Tele-Medicine
MOZAMBIQUE INTEGRATED NATIONAL TELEMEDICINE NETWORK
BACKGROUND :
HIV/AIDS is the pandemic with enormous challenges for its control at present in Mozambique. Mozambique is within the most affected group of countries in the world. The national prevalence rate of HIV in 2005 was 13,6%. For 2006 the national prevalence was estimated at 14%.
Within a short period of time HIV/AIDS – often obscured by or in conjunction with other life threatening diseases, notably Tuberculoses - has become one of the key causes of mortality in Mozambique.
In 1998 the Mozambican Government adopted a multi-sectoral approach with the aim of involving each sector of the society in the fight against AIDS, at the level of its areas of influence. In the context of this multi-sectoral approach a Technical Group was set up in 1999 for support in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Currently there are eight institutions that are driving the national fight against HIV/AIDS: The Ministry of Health, Ministry of Planning and Finance, Statistics National Institute, Centre for the Study of Populations (UEM), Faculty of Medicine
(UEM), Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Ministry of Education and the National Council for the Fight Against HIV/AIDS. This group has, as its main mandate, the elaboration and publication of data on the prevalence projections and demographic impact of HIV/AIDS in Mozambique
Reducing absolute poverty in Mozambique has been a key Government objective ever since the first days of independence. In August 2001 the Council of Ministers of Mozambique developed a Strategy Plan called the Action Plan for the Reduction of Absolute Poverty (PARPA 2001-2005). The specific objective of this Action Plan is to reduce the incidence of absolute poverty in Mozambique from 70% in 1997 to less than 60% by 2005 and less than 50% by the end of this decade.
The Mozambican National Strategic Plan to Fight HIV/AIDS represents one of the most important components of the Action Plan for the Reduction of Absolute Poverty.
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