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17.03.2021
Peer-to-peer prevention
SolidarMed is involved in the field of sexual and reproductive health in several project countries. The peer educator approach is one of the approaches used in this context.
Barbara Kruspan has lived in the province of Cabo Delgado for almost 30 years and has been working for SolidarMed for almost four years. Mozambique has become her home. She used to live in Mocímboa da Praia - where Islamist-motivated terrorists are now carrying out their attacks. She knows the situation very well.
Digital Information and Consultation Platform in Zimbabwe
SolidarMed Zimbabwe and the Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC) developped a Digital Information and Consultation Platform for the use of the population to get to get any information about Covid-19. It is currently being utilised by Health Care Workers in Masvingo.
Lesotho and South Africa have been particularly badly hit by Covid-19 and the new virus variant, with South Africa accounting for almost half of the coronavirus deaths on the continent. The situation in the landlocked country of Lesotho is also tense: There has been an extreme increase in corona cases there since mid-December. In the beginning of January, hospitals as well as the mortuaries were overloaded.
More than half a million people internally displaced in Mozambique
More than half a million people are currently trying to escape the terrorist attacks in Mozambique's northernmost province of Cabo Delgado. They are leaving their belongings behind and heading south in uncertainty, to an area where the local population already lacks the most basic necessities.