Counselling for HIV+ patients at the project office at CCM Molumbo 

AMETRAMO is the Portuguese acronym for Association of Traditional Healers of Mozambique, who share with the project a belief in the healing powers of medicinal herbs and plants. This photo is a meeting of the healers with Medi-Plantas project staff.

Medicinal plants dug from the original gardens, being distributed to workers of some of the 30 new gardens being set up this month.

Each HIV+ worker responsible for a garden also receives gardening tools and seeds of various nutritious vegetables as well.

Most families with 1 or more HIV+ members are even poorer than the average rural Mozambican subsistence farm family, because they have 1 or more workers weakened by HIV and unable to be as productive on the farm. So they may live in a house of grass only, unlike the more substantial mud-brick construction seen in the photo of the traditional healers.

Each community where there are medicinal plant gardens also has an activist group of volunteers trained to teach and promote nutrition for PWAs and everyone.

Another of the activist groups, receiving seeds, tools and plants.

Another distribution of seeds and tools, showing watering cans.

Manteiga Pulaisse the project manager and Rosa Jorge one of the 2 community health workers employed in the project, in one of the original Molumbo medicinal plants gardens

Manteiga delivering medical plant product to a HIV+ patient

Rosa doing a home visit of one of the 59 HIV+ patients connected with the project. This is a big part of her work.