Health Justice at Scale

Alongside our direct work, we share our approach with civil society partners across the country through training, mentorship, and collaboration. In 2019, we partnered with the Global Fund to design and launch its human rights program in Mozambique — creating comprehensive training materials and building the capacity of recipient organizations to support community health workers and grassroots health advocates. Since then, we’ve mentored 83 community-based organizations (CBOs) and trained over 1,100 new health advocates and paralegals across the country, extending our reach far beyond what we could achieve alone.

We believe this model travels. The barriers patients face — disrespect, abuse, lack of information, and rights that exist on paper but never reach patients — are not unique to Mozambique. Neither are the solutions.

After 13 years of building and refining our approach, our next step is to bring it to organizations across sub-Saharan Africa: sharing what works, building a collective evidence base, and growing a movement for quality, dignified care.

For this model to reach its potential, it must be built into national and global strategies and funding frameworks, recognized as essential infrastructure rather than an add-on. Matimba brings the patient perspective into the rooms where funding decisions are made, making the case to governments and donors that dignity and accountability aren’t just moral imperatives: they’re essential to the health outcomes these investments are designed to deliver.

A rights-based approach amplifies the impact of everything else: every clinician, every medicine, every dollar spent. And it works.

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