technology stack, pricing model, or revenue mechanics are disclosed in the available source data. The association's website (mat.or.tz) is reported in a loading/verification state, with no accessible content regarding membership tiers, dues, programs, advocacy positions, or continuing education offerings. As a chartered national medical association, the implicit business model is consistent with peer organizations globally — funded through member dues, conference revenues, and possibly grants — but none of these revenue streams are quantified or confirmed in the input.

The available third-party data profile is sparse: no management team, no partnerships, no awards, no certifications, no funding rounds, and no disclosed financials are recorded. The single piece of verifiable content beyond the firmographic record is the non-rendering website. Consequently, this analysis is constrained to the limited firmographic signals and must avoid inferring operational details that the source data does not support.

Name

Medical Association of Tanzania(MAT)

Legal name

Medical Association of Tanzania

Website

https://mat.or.tz

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Medical Association of Tanzania (MAT) is a national professional association founded in 1965, headquartered in Dar es Salaam, representing physicians and medical professionals in Tanzania. The organization operates with a lean staff of approximately 7 employees.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Professional Medical Association

NAICS

Professional Organizations (81392), Business, Professional, Labor, Political, and Similar Organizations (8139)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYHLAJAKAN

Global Health Research, Evidence & Technical Assistance Organizations

Healthcare & Life Sciences/Public Health, Government & Regulators/Global Health & Development Agencies (NGOs/Multilaterals)

Keywords

• Medical professional membership
• Physician advocacy
• Medical association services
• Healthcare professional body
• Continuing medical education

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations

Core offering

Medical Association of Tanzania (MAT) is a professional membership body for medical practitioners and physicians in Tanzania, founded in 1965 and based in Dar es Salaam. The organization represents the interests of the medical profession in Tanzania and provides professional association services to its members.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Professional Medical Membership

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Broad incumbents

• American Medical Association: The dominant US national medical professional association; while far larger and globally influential, it is the canonical model for what a national medical association does (advocacy, education, member benefits, ethics).
• World Medical Association: Global federation of national medical associations; MAT is the type of organization that affiliates with the WMA, making it a structural peer for international advocacy and standards-setting.
• British Medical Association: Largest UK professional medical association; comparable in function (member services, advocacy, CME, publishing) at much greater scale, often used as a structural template for national medical associations.

Regional players

• East African Health Professions Council Organizations (umbrella bodies): Regional health-professions coordinating bodies across East Africa; comparable in their cross-border professional representation role and provide a regional layer that complements national associations like MAT.
• Medical and Dental Council of Tanzania: Official regulatory body for medical and dental practitioners in Tanzania; while regulatory rather than representative, it shares the same Tanzanian medical-professional mandate and member base as MAT.

Direct peers

• Kenya Medical Association: National professional association for physicians in Kenya, the closest regional peer in East Africa with a comparable mandate of representing doctors, running CME, and engaging in health policy.
• South African Medical Association: National professional association for doctors in South Africa; comparable in mandate, structure, and dues-based funding model, and serves as a reference point for what a scaled African medical association can become.
• Nigerian Medical Association: National professional medical association in Nigeria, the largest Anglophone African medical association; serves a directly analogous role for Nigerian physicians and operates a similar membership-and-advocacy model.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights3 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/medical-association-of-tanzania-mat

Revenue estimate

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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