Objective To investigate vaccine hesitancy leading to underimmunization and a measles outbreak in Rwanda and to develop a conceptual, community-level model of behavioural factors. Methods Local immunization systems in two Rwandan communities (one recently experienced a measles outbreak) were explored usi...
Background: Studies exploring HIV knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of individuals
with severe mental illness (SMI) have suggested their poorer knowledge about HIV. In
KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) province, South Africa (SA), the epicentre of the country’s HIV
epidemic, improving KAP is essential for red...
Os profissionais de saúde (PS), como profissionais da linha de frente, têm maior risco de infecção pela COVID-19. Foram adoptadas várias medidas para controlar a rápida propagação da epidemia da COVID-19 em Moçambique. A adesão dos (PS) a essas medidas é influenciada por seus conhecimentos, at...
Knowledge,
COVID-19/prevention & control,
Health Personnel/statistics & numerical data,
COVID-19,
Trust,
Infections,
Health Personnel,
Risk,
Disease Prevention,
Health Personnel,
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice,
Epidemics,
Masks,
Work
COVID-19 is a highly communicable viral respiratory infectious disease with potential life-threatening capabilities. As caregivers, the healthcare practitioners are at risk of contracting disease.Aim: To explore the knowledge, risk perception, and attitudes of Nigerian dentists toward COVID-19.Material a...
Background: In a background of renewed calls for malaria eradication, several endemic countries in sub-Saharan Africa are contemplating malaria elimination nationally or sub-nationally. In Mozambique, a strategy to eliminate malaria in the south is underway in the context of low endemicity levels and cro...
Nhampossa, Tacilta;
Mandomando, Inacio;
Acacio, Sozinho;
Nhalungo, Delino;
Sacoor, Charfudin;
Nhacolo, Ariel;
Macete, Eusebio;
Nhabanga, Arnaldo;
Quintó, Llorenç;
Kotloff, Karen;
Levine, Myron M;
Nasrin, Dilruba;
Farag, Tamer;
Bassat, Quique;
Alonso, Pedro.
In the predominantly rural Manhiça district, in southern Mozambique, diarrhea is one of the leading causes of death among children under 5 years. Caretakers randomly selected from the Demographic Surveillance Database were invited to participate in a community-based survey on use of healthcare services ...
Caregivers/psychology,
Diarrhea, Infantile/epidemiology,
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice,
Health Surveys,
Patient Acceptance of Health Care/psychology,
Patient Acceptance of Health Care/statistics & numerical data,
Prevalence,
Primary Health Care/statistics & numerical data,
Risk Factors,
Rural Population,
Severity of Illness Index,
Mozambique/epidemiology
Stigma has been implicated in poor outcomes of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) care. Reducing stigma is important for HIV prevention and long-term treatment success. Although stigma reduction interventions are conducted in Mozambique, little is known about the...
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/epidemiology,
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/psychology,
Anti-HIV Agents/therapeutic use,
Consensus,
HIV Seropositivity/psychology,
HIV Seropositivity/epidemiology,
Social Stigma,
Health Services Needs and Demand,
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice,
Health Personnel,
Mozambique/epidemiology
HIV prevalence rates in Zambézia Province were estimated to be 12.6% in 2009. A number of educational campaigns have been aimed at improving HIV transmission and prevention knowledge among community members in an effort to reduce infection rates. These campaigns have also encouraged people to seek healt...
Anti-HIV Agents/therapeutic use,
Mozambique/epidemiology,
Africa,
Residence Characteristics,
Delivery of Health Care,
HIV Infections/epidemiology,
HIV Infections/psychology,
HIV Infections/therapy,
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice,
Medicine, African Traditional,
Patient Acceptance of Health Care/psychology,
Patient Acceptance of Health Care/statistics & numerical data,
Rural Population/statistics & numerical data,
Sexual Partners/psychology
Objective: To describe attitudes to the expanded programme on immunization (EPI) and intermittent preventive treatment in infants (IPTi), and perceptions of the relationship between them. In particular, whether the introduction of IPTi negatively affects community attitudes to, or use of, EPI; or, conver...
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice,
Caregivers/psychology,
Delivery of Health Care/methods,
Delivery of Health Care/organization & administration,
Hematologic Tests/psychology,
Immunization/psychology,
Malaria Vaccines/therapeutic use,
Immunization Programs/organization & administration,
Malaria, Falciparum/psychology,
Patient Acceptance of Health Care/psychology,
Mozambique/epidemiology
