HIV/AIDS Treatment and Care in Mozambique: An Exploration of Transnational Interventions

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HIV/AIDS Treatment and Care in Mozambique An
Exploration of Transnational Interventions

• Courtney Crumpler
• Health Grand Challenges Initiative
• The Future of Global AIDS Treatment The Social
  Determinants of Health
• Coordinated by Prof. João Biehl

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Objectives

• Independent research project Brazil-Mozambique
  cooperation around HIV/AIDS
• Africare internship

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Context

• Research group The Future of Global AIDS
  Treatment and the Social Determinants of Health
• Field Site Maputo, Mozambique

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Research

• Goal Investigate cooperation between Brazil and
  Mozambique around HIV/AIDS care and treatment
• Methods series of interviews with public health
  officials working in Brazilian NGOs, Mozambican
  government and US foreign service.
• Within internship Use Monitoring Evaluation
  systems as an entry-point to inform critique of
  US and other international aid delivery practices

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Brazil-Mozambique Cooperation

• What partnerships are being established?
• What projects are being undertaken?
• Results of these efforts?
• Motivations?

Visit to pharmaceutical factory funded by
Brazilian corporation
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Measuring Mozambique

• How and where do numbers travel? Who collects
  them? For what purpose?
• Communication channels and feedback loops within
  and outside organizations?
• Ways the motivations, levels of training and
  resource/time constraints influence outcomes

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Thank you!