The Unequal Voices project - Vozes Desiguais in Portuguese - examines the politics of accountability in health systems in Brazil and Mozambique, exploring how accountability can be used to deliver better health services for citizens everywhere.
In the last few years, the global community has established a shared and widely accepted vision on the importance and significance of global goals, such as the SDGs and Universal Health Coverage (UHC). This vision has provided an opportunity to agree on what we can collectively aspire to...
9 December 2019
When aiming for dialogue with the community, the health sector in Mozambique refers to those on the other side of the conversation using various names: beneficiary, patient, health user, citizen. These descriptions are loaded with meanings that reflect and express the nature of the power...
16 January 2019
As I explored in my previous blog, the health sector and provision of health services in Mozambique is an uneven playing field. Since 1980 it has been shaped by a range of donors who have strategically positioned themselves according to their political weight and ability to contribute with...
18 December 2018
Likened to the Tower of Babel legend, the Mozambican national health system speaks several languages and pursues a range of different interests, answering to a number of partners and other bilateral and multilateral actors who all have some kind of circumstantial and contextual interest. When...
19 November 2018
IDS Bulletin 49.2
This is the Introduction to multimedia for IDS Bulletin 49.2, 'Accountability for Health Equity: Galvanising a Movement for Universal Health Coverage'. Related Content This article comes from the IDS Bulletin 49.2 (2018) Introduction to Multimedia
1 May 2018