Activities
Promotion of alternative methods to the use of mercury for artisanal gold mining
Artisanal mining
We work to promote alternative methods to the use of mercury
Mercury used in artisanal gold mining accounts for 37% of emissions released into the environment, causing a global public health problem. At medicusmundi we work to promote alternative methods to the use of mercury to reduce damage to individual, community and environmental health.
Other activities
- New project strengthens social activism and the defense of right to health in Maputo
- Project to fight Gender Based Violence (GBV) continues for two more years
- Training action encourages Namuno miners to replace mercury with a safer method
- Plans for the Prevention and Reduction of Malnutrition launched in Namuno, Ancuabe and Montepuez
- What challenges can a health system under construction, like Mozambique's, pose?
- Right to Health: a right that goes far beyond access to medical services and medicines
- Social Determinants of Health (SDH): the Key to Creating Healthier Societies
- New steps are taken in Cabo Delgado to reduce the negative impact of artisanal mining
- Project on Universal Health Coverage and Defense of the Right to Health advances in Cabo Delgado
- Health: a Human Right that has become a consumer good
- Training promotes a less Polluting and Dangerous Gold Extraction
- Awareness Campaigns start in Cabo Delgado
- Study on Environment and Artisanal Mining presented in Pemba
- Constitution of Maputo Municipal Commission of Social Determinants of Health
- 1st International Conference on the Social Determinants of Health
- Film series
- Improve health coverage
- Planning and Management
- Training of health personnel
- PHC Alliance
- Capacity building of Local Authorities
- Community intervention
- Promote PHC training among all future health professionals
- Creation and implementation of a new research agenda in PHC and SDH.
- Public awareness campaigns to promote the right to health
- Formalization of artisanal mining organizations
- Film course on social documentary