AFENET conducts support supervision of the Mozambique Science Project pilot

Updated on April 4, 2025
by AFENET

A team comprised of AFENET staff, Dr. Kevin Mugenyi (3rd right) and Ms. Beatrice Masika (center), Tete Provincial Surveillance Officer Dr. Aniceto Jacinto Massua (front, right), and Tete Province EOC Coordinator Dr. Benilde Uache (second, left) and Mapping Technician Leonardo da Silva Jaquets of the Community Mapping Project, enroute to accessing isolated hard to reach communities harboring zero dose children on the banks of the Zambezi river in Moatize district, identified under the CDC-AFENET supported project in Tete Province, Mozambique — A team comprised of AFENET staff, Dr. Kevin Mugenyi (3rd right) and Ms. Beatrice Masika (center), Tete Provincial Surveillance Officer Dr. Aniceto Jacinto Massua (front, right), and Tete Province EOC Coordinator Dr. Benilde Uache (second, left) and Mapping Technician Leonardo da Silva Jaquets of the Community Mapping Project, enroute to accessing isolated hard to reach communities harboring zero dose children on the banks of the Zambezi river in Moatize district, identified under the AFENET supported project in Tete Province, Mozambique

From 25 – 26 March 2025, a team of AFENET secretariat staff and Tete Province Senior Public Health personnel conducted a field exercise, setting out to reach isolated communities harboring zero dose and under immunized children, that had been mapped under the Community Mapping Project being implemented by AFENET.

This project aims to apply the use of geographic information system (GIS) mapping to identify, and reach missed communities experiencing major barriers to immunization, to reach Zero Dose and under immunized children. The pilot project will contribute to strengthening microplanning for routine immunization and Supplemental Immunization Activities (SIAs) and aims to improve immunization coverage and ultimately make a contribution to reducing morbidity and mortality due to vaccine preventable diseases (VPDs) in Mozambique.