Mozambique: Junior researchers receive funding at HCM

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Mozambique: Junior researchers receive funding at HCM

12:29 CAT | 11 Mar 2025

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Four health professionals, at the beginning of their careers in the field of research at the Maputo Central Hospital (HCM), benefited a few days ago from funding in the order of 10 thousand dollars (around 640 thousand meticais) for the development of research in the area of cancer linked to HIV.

The fund, granted by the HCM Clinical Research and Training Center, was granted to resident doctors in different areas of knowledge, selected through a competition with the aim of promoting scientific research, encouraging young researchers and prioritizing research in this health unit.

A note from HCM indicates that the program is the result of a project that aims to create an alliance between the country, Brazil and the United States of America, in the development of new technologies for the prevention and diagnosis of cancer in patients with HIV.

Started last year, the project will last five years and includes a training component. During this period, 16 projects will be funded, four per year for the same number of researchers, notably resident doctors, master’s students or doctors from different areas.

Dinis Jamba, one of the beneficiaries, explained that his research deals with the treatment of cervical cancer in HIV-positive and HIV-negative women and aims to establish a comparative basis between the two groups, in order to measure the response to chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatment, through magnetic resonance ultrasound.

“The idea is to understand the factors that influence the response, and if there is any difference I should try to see what can be done, assuming it is weak in HIV-positive women,” explained the resident doctor who is in his third year of radiology and imaging.

Source: Noticias