Mozambique

In Maputo, we provide HIV testing and treatment for people who use drugs, while in Beira we offer sexual and reproductive health services, including HIV testing and treatment, for sex workers and men who have sex with men.

Meanwhile, a slow-burning conflict in Cabo Delgado province, in the country’s northeast, escalated in 2020 and into 2021, with hundreds of thousands of people attacked and left homeless or displaced. In support, we provide medical and mental health care and support health and cholera treatment centers through mobile clinics. In addition, our teams provide water and sanitation support as well as relief items such as hygiene and cooking items for those in displaced people’s camps.

MSF teams are currently responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in Mozambique.

MSF was forced to suspend activities in Mocimboa da Praia and Macomia villages in Cabo Delgado in March and May respectively, due to an upsurge in violence. We relocated our base to Pemba, where many displaced people had gathered in camps, and started delivering general health services and medical care through mobile clinics. Our teams built latrines, supplied water, and supported cholera treatment centers. In December, we sent a team to Montepuez, Cabo Delgado’s second-largest city, to increase access to general and mental health services and water supplies for vulnerable people.

Our program in the capital, Maputo, continues to provide specialized care for patients with advanced HIV, tuberculosis (TB), and other opportunistic infections. Around 2.2 million Mozambicans live with HIV, of whom 36 percent are co-infected with TB.