Mozambique has been battered by years of conflict, colonial rule and famine. More than half the population of Mozambique still lives in absolute poverty and the country is one of the poorest in the world. The disease pattern in the country is strongly related to poverty issues and malnutrition, with life expectancy at 51 years in 2015. Currently, 1.7 million of Mozambique’s 20 million people are living with HIV.
PSI/Mozambique was established in 1994 to assist the Ministry of Health scale up HIV prevention. PSI/Mozambique added malaria prevention to its portfolio in 2000, introduced a safe water program in 2004 and launched its family planning franchise in 2014.
PSI/Mozambique’s memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Interior and with many other NGOs help to expand the reach of communications campaigns and product distribution to priority populations , particularly in rural areas with weak commercial infrastructure.
PSI/Mozambique estimates that in 2015, its products and services helped avert 485,727 DALYs, including, by health area:
- 32,048 Malaria DALYs
- 349,105 HIV DALYs
- 97,591 FP DALYs
- 6,982 WASH DALYs
PSI/Mozambique’s family planning programs also provided 228,180 couple-years of protection.
HIV/AIDS
PSI/Mozambique has promoted and sold the Jeito condom in the Mozambican market since 1994. As the first condom brand in Mozambique, Jeito quickly became synonymous with ‘condom’. Over time, the condom market in Mozambique matured considerably, and Jeito now faces competition from several other brands.
In response to these changes and based on consumer research findings, PSI/Mozambique repositioned the Jeito brand in 2012. The new Jeito family is composed of: J1, J2, J3, J4, and J5. Learn about the savvy approach they took to regain market share and increase condom use. Jeito’s popularity, volumes, and positioning as a ‘cool’ brand continues to play a vital role in ensuring condom access and reinforcing correct, consistent usage messages to compliment the public sector efforts.
Water, Sanitation and Nutrition
PSI/Mozambique launched a safe water program with its own funding in 2004 to help reduce the incidence of diarrheal diseases, particularly in children under five. To date, the program has sold or distributed more than 9 million bottles of Certeza, each of which treats enough water for a family of five for one month. PSI worked with a local bleach manufacturer to improve its quality control sufficiently and produce Certeza locally.
Certeza is sold at a subsidized price in markets and distributed in emergency situations (e.g., cholera outbreaks and floods). PSI/Mozambique also partners with local and international NGOs to distribute Certeza and provide PSI’s water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) messaging.
VitaMais is the brand of micronutrient powder created by PSI to improve the lives of children under five by providing them with means to fortify their diets.
In 2015, PSI began a partnership with GAIN and Save the Children to make this product available through the commercial network, Troca Aki, for mothers of children under five who participated in a peer outreach session or went to the health facility.
Family Planning
Given the low use of family planning methods in Mozambique and high maternal mortality rates, social franchising offers a cost-effective opportunity to increase access to affordable health and family planning services. PSI/Mozambique manages Tem Mais (which means ‘we have more’), a network of nurses and community health promoters that offer family planning counseling and products beyond the public sector. Each Tem Mais clinic is staffed with a family planning nurse who provides a range of basic health services, including a comprehensive overview of family planning options. To generate demand for the services that the social franchises offer, PSI deploys community health promoters who are affiliated with specific Tem Mais clinics. The promoters are health agents who have been selected, trained, and working in the communities from which they come. They are the backbone of health programs at the community level, and work to generate demand and provide basic, essential information, services, and referrals to higher-level health providers. The promoters visit communities and provide introductory family planning information and, for those interested, a voucher for a counseling session with a Tem Mais nurse.
Donors
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands
- Maverick Collective
- U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
- United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Partners
- Mozambique Ministry of Health through the National Directorate for Disease Control and Health Promotion and the Provincial and District Health Directorates
- National AIDS Council
- Mozambique Ministry of Interior
- International and local NGOs
- Ignite 2018 Annual Report
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