Right to Health: Limits and Possibilities of Access to theTreatment of People with Tuberculosis

Objective: To analyze the limits and possibilities that interfere in the right to health of people affected by tuberculosis in the municipality of Nampula, Mozambique, Africa. Methods: This is a qualitative study that uses the theoretical and methodological framework of the French Matrix Discourse Analysis. Results: 22 subjects were interviewed who had been on tuberculosis treatment for more than two months. From the symbolic material for analysis, three discursive blocks emerged: “Weaknesses in health services: a denial of the right to health”; “Social determinants and their relationship with the denial of the right to health”; “The family as a support structure for the right to health”. Final Considerations: The analyzes show that the right to health has not yet been fully realized in Mozambique, due to weaknesses in the health system and social determinants such as the lack of transportation, food, decent housing and employment for the group affected by the disease, the that impels government action in these areas for the realization of the right to health.