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Viewing cable 06MAPUTO237, MOZAMBIQUE: "CHANGE BEGINS WITH US" - PRESIDENT

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06MAPUTO237 2006-02-24 07:15 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Maputo
VZCZCXRO7352
PP RUEHDU RUEHJO RUEHMR
DE RUEHTO #0237/01 0550715
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 240715Z FEB 06
FM AMEMBASSY MAPUTO
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 5031
INFO RUCNSAD/SOUTHERN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY PRIORITY
RUEHPH/CDC ATLANTA GA PRIORITY
RUEAIIA/CIA WASHDC PRIORITY
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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 MAPUTO 000237 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
AF/S - H.TREGER, D.MOZENA 
AF/PD - L.MING, P.ZABRISKIE 
S/GAC - TOBIAS, M.DYBUL,N.SHIEFF, J.PETERSON 
PASS USAID FOR AA/AFR AND AFR/SA 
MCC FOR WATSON, GAULL, AND HARRINGTON 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KHIV TSPL OSCI TBIO KSCA EAID KPAO OIIP MZ
SUBJECT: MOZAMBIQUE: "CHANGE BEGINS WITH US" - PRESIDENT 
GUEBUZA LAUNCHES HISTORIC INITIATIVE TO COMBAT HIV/AIDS 
 
REF: 05 MAPUTO 1562 
 
MAPUTO 00000237  001.2 OF 002 
 
 
1. Summary: President Guebuza launched an historic 
Presidential Initiative to Combat HIV/AIDS with a succession 
of town hall meetings February 16-19 involving civil society 
and the private commercial sector.  Displaying exceptional 
openness and engagement, he chaired each meeting personally 
and encouraged participants to openly debate controversial 
topics.  By engaging citizens from all sectors, Guebuza is 
seeking to find a "Mozambican solution" to rising HIV/AIDS 
prevalence in the country.  President Guebuza's energized and 
innovative approach is exactly the sort of dedicated 
leadership the Mission is encouraging through the Emergency 
Plan.  End Summary. 
 
Including all Citizens 
---------------------- 
 
2. President Guebuza launched his Presidential Initiative by 
meeting with various women,s organizations; according to the 
most recent statistics, women have the highest infection 
rates in the country.  Meetings then followed with youth and 
student groups, representatives from the business sector, and 
religious leaders.  The final meeting was held with community 
leaders, including traditional healers, representing 80 
targeted districts from Mozambique,s 11 provinces.  This 
last, impressive gathering marked the first time in the 
country,s history that community leaders from every corner 
of this nation had assembled together. 
 
Single Greatest Threat to Mozambique 
------------------------------------ 
 
3. Guebuza began each meeting with a brief but impassioned 
message emphasizing the devastation that HIV/AIDS is wreaking 
in Mozambique and imploring participants to understand that 
the pandemic is the single greatest threat to the country,s 
future.  "Police are sick and dying and can,t work; teachers 
and nurses also.  Heads of households have died because of 
the illness, and when they die they leave children.  Who will 
take care of them?  These children grow up never having 
learned to say  Mom, or  Dad.,  They,re left with the 
elderly already too old to work in the fields or provide for 
(their) needs."  He underscored how important it is to stop 
the pandemic now, lest Mozambique become a country of 
children and the elderly, with no workforce left to lead the 
country into the future. 
 
A Home-Grown Solution 
--------------------- 
 
4. Religious leaders emphasized the promotion of abstinence 
and fidelity as essential to stopping the spread of HIV/AIDS. 
 Also stressed was the need to present culturally appropriate 
prevention messages in harmony with Mozambican customs and 
delivered in indigenous languages.  Community leaders pushed 
for a National AIDS Council (CNCS) presence at district and 
provincial levels, with increased involvement in information 
sharing and public awareness campaigns. 
 
Change Begins With Us 
--------------------- 
 
5. President Guebuza presided personally over each meeting, 
listening intently and patiently to participants as they 
shared all sorts of ideas about why the current approach to 
prevention was not sufficient to reduce the spread of the 
disease.  Participants alluded to the "provocative" dress of 
women, the presence of foreigners in Mozambique, to soap 
operas, the youth's lack of respect for themselves and their 
elders, and to a decline in values as causal factors for the 
continued spread of the disease.  Guebuza resisted 
participants' attempts to blame others, saying that since 
HIV/AIDS in Mozambique is transmitted primarily through 
sexual intercourse, this puts the responsibility on both 
parties.  He appealed to participants to assume personal 
responsibility and to change their own attitudes and behavior 
in order to stem the tide of the pandemic, repeating the 
slogan, "Change begins with us." 
 
 
MAPUTO 00000237  002.2 OF 002 
 
 
Comment 
------- 
 
6. The four-day opening of Guebuza,s Presidential Initiative 
to Combat HIV/AIDS was a great success, and clearly places 
the HIV/AIDS pandemic front and center on the national 
agenda.  Throughout the meetings, with rooms always filled to 
capacity, Guebuza broached difficult topics - emphasizing the 
importance of abstinence, fidelity, condom use, and personal 
responsibility as key factors in stemming the spread of the 
disease.  He stressed the need to mobilize people to go for 
voluntary testing and to increase the availability of 
anti-retroviral treatment.  Guebuza spoke passionately about 
how Mozambicans must reclaim the part of their cultural 
heritage that does not allow them to stigmatize or ostracize 
those infected and affected, particularly orphans and 
vulnerable children. 
 
7. Through the Emergency Plan, the USG has been an important 
part of Mozambique's fight, and Guebuza recognizes how 
important the issue is to us.  In separate recent meetings 
with us, Guebuza and the Presidency Secretary-General have 
made a point of discussing Guebuza's leadership on HIV/AIDS, 
and the head of the National AIDS Council urged us to attend 
the events and followed up with us afterwards to exchange 
impressions.  The Ambassador, the USAID Mission Director, and 
other USG employees attended each of the events, showing our 
commitment to encourage Guebuza's dedicated, dynamic 
leadership. 
La Lime