In 2024
Doctors with Africa CUAMM continued its commitment in Mozambique in 2024, strengthening and expanding its activities in the provinces of Maputo, Sofala, Zambezia, Tete and Cabo Delgado. Our support for Beira Central Hospital was reinforced, with a special focus on neonatology and pediatrics.
CUAMM’s partnership with the Catholic University of Beira was intensified thanks to study grants, the sending of teachers and assistance in the creation of the maternity ward at the São Lucas Health Center. To improve access to services, the local emergency network was guaranteed 24 hours a day, with a free ambulance dispatched from a single number. Through this service, about 800 people per month were transported to Beira Central Hospital.
2024 also saw the continuation of the sexual and reproductive health program for adolescents in Tete and Sofala provinces. In Tete, we worked to fortify the Provincial Hospital and six healthcare facilities in the Angonia and Mutarara districts via staff training. In Sofala, the same program took shape via mobile clinics and primary prevention initiatives in schools and local communities. Our efforts to manage non-transmissible chronic diseases such as type 1 and 2 diabetes, hypertension and cervical cancer was upheld and even expanded with programs for prevention, early diagnosis and therapeutic management. Floods damaged infrastructure and homes, furthering the spread of cholera. Doctors with Africa CUAMM took action to contain and manage the epidemic in the provinces of Cabo Delgado, Zambezia, Sofala and Tete, uniting monitoring, treatment and awareness raising.
In Cabo Delgado Province, we continued our humanitarian work for mental health and assistance for victims of gender-based violence, providing psychological support and services to over 40,000 people. In terms of nutrition, we reinforced mobile clinics with screenings, the identification and reference of critical cases, and awareness raising and training for the staff and community.
OUR HISTORY IN MOZAMBIQUE
1978
Launch of healthcare cooperation projects.
1992/97
Interventions for functional rehabilitation of health network in Sofala Province.
1997/2001
Support provided to Provincial Health Directorates (Sofala, Zambezia and Maputo).
2002
Support provided to Beira Central Hospital.
2004
Partnership with the Catholic University of Mozambique in Beira.
2014
Intervention in Cabo Delgado Province.
2016
“Mothers and Children First. The First 1,000 Days” program.
2017
Intervention in Tete Province to combat HIV/AIDS among the adolescent population; in addition, launch of program to fight noncommunicable diseases.
2018
Relations begun with Mozambique’s Ministry of Health to draw up national guidelines on the management and treatment of diabetes and hypertension.
2019
Program to combat noncommunicable diseases begun at primary healthcare level and 4th-level hospitals. Sofala and Cabo Delgado Provinces severely damaged by tropical cyclones Idai and Kenneth.
2022
Launch of the third phase of the “Mothers and Children First” program: “People and Skills”.
