Mozambique Canada Maternal Health Project Team

COVID-19 restrictions prevent international and national travel. Like so many other groups, the Mozambique Canada Maternal Health Project held its most recent management team meeting online. This international meeting was to discuss plans for the year. It was a great way for the Mozambican and Canadians to share experiences and ideas.

The team was able to speak to each other about the reality of the work on the ground. The increase of COVID-19 in Mozambique has required the project to adjust our plans to integrate prevention of the virus into our maternal and sexual health activities. We have also adapted our ways of working to keep our team safe, as well as those we work with. Our community engagement work has been quite beneficial in developing community response to the impact of COVID 19. Finally, we have extended our scope to include ways we can support the Inhambane provincial health directorate, our project partner, with its efforts to deal with the pandemic. Not an easy task. Many other international projects have actually stopped functioning. But our experienced and dedicated team has renewed and revised its plans and activities to meet the challenge!

In the top row, from right to left, are Nazeem Muhajarine, Cristina Rus and Ruta Massunguine; in the next row are Don Kossick, Denise Kouri, Lidia Monjane and  Jessie Forsyth; and in the bottom row are Argentina Munguambe, Antonio Tanda, and Horacio Mandevo.

Welcome!

Thank you for your interest in the Mozambique-Canada Maternal Health Project. This project came to an end on June 30, 2024. You may continue to the site to see our final update and find out what we did, but please keep in mind that it is an archived site and will no longer be updated.

We now have a new project**: Sexual and Reproductive Health for Young Women in Inhambane**. We will be activating its website soon.

The new project builds on the old one, but with some changes to adapt to new realities. We will continue to seek improved, sexual, reproductive and maternal health and rights for women, now focusing more on adolescent girls and younger women, within the context of model communities of care, taking into consideration their families and their communities. We will continue to partner with community health communities (now 30 compared to 20) within selected districts in Inhambane (now 6 rather than 5). We will also continue to partner with the provincial health directorate (DPSI) to improve infrastructural and human resources in the health system. And we will continue to carry out helpful research and disseminate information.

Let us know if you would like to be notified when our new site is up!