Mozambique

This package was produced as part of the training component of UNESCO's Media Development Project in Mozambique. The overall objective of the UNESCO project is to strengthen the human and technical capacity of the media - especially the independent and private media - in Mozambique. This is part of the process of enhancing democracy, good governance and human rights in the country while promoting professionalism and editorial independence. The training package therefore addresses only one aspect of this process. Its overall objective is to ensure the furtherance of more gender sensitive media reporting at a time of great social change in Mozambique and other parts of southern Africa.

More than one-sixth of Mozambique's 9 000 teachers are dying of HIV/Aids each year, lowering the quality of education and jeopardising future development, a government official told Reuters on Tuesday.Education and Culture Minister Aires Aly said in an interview that the pandemic had become a national emergency, eroding a critical human resource that is key to the poor Southern African nation's economic development. "We are losing 17% of our 9 000 teachers each year, which means we are talking of 1 360 workers lost to HIV/Aids, and the disease is spreading very fast at national level", he said.

This resource provides relevant knowledge to facilitate mainstreaming gender-responsive approaches into reproductive health programmes, and the inclusion of specific aspects of gender inequality and disadvantage into national policy frameworks. It focuses primarily on health, particularly reproductive health; on HIV/AIDS; and on violence against women as it relates to health services.