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MANGOCHI ICEIDA PARTNERSHIP IN PUBLIC HEALTH – PROGRAMME DOCUMENT 2012-2016
NGOs working in Mangochi include (the list is not exhaustive):
- CADECOM: Community based HIV/AIDS projects in Mulibwanji and Kapire. Malaria control,
including village health clinics, bed nets, indoor spraying and health education in Mase;
- MSH: Community based projects in family planning, HIV/AIDS and nutrition. Used volunteers
and HSAs, promoted and provided contraceptives and built incinerators for safe waste
disposal. (They have now left);
- SEED Malawi: HIV/AIDS and home based care projects in TA Chowe, Namavi, Mponda,
Nankumba and Chimwala. Support the Namwera AIDS Coordinating Committee in Jalasi,
Bwananyambi and Katuli, YAGAO in TA Mponda;
- Cordaid (The Netherlands). This is a Catholic Organisation for Relief and Development Aid,
member of Cidse and Caritas International. They work with the Safe Motherhood
Programme;
- DIGNITAS. Involved in ant-retroviral treatment (ART) covering the whole district;
- TB CARE 2 (Project Hope). Tuberculosis activities in the district;
- The Malawian Red Cross and the Icelandic Red Cross. Community based health and first aid
pilot project in TA Chowe.
Ongoing or planned research activities in the district include (the list is not exhaustive):
- The Mangochi College of Medicine is doing a study on HIV/AIDS/STIs in fishing communities,
including both social and biomedical components. Results are expected at the end of 2011.
They are also doing a baseline study on nutrition in pregnant mothers and children. They
have established research facilities in the district hospital and in various health centres
throughout the district.
- A Malawian PhD student at the UK Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine is studying maternal
mortality. She started preparations in Mangochi in October 2011 and first results should
become available at the end of 2012 or beginning 2013. Her study is sponsored by ICEIDA.
3. Previous ICEIDA support to the Health Sector in Mangochi
ICEIDA has for the past decade supported TA Nankumba, one of the nine TAs in Mangochi. The
assistance can be divided into three phases (Baseline Study ICEIDA 2009). In Phase-1 (2000 to 2003)
there was a focus on infrastructure strengthening: constructions at Monkey Bay Community
Hospital—which is located 45 minutes’ drive from the district hospital—and investment in
communication with peripheral facilities. In Phase-2 (2004 to 2008) the focus was on strengthening
services in MBCH, Nankumba Health Centre, outreach clinics and community based services. In this
period ICEIDA also assumed some of the running costs (fuel, drugs, and such). The Project Document
for Phase-3, for the period 2009 to 2011, stipulates further construction at MBCH and outreach
facilities in its catchment area including upgrading of Chilonga dispensary to health centre level with
a maternity ward, construction of a health post at Kanyenga and construction of staff houses. This
project came to an end in 2011. During the years ICEIDA has also funded training and scholarships for
health personnel, and purchased bicycles, motorbikes and vehicles. Finally, small research projects
have been funded (results not published).
In the past three years ICEIDA’s input in the Monkey Bay project has been: USD 500 thousand in
2009, USD 550 thousand in 2010, and USD 750 thousand in 2011. In 2011 funding primarily went to
pay for construction at MBCH, Nankumba and Chilonga. On average, annual ICEIDA support has been
of the order of USD 600 thousand which is equivalent to USD 4.9 per capita (using a population
projection of 122,878 in TA Nankumba for 2009/2010).
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