In a sea of conservatism, Mozambique stands out as a liberal haven for progressive policies on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). It is a land of forward-thinking politics but suffers from shortcomings in implementation of the same. Mozambique is one of the poorest countries in the world, ranked...
AMODEFA, the IPPF Member Association in Mozambique, is the largest non-governmental provider of sexual and reproductive health care in Mozambique, and one of the lead organisations advocating for sexual and reproductive health and rights. It works in a challenging context, where 1 in 2 girls are pregnant or have had...
AMODEFA – the IPPF member in Mozambique - has been running for 30 years. “This last decade should have been the phase of sustainability. This phase has been pushed back and we feel we are going back 10 years. The demand has been placed, but now, we can’t provide the...
Tropical Cyclone Idai hit Mozambique on March 14 leaving hundreds dead, thousands of homes destroyed and almost two million people impacted. Weeks after Idai hit, thousands of people remain in internal displacement camps. Cyclone Idai is considered one of the most devastating tropical cyclones to have hit Africa to date,...
While sitting in a session on sexuality education at the Armando Emilio Guebuza school in Maputo we noticed how openly the students were talking about topics that are taboo in other spaces. Their teacher, Vasco Nhamussa, said that “students want to talk about these topics, they are no longer taboo....