World AIDS Day and a 1st Birthday!
Maputo was hit by edge of a tropical storm last night, with high winds, thunder, lightening and rain, and I thought it might put a damper on the events organised to mark World AIDS Day today. I was very cautious …
Blog Action Day | Climate change and Mozambique
DFID Mozambique has been thinking about how to address the key challenges set out in DFID’s White Paper ‘Building our Common Future’, which was published in July this year. Rita Zacarias, pictured here holding the cover of the soon to …
Progress on the Accra Agenda for Action
In my last blog post, on coordination of work in the health sector in Mozambique, I mentioned evidence emerging from a recent survey (the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey) that shows some of the significant improvements that Mozambique has achieved over …
Queen of health coordination leaves Mozambique
This week we are saying goodbye to Esther Bouma, who has been responsible for coordinating the 26 different development agencies that work with the Ministry of Health here in Mozambique. Esther, pictured here at her desk in the architecturally stunning …
Keith Mackiggan: a new head for DFID Mozambique
I am returning to my blog after a month of intensive work preparing for one of the two big annual policy discussions with the Ministry of Health. The meeting was held last week, on the 16th July, at the hotel …
Raising money to improve health
I have been eagerly awaiting this web link to the report of the Taskforce on Innovative International Financing for Health Systems. One of the major outcomes of the UN Millennium Development Goal Call to Action, high level event held in …
Mozambique signs its Global Fund application
The week started with a bang, with the official signing of Mozambique's application for round 9 funding from the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria. The meeting room of UNAIDS in the leafy Sommerschield Bairo of Maputo is …
A solution to Mozambique's funding gap?
I came across a very interesting article titled UN to bridge funding gap on health in the Financial Times last week (free registration required), which discusses a UN plan to launch a new initiative to raise billions of dollars in addition …
Mozambique prepares its Global Fund application
The latest update from Mozambique is that we are in the midst of an intensive period of activity supporting the Government of Mozambique to develop its round 9 application to the Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria (GFATM). I …
Mozambique joins the debate on Task Shifting
Sorry, no time for a detailed posting this week, as I am engaged in an online discussion on an issue which is really important for Mozambique. This is just a quick posting to link you in, if you are interested, …
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