CUAMM “Enciende la llama” in Angola, Mozambique and Sierra Leone and participates in the global campaign Enciende tu compromiso launched by Manos Unidas.
Lighting a candle as a symbol of the promise of a better world, is the call of the Spanish NGO “an act to which society can actively join in and thus demonstrate its support for the countries of the South and the action that Manos Unidas supports in them”. Today, Doctors with Africa CUAMM is glad to shed a light on its commitment in Angola, Mozambique and Sierra Leone thus advocate with Manos Unidas for the commitment to building a more equal world.
Through the partnership with Manos Unidas, Doctors with Africa CUAMM has and still is promoting health development interventions in multiple countries in sub-Saharan Africa, namely Angola, Mozambique and Sierra Leone with field of interventions ranging from maternal and neonatal health to HIV response among youth and adolescents.
In Angola CUAMM and Manos Unidas join efforts in favor of women and newborns by providing integrated health and nutritional services in Chiulo Catholic Hospital. An intervention that will directly benefit 1.976 recipients while reaching an overall number of about 300.000 people in the drought affected province of Cunene.
In Sierra Leone through “Improving quality care and diagnostic services for critical-ill mothers” CUAMM and Manos Unidas are working to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity in Bombali District where the Holy Spirit Hospital is located. By providing specialised training on HDU and supporting the hospital (HSH) with the provision of equipment for the establishment of an HDU as well as laboratory reagents to enhance diagnostic services, the intervention aims at reaching 6.010 recipients, mainly pregnant women.
In Mozambique, youth and adolescents were the direct recipients of an intervention planned to improve access to HIV services in 9 SAAJs (Serviço Amigo do Adolescente e Jovem) in Beira city and Nhamatanda district. The intervention aimed to educate young people/adolescents (ages 10-24) about safe sexual behaviors, encourage (voluntary) HIV testing, improve access to and quality of HIV healthcare services for adolescents/youth, and ensure adherence to ART, particularly for pregnant and breastfeeding HIV-positive women.
