Arminda Zandamela is a Mozambican expert in HIV prevention.

She studied sociology at Eduardo Modlane University in Maputo and holds a postgraduate degree in human rights from Pontificia Universidade Católica in Rio de Janeiro. She develops HIV prevention programmes for female sex workers and prisoners. 

Arminda Zandamela

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Name
Arminda Zandamela
Title
Expert
Expertise
HIV prevention
Country
Mozambique
City
Maputo
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Maputo's Material Girls

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MAPUTO - In poverty-stricken Mozambique, young women are obliged to sell their bodies to wealthier or white men. A general wisdom with cliché status. But is such a simple analysis correct? What does international research say and what do the women themselves think about their sexual practices and social status? 

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