Archive for 'HIV/AIDS'
It's been a busy week! The big events kicked off in the Minister of Health’s meeting room on the 8th floor of the Ministry yesterday afternoon in a meeting called by Minister Paulo Ivo Garrido to discuss this week's visit of the Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFATM). It was my second [...]
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 on my drive to the office through the deep puddles as last week in similar conditions [...]
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 right next to the DFID office in downtown Maputo. Over a hundred and fifty people [...]
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 was in a meeting of Mozambique's Country Coordination Mechanism (CCM) held at the UNAIDS office [...]
The lively and very tighly packed (both in terms of agenda and physical space!) joint meeting between the Ministry of Health and development partners held in Maputo on 3rd April closed with a very clear statement of solidarity with the Ministry of Health from development partners.
I have attached a picture so you can see us all squeezed in to the [...]
We were all crammed in to the 9th floor meeting room of the Ministry of Health on Friday 3rd April, for one of the twice yearly big meetings between the Minister of Health ( Paulo Ivo Garrido ), and development partners. It was a lively meeting, with an eloquent speech from the Minister and a useful round of [...]
For those of you following the Pope and condoms discussion, I am attaching a very helpful briefing note from UNAIDS, which sets out the UN position.
For those with no time to read the attachment, a key message is:
"Condoms are an essential part of combination prevention which includes among other elements: access to information about HIV, [...]
Friends in the NGO community here in Mozambique have been applauding the recent statement by Margaret J. Pollack, the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of the State, in the US delegation statement to the United Nations Commission on Population and Development.
Acknowledging that only 5 years remain in both the ICPD and Millennium Development Goal timeframes, she [...]
I thought better of getting out my digital camera to take a picture to illustrate this blog post! However, I have found a really good website.
The Champions for an HIV-FREE generation visited Mozambique recently. My friend, Mauricio Cysne, the head of UNAIDS here in Mozambique accompanied the team and thought the team's visit had a [...]
I am showing my age now by making reference to this old British sitcom in the title of this blog, but it does sum up the events of today quite well! It was 41 degrees centigrade when we arrived in Chibuto, on the third day of the annual evaluation visit to Gaza Province. The fans [...]
