Gretchen Hemes Health care in the southeastern African nation of Mozambique is abysmal.
CARE understands the importance of including men in family planning education.
It has the highest maternal mortality rate in the world. Diseases such as syphilis, gonorrhea and malaria are epidemic. In one part of the country, more than 20 percent of blood donors are HIV positive. There are hospital buildings with no physicians, where cleaning people give injections. Still, Judith Lane, CARE's reproductive health project manager, gets excited when she talks about the progress she has seen in communities around the province of Nampula in northern Mozambique, about one hundred miles from the Indian Ocean.