![Patients – not all HIV positive – in the waiting area of Munhava health centre on 09 April, the first day of the full re-opening of MSF’s HIV program after Cyclone Idai. The MSF-supported Munhava health centre covers one of Beira’s broadest catchment areas where there are some 8,000 patients with HIV.](/sites/default/files/styles/card_half/public/images/Beira_HIV_MSF268109.jpg?itok=mqLULbDg)
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Mozambique
In Beira, we offer sexual and reproductive health services, including HIV testing and treatment, for sex workers and men who have sex with men. In Nampula, MSF teams provide preventive measures and treatment for selected vector-borne, water-borne and neglected tropical diseases under a Planetary Health lens.
Meanwhile, a slow-burning conflict in Cabo Delgado province, in the country’s northeast, continued through 2022, 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 centres 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.
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Our Activities in Mozambique in 2022
Data and information from the International Activity Report 2022.
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By the end of 2022, nearly one million people were internally displaced in Cabo Delgado due to fighting between non-state armed groups and government forces, in a conflict that has been running since 2017. From June, as the violence moved southwards, thousands of families were displaced within days. Simultaneously, thousands of others opted to return to their homes, despite the lack of services and destruction caused by the conflict.
Since 2019, we have been responding to the increasing needs of displaced and host communities in the province, particularly in areas that receive little or no assistance. Our activities include general healthcare, mental health and psychosocial support, distribution of relief items, health promotion, and water, hygiene and sanitation services.
In 2022, we worked in Macomia, Mocimboa da Praia, Palma and Mueda districts, and sent mobile teams to Meluco, Muidumbe and Nangade, to provide healthcare and distribute relief items. Meanwhile, we handed over our activities in Metuge to the Ministry of Health.
In Beira, Sofala province, we run a sexual and reproductive healthcare programme that includes safe abortion care, HIV testing, and treatment for sexual and gender-based violence for stigmatised groups, such as sex workers and men who have sex with men. We also support the implementation of national guidelines on HIV treatment for these groups of people, and provide care for advanced HIV at Beira central hospital and 10 health centres. In 2022, we helped to rehabilitate health centres damaged in tropical storm Chalane and cyclone Eloise.
In Nampula, MSF started to work with the Ministry of Health to improve preventive and curative care for vector-borne and neglected tropical diseases and surveillance and preparedness for emergencies such as cholera outbreaks and natural disasters.
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![Patients – not all HIV positive – in the waiting area of Munhava health centre on 09 April, the first day of the full re-opening of MSF’s HIV program after Cyclone Idai. The MSF-supported Munhava health centre covers one of Beira’s broadest catchment areas where there are some 8,000 patients with HIV.](/sites/default/files/styles/card_half/public/images/Beira_HIV_MSF268109.jpg?itok=mqLULbDg)
![José Manuel, MSF lab technician, conducts tests to check patient's viral load during the first days after the 09 April resumption of the HIV-related activities in the MSF-supported Munhava health centre in Beira after Cyclone Idai hit the city.](/sites/default/files/styles/card_half/public/images/Beira_HIV_MSF268122.jpg?itok=kz-OoThs)
“There is hope and a life ahead”
![Detail of the methadone syrup and single-use cups with which beneficiaries of the heroin substitution programme take their dosage. The dosage is set by a doctor at the Alto-Mae health centre.](/sites/default/files/styles/card_half/public/images/Mozambique_PWUD_MSB104796.jpg?itok=6Oi4nk8e)
"I was alive, but felt dead"
![Detail of the methadone syrup and single-use cups with which beneficiaries of the heroin substitution programme take their dosage. The dosage is set by a doctor at the Alto-Mae health centre.](/sites/default/files/styles/card_half/public/images/Mozambique_PWD_MSB104795.jpg?itok=lDBvPzHt)
Reducing the harms of drug use with the help of the local community
![During the training, the participants received a hands on demonstration and practiced how to look for water by using water jetting techniques, meaning they create deep holes with high-pressure water jets, a common practice when there’s a need for water when responding to an emergency.](/sites/default/files/styles/image_mobile/public/images/mozambique_emergency_preparedness_training_MSB94854_.jpg?itok=DV3Zui3q)
From reactive to proactive: how MSF in Beira is stepping up its disaster response preparations
![An MSF staff member measures a child’s middle-upper arm circumference to check for malnutrition in Meluco, in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, 19 February 2021.](/sites/default/files/styles/image_mobile/public/images/Mozambique_mental_health_MSB57451_0.jpg?itok=qB5rIe8O)