HIV-AIDS Prevention and Care Program, Xai Xai, Gaza Province, Mozambique

Harvard School of Public Health, in collaboration with the Mozambique Ministry of Health, the Real Medicine Foundation, and the African Millennium Foundation, proposes a pilot 18-month program to provide a comprehensive HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment program in rural Mozambique, for the health district of Xai Xai. A country already plagued by the aftershocks of civil war, floods, and droughts, its weak healthcare infrastructure, and in particular its shortage of healthcare workers, is currently unable to reach its geographically distant rural population