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This story was submitted and written by Zacarias Chuquela, District Community Involvement Assistant for Friends in Global Health (FGH), Vanderbilt's affiliate organization working in rural Mozambique.

Vanderbilt University researchers have received a five-year, $1.2 million grant from the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to strengthen research ethics capacity in Mozambique.

Walking through life together - Community HIV ART adherence in rural Mozambique Morrumbala District of Zambézia Province, Mozambique

  APOPO, a social enterprise NGO, trains Detection Rats to detect

The Cochrane Library recently published findings from this project. Learn more about the new protocol: Livestock development programmes for communities in low- and middle-income countries. View project photos taken in Mozambique

VIGH Faculty Member Presentation Infectious Diseases Grand Rounds

Vanderbilt University has recently received a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for more than $7 million to extend HIV/AIDS training, treatment and care in the rural province of Zambézia in Mozambique. The grant, entitled "Avante Zambézia," Portuguese for "Move Forward Zambézia,"  will continue HIV/AIDS efforts from 2007 initiated with funding from a prior CDC grant. The President's Emergency Plan for AID Relief (PEPFAR) funded both grants.