Antiviral treatment for pregnant women
We brought some hope to the fight against HIV in Africa, where the virus effects the 25 % of the population. This percentage considerably rises if we consider only the mother-child pairs, reaching 35 %. We donated 8500 euros to help the Dream project to buy the medicines for the antiretroviral therapy, which can help treating the mothers and saving the babies. This money could guarantee the treatments for 14 mother-child pairs in the centre of Matola, in Mozambique.
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Situation in the country
Mozambique is a Eastern African country and it’s capital is Maputo. It’s a former Portuguese colony and it has been independent since 1975.
The independence movement started in 1962 led to the creation of the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO), which conquered the capital in 1974 and soon after that proclaimed the independence of the country, that starting from that moment came into line with the USSR.
In the early Eighties RENAMO (The Mozambican National Resistance, a liberation movement against communism) started a series of attacks against several facilities of the country (including railways, schools and hospitals), dragging Mozambique in a civil war that caused about a million victims between 1981 and 1994, most of whom were civilians.
Today Mozambique still is in a very critic economic situation, caused by the flight of foreign capital during the communist period and by the heavy consequences of the civil war.