Abdul Majid Noorjehan

Clinical Head for the DREAM Programme in Mozambique

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(Maputo, MOZAMBIQUE)

She is a Physician living and working in Maputo. She was clinical director of the city's Central Hospital. In 2002 she started working with the DREAM Programme of the Community of Sant'Egidio, which introduced free antiretroviral AIDS treatment for the first time in Mozambique. Today, the Programme operates in 10 African countries. She specialised in Italy to help set up a public socio-medical home care service for patients without resources. She is now the Clinical Director of the network of Centres for the prevention of the transmission of the virus from mother to child that DREAM has opened over the last 20 years in Mozambique.