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MOZAMBIQUE: Tourism, beaches and sex - a recipe for HIV

With its white sand and sunny blue skies, Miramar Beach in the port city of Beira, Mozambique, has all the right ingredients to draw tourists from all over the world. But that is not all this idyllic coastline attracts. "The beach is fertile ground for the spread of the [HI] virus, because so many people's paths cross there," said Victoria Machava, who works for the Beira municipal health department. Miramar Beach is in Sofala Bay, close to the main Indian Ocean shipping routes and the...

MOZAMBIQUE: Attitudes to HIV are changing in jail

Sex between prison inmates is a reality at Manica Provincial Prison, in central Mozambique, but because same-sex relations are taboo, and conjugal visits are not allowed, many HIV-positive inmates say they were infected before they were sent to the largest prison in Manica Province. The reality is often different. "Based on the analyses we carried out, we found that some inmates were indeed infected before being locked up, but the majority was infected inside the jail," said Elsa Thaibo,...

Mozambique: GPOBA Supports Water Services for Poor Households in Five Cities

The World Bank, acting as an administrator for the Global Partnership on Output-Based Aid (GPOBA), today signed a grant agreement with Mozambique’s Water Supply Assets and Investment Fund (FIPAG) for US$6 million to increase piped-water access for poor households living in five cities: Beira, Maputo, Nampula, Pemba, and Quelimane.  Under this grant, private service providers operating under lease contracts from FIPAG will connect an estimated 468,000 poor people to piped water supply...