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In Zambezia province, Mozambique, cervical cancer (CC) screening was introduced to rural communities in 2010. Our study sought to determine whether women would accept screening via pelvic examination and visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) at two clinical sites near the onset of a new CC screening program. A cross-sectional descriptive study of 101 women was undertaken in two rural communities in north-central Mozambique. We assessed a woman's willingness to be screened, knowledge about CC symptoms and treatment, and her recommendations for best methods to deliver information to other women. After the interview, we offered CC screening. Fully 86% of women accepted VIA screening when it was offered, but uptake was 100% at one clinic and only 68% at another. The cause of CC was thought to be associated with promiscuous activity (49%) and curses placed on the woman (42%). All women in one rural Mozambique clinic and two-thirds at a second clinic underwent CC screening. Knowledge about CC screening was significantly associated with uptake, suggesting educational campaigns need to be undertaken. However, educators need to be cautious about linking screening with high-risk behaviors, as women who understood the link trended toward refusing screening.

This paper aims at decoding problems and meanings of situations that frequently occur in socio-educational contexts, while concurrently showing real difficulties to establish intercultural dialogue. It is a critical reflection on fieldwork developed in Mozambique in 2006 by Cardoso Cuale. Cuale was a Primary School teacher who attended a research and assessment training course. This text analyses the work he presented at the end of the training period, and describes cultural conflicts he identified in a school in rural Mozambique. Those conflicts occurred between educational proposals, students, administrative authorities and traditional authorities in consequence of the application of the new Basic Education curriculum, and show difficulties to establish an intercultural dialogue. (Contains 1 note.)

The article examines one study which attempts to map the distribution of mangrove forests along the eastern African coast in Mozambique as well as assesses the changes around the area for a period of 1995-2005. Landsat 5 TM LIG tool was used to map the coastal habitats of mangroves along the area. Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates and other georeferencing tools were also used. It was revealed that a total loss of 21 kilometers of mangroves area had occurred during the decade.