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Background
Across sub-Saharan Africa, hypertension and type 2 diabetes rank among the foremost causes of illness and death. Mozambique's most recent national survey identified that nearly a third of adults now live with elevated blood pressure and one in twenty live with diabetes. Noncommunicable diseases already generate roughly half of all emergency and resuscitation demand in the country's largest cities. Health systems designed around acute and infectious illness find it difficult to sustain the ongoing, longitudinal care that chronic conditions demand. The Expanded Chronic Care Patient Professional Partnership Model offered us a lens for examining how patients' lived experience, therapeutic education and authentic partnership with providers might be integrated into everyday chronic care. Drawing on this framework, we set out to investigate and contrast how patients, providers and community activists experience facility-based versus home-based care for hypertension and diabetes in Mozambique.
Methods
Between June and July 2026, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 67 participants, comprising 51 patients, 10 health providers and 6 community activists, across two contrasting districts, rural Nhamatanda in Sofala province and peri-urban Marracuene in Maputo province. Thematic analysis was structured around the model's three domains, namely the experience of care and health mediation, therapeutic patient education and learning pathways, and patient professional partnership.
Results
Patients encountered genuine obstacles across all three domains. Their experience of care was influenced by the expense and unpredictability of transport, recurrent medicine shortages, uneven health knowledge and, underlying much of this, structural food insecurity. Therapeutic education was constrained by limited health literacy, the absence of educational materials in local languages, and a persistent disparity between what dietary guidance asked of patients and what their daily circumstances actually permitted. The partnership between patients and professionals emerged most strongly within home-based care, where patients characterised the team as family and reported greater trust, more privacy and steadier continuity of care. Community activists played a vital bridging role throughout, and peer support groups were more firmly established in Marracuene than in Nhamatanda.
Conclusion
Home-based care under the PANACEIA programme deepened patients' own comprehension of their condition, created space for contextualised therapeutic education, and forged partnerships that reconfigure the traditional relationship between patient and provider. The framework proved a valuable lens for considering how chronic care in Mozambique might be reinforced. Recurring obstacles, among them medicine shortages, food insecurity, the absence of materials in local languages and uncertainty over the programme's future, nonetheless need to be tackled if this model is to scale and endure.

Background Across sub-Saharan Africa, hypertension and type 2 diabetes rank among the foremost causes of illness and death. Mozambique's most recent national survey identified that nearly a third of adults now live with elevated blood pressure and one in twenty live with diabetes. Noncommunicable diseases already generate roughly half of all emergency and resuscitation demand in the country's largest cities. Health systems designed around acute and infectious illness find it difficult to sustain the ongoing, longitudinal care that chronic conditions demand. The Expanded Chronic Care Patient Professional Partnership Model offered us a lens for examining how patients' lived experience, therapeutic education and authentic partnership with providers might be integrated into everyday chronic care. Drawing on this framework, we set out to investigate and contrast how patients, providers and community activists experience facility-based versus home-based care for hypertension and diabetes in Mozambique. Methods Between June and July 2026, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 67 participants, comprising 51 patients, 10 health providers and 6 community activists, across two contrasting districts, rural Nhamatanda in Sofala province and peri-urban Marracuene in Maputo province. Thematic analysis was structured around the model's three domains, namely the experience of care and health mediation, therapeutic patient education and learning pathways, and patient professional partnership. Results Patients encountered genuine obstacles across all three domains. Their experience of care was influenced by the expense and unpredictability of transport, recurrent medicine shortages, uneven health knowledge and, underlying much of this, structural food insecurity. Therapeutic education was constrained by limited health literacy, the absence of educational materials in local languages, and a persistent disparity between what dietary guidance asked of patients and what their daily circumstances actually permitted. The partnership between patients and professionals emerged most strongly within home-based care, where patients characterised the team as family and reported greater trust, more privacy and steadier continuity of care. Community activists played a vital bridging role throughout, and peer support groups were more firmly established in Marracuene than in Nhamatanda. Conclusion Home-based care under the PANACEIA programme deepened patients' own comprehension of their condition, created space for contextualised therapeutic education, and forged partnerships that reconfigure the traditional relationship between patient and provider. The framework proved a valuable lens for considering how chronic care in Mozambique might be reinforced. Recurring obstacles, among them medicine shortages, food insecurity, the absence of materials in local languages and uncertainty over the programme's future, nonetheless need to be tackled if this model is to scale and endure.