INFECTIOUS DISEASES
MMI supports local health systems in raising awareness, preventing, and treating HIV, TB, and malaria, particularly focusing on adolescents and young people.
MMI collaborates with health districts and sub-counties to strengthen the training and skills of community health and social agents, as well as to ensure services for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of people living with HIV and/or tuberculosis in the most vulnerable and disadvantaged communities in Inhambane Province, Mozambique, and the slums of Nairobi, Kenya.
On a global scale, the COVID-19 pandemic has slowed progress toward SDG Goal 3 of combating HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. According to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, HIV testing decreased by 41% in 2020, and referral services for diagnosis and treatment decreased by 37% compared to 2019.
Despite this, MMI has strengthened its commitment to and collaboration with local partners by maintaining HIV and TB prevention, diagnosis, referral, and treatment services in Mozambique and Kenya. The organization also ensures support for those who, as a result of COVID-19, have found themselves even more marginalized and deprived of the right to access care. This has been made possible thanks to dedicated project staff and community health and social agents."