Success Stories

Dreams Can Come True

FGH Communications Team (in-country)
May 11, 2017
By Rui Esmael Dreams Can Come True: Over a decade on combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) with two HIV-uninfected daughters

The Male Engagement Strategy Supports a Husband’s Participation in his Family’s Healthcare

FGH Communications Team (in-country)
May 11, 2017
Teletónio Samuel Rangeiro is a married 23 year old who lives with his wife, Hernésia Tomé, 22, in Seresse, a rural community outside of Zambézia’s provincial capital of Quelimane. When Teletónio’s wife became pregnant, he surprised many people in his community by accompanying his wife to all of her antenatal care (ANC) visits at the Maquival health facility and continued doing so after the delivery of their healthy twins—an unusual practice for men in this community.

VIDEO: Medical Equipment Arrives in Mozambique

FGH Communications Team (in-country)
May 11, 2017
Medical supplies
Last year, the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH) and Friends in Global Health (FGH) worked together to collect a container full of donated medical supplies and had it shipped to the Provincial Health Department located in the Zambézia Province of Mozambique. In October 2016, the container arrived in the port of Quelimane. Together with Project C.U.R.E.

Traditional Birth Attendants Encourage Institutional Deliveries in Zambézia Province

FGH Communications Team (in-country)
February 3, 2017
In the rich farmlands of Birua Village, in Furquia Locality, Namacurra District, Zambézia Province, lives 52 year old Paulina Raposo. She has been a traditional birth attendant for 36 years. “I learned to be a traditional birth attendant at the hospital in Macuse [in Zambézia] in 1980. It was war time and there was a need for people who were prepared to help in the communities. I was one of the chosen ones,” she told us. Feligência José and her daughter Dilma.

For mother and daughter, life is not as it used to be: It is much better!

FGH Communications Team (in-country)
May 4, 2016
</a> This video was produced by Rui Esmael. Amélia Sebastião and her seven year old daughter, Juliana, are healthy and making long-term plans for their lives. Amélia is a Peer Educator assisting patients in her community and Juliana wants to be a District Administrator when she grows up. But this was not the case just a few years ago.
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