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3.7M
people with access to a Matimba health advocate
No one should have to choose between their dignity and their health.
The Challenge
A health system is only as strong as people’s ability to use it — with dignity, and with full knowledge of what they’re entitled to receive.
No medicine, no technology, no trained provider can deliver results if people don't feel safe or respected enough to seek and stay in care — if they're mistreated, if their privacy is violated, or if they're charged illegal fees. And many don't know what care they're entitled to. What you don't know, you can't ask for. In under-resourced systems, this gap is invisible but deadly.
What We Do
We partner with communities in Mozambique so people know their health rights and feel safe claiming them, while supporting health workers to deliver dignified care. And we work with government to ensure national policy is shaped by what patients and providers experience in health facilities, so improvements benefit people far beyond our direct reach.
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Frontline Health Justice
Our health advocates are rooted in communities and health facilities, working to raise awareness of health rights, resolve barriers to care, and build collective power with women and marginalized groups to shape the health system. They train and mentor health workers — from doctors and nurses to pharmacy staff and receptionists — to deliver dignified, patient-centered care.
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Health System Transformation
Health advocates document every case they handle, generating real-time evidence rooted in patients' lived experiences. We partner with government to turn that evidence into policy — co-drafting the country's first strategy to combat illegal charges in clinics and hospitals, and playing a central role in shaping humanized childbirth standards now protecting women in 492 health facilities.
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Health Justice at Scale
We are the accountability and trust layer: without it, even the largest investments in healthcare fall short. We're scaling this model with civil society partners across the country through training, mentorship, and collaboration, and laying the groundwork to extend it across sub-Saharan Africa. Dignity and accountability aren't optional extras: they're what make everything else work.
Impact Since 2013
82,497
barriers to care resolved
72% of those engaged are women
1,136
partner health advocates trained and mentored by Matimba
+26%
increase in facility births at Matimba-supported clinics
vs. 12% elsewhere
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“In the past there was no privacy. People stopped coming to the hospital. Many were dying. Now they know there are dignified conditions… and they come.”
Avelino, patient living with HIV
Hear Avelino's Story
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