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The present report is an expanded and critical study of the Health The National Health Service (SNS) covers only about conditions and process of integrating the ICTs into the various 40% of the population and the level and quality of the services sectors of social and economic development in Mozambique, in provided are still modest. [...] Although funding and the shortage of the context of the contribution they can make in the struggle skilled staff are part of the problem, archaic and inadequate against absolute poverty and, as a result, in the promotion of communication procedures inside the system worsen the levels human development. [...] Furthermore, there has been little exploration In recognising the existence of a framework of national policies of the potential of ICTs to overcome the weaknesses of the SNS, and strategies appropriate for integrating ICTs as tools to drive the namely physical distances and the scarcity of medical and auxil- struggle against absolute poverty, the report also notes the preva- iary staff, through r. [...] within the context of the MDGs, to support the African For each of the MDGs, there are targets and spe- continent is one of the premises of the New cific indicators that allow better assessment of per- Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), a formance by each country in the context of the development programme of the African Union. [...] in 2002, sets out the principles, objectives and methodologies for implementing the ICT Policy, the Creating a favourable environment projects in the six priority areas and their budgets, The government’s vision is for the constant alignment the mechanisms for mobilizing funds, and for moni- of the ICTs, in the broad sense, with national devel- toring and evaluating implementation.