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CDC Global HIV/AIDS Activities - Mozambique

HIV/AIDS in Mozambique

Mozambique has a severe, generalized HIV/AIDS epidemic. HIV prevalence among men and women aged 15-49 is estimated at 16%. Mozambique has high rates of high-risk behavior and high rates of other factors such as other sexually transmitted infections that contribute to HIV transmission. Co-epidemics of tuberculosis (TB) and malaria exacerbate the impact of HIV/AIDS.

CDC HIV/AIDS Activities in Mozambique
Prevention:

  • Providing technical assistance and funding to strengthen national blood transfusion services provided through a network of over 100 blood banks.
  • Implementing a standards-based approach for medical infection prevention and control to 30 major referral hospitals in 2007.

Care:

  • Supporting implementation of wrap-around services including nutrition education, birth spacing, postnatal care, and malaria prophylaxis and treatment.

Treatment:

  • Providing support to 202 prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission sites.
  • Supporting counseling and testing for pregnant women as well as prophylaxis to HIV-infected women to reduce the risk of transmission during pregnancy and delivery.
  • Supporting capacity for assessment of HIV-infected women and if eligible, referral to nearby treatment programs for themselves and their HIV-positive children and partners.
  • Supporting more than 28,185 patients in receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) as of March 2007.
  • Strengthening TB infection control activities, improving TB laboratory services, and helping with the introduction of an electronic TB register.

Laboratory, Strategic Information, and Other Capacity Building:

  • Improving and expanding laboratory capacity at 29 sites supporting implementation of the ART program.
  • Facilitating training for technicians to manage and supervise the CD4, T-cell, and HIV serology quality assurance programs.
  • Supporting the development of the strategic plans for the national laboratory network and for pre- and in-service training of laboratory technicians.
  •  Supporting the implementation of a laboratory system for early infant HIV diagnosis for HIV through dried blood spot PCR technique.
  • Helping national efforts to introduce ART patient viral-load testing capacity.
  • Providing assistance for a rapid drug resistance assessment.
  • Supporting comprehensive strategic information efforts including:
    • Helping to improve the availability, accessibility, quality, and use of service-delivery data.
    • Conducting HIV surveillance and behavioral surveys.
    • Designing and improving systems to support routine program monitoring.
    • Strengthening and expanding the health management information systems infrastructure.
  • Providing extensive support in human capacity development including:
    • Strengthening pre-service training for medical technicians.
    • Assessing training resources on HIV/AIDS.
    • Educating ancillary health workers regarding on-the-job biosafety hazards.
    • Developing workplace safety policy for the Ministry of Health.
    • Supporting management training.
    • Developing training information management systems for in-service training activities and helping with the development of clinical mentoring.
  • Providing technical support to the Ministry of Health for coordination, policy oversight, and updating of national guidelines and training materials.

 

 

Last modified: October 23, 2008
Last reviewed: October 23, 2008
Content Source:
Global AIDS Program (GAP)
National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention