{"id":242459,"date":"2026-08-28T08:35:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T06:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-uptake-of-injectable-prep-has-been-high-at-health-facilities\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T08:35:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T06:35:15","slug":"mozambique-uptake-of-injectable-prep-has-been-high-at-health-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-uptake-of-injectable-prep-has-been-high-at-health-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Uptake of Injectable Prep Has Been High At Health Facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Maputo \u2014 Alice de Abreu, the Councilor for Health in Maputo Municipality, has revealed that the uptake of long-acting injectable PrEP against HIV has been high across the 27 health facilities in Mozambique&#8217;s capital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">A PrEP is a pre-exposure prophylaxis which uses anti-retrovirals to prevent the multiplication of the HIV virus inside the human body. This is capable of reducing the risk of infections by more than 99 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"60\">According to Abreu, who was speaking on Wednesday, at Xipamanine Health&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608270434.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maputo \u2014 Alice de Abreu, the Councilor for Health in Maputo Municipality, has revealed that the uptake of long-acting injectable PrEP against HIV has been high across the 27 health facilities in Mozambique&#8217;s capital. A PrEP is a pre-exposure prophylaxis which uses anti-retrovirals to prevent the multiplication of the HIV virus inside the human body. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":242460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,9883,5731,6184,43996,4704,682,257,22806,254,30797],"class_list":["post-242459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-facilities","tag-health","tag-high","tag-injectable","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-prep","tag-south-africa-today","tag-uptake"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}