SAT Mozambique - Related News

  • Self-forming patient groups in Mozambique succesfully distribute ARVs, monitor treatment
    12 January 2011
    NAM aidsmap

    Self-forming groups of patients which distribute antiretroviral drugs to those on treatment have proved highly successful in retaining patients in care in Mozambique, and drastically reduced the need for patients to travel to health facilities, according to Tom Decroo and colleagues in a study reported in the advance online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.

  • Mozambique: Reaching the handicapped with HIV prevention
    9 January 2010
    aidsportal

    The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 10 percent of Mozambique's 20 million inhabitants have some form of disability, but HIV prevention campaigns have so far ignored the fact that young disabled people are also at risk of infection. The Ministry of Health has put the number of HIV-positive handicapped Mozambicans at around 324,000.

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