Surveillance systems are important in detecting changes in disease patterns and can act as early warning systems for emerging disease outbreaks. We hypothesized that analysis of data from existing global influenza surveillance networks early in the COVID-19 pandemic could identify outliers in influenza-n...
Nhacolo, Ariel;
Jamisse, Edgar;
Augusto, Orvalho;
Matsena, Teodomino;
Hunguana, Aura;
Mandomato, Inácio;
Arnaldo, Carlos;
Munguambe, Khátia;
Machete, Eusébio;
Saúte, Francisco;
Alonso, Pedro;
Savour, Charfudin.
The Manhic¸a Health Research Centre [Centro de Investigac¸~ao em Sau´de de Manhic¸a (CISM)] has been running a Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) since 1996, in the district of Manhic¸a, 80 km North of Maputo City (the capital of Mozambique). As indicated in the original cohort profil...
Since the announcement of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in January 30th 2020, 68 countries reported to the World Health Organization that they were experiencing disruptions in malaria diagnosis and treatment. This situation had the potential to lead to delays in diagnosis and treatment, whi...
Mozambique has a generalized HIV epidemic, among pregnant women, HIV prevalence is estimated at 15.8% with a vertical transmission rate of 14%, more than double global targets. We evaluate electronic national health information system (SIS-MA) performance to verify if the data flow procedures met its obj...
HIV Infections/prevention & control,
Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical/prevention & control,
Pregnancy Complications, Infectious/virology,
Feline Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/prevention & control,
Mozambique,
Feline Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/transmission,
HIV Infections/transmission,
Population Surveillance,
Pregnancy,
Surveys and Questionnaires
Women attending antenatal care (ANC) are a generally healthy, easy-access population, contributing valuable data for infectious disease surveillance at the community level. ANC-based malaria surveillance would provide a routine measure of the malaria burden in pregnancy, which countries lack, whilst pote...
Mocubi, Ana O;
Cebola, Bonifácio;
Muloliwa, Artur;
Sebastião, Frederico;
Sitefane, Samuel J;
Manafe, Naisa;
Gobe, Igor;
Lumbandali, Norbert;
Keates, Ashley;
Stickland, Nerolie;
Chan, Yi-Kai;
Stewart, Simon.
There is a paucity of primary data to understand the overall pattern of disease and injuries
as well as related health-service utilization in resource-poor countries in Africa. To generate reliable and robust data describing the pattern of emergency presentations attributable to communicable disease (CD)...
Baltazar, Cynthia Semá;
Horth, Roberta;
Boothe, Makini;
Sathane, Isabel;
Young, Peter;
Langa, Denise Chitsondzo;
Condula, Manuel;
Ricardo, Helena;
Dengo Baloi, Liliana;
Cummings, Beverley;
Schaad, Nicolas;
Gouveia, Lídia;
Teodoro, Eugénia;
Raymond, Henry F.
Few countries in sub-Saharan Africa know the magnitude of their HIV epidemic among people who inject drugs (PWID). This was the first study in Mozambique to measure prevalence of HIV, HBV, and HCV, and to assess demographic characteristics and risk behaviors in this key population.
Methods: We used resp...
Cities/epidemiology,
Cross-Sectional Studies,
Drug Users/statistics & numerical data,
Epidemics,
HIV Infections/epidemiology,
Hepatitis B,
Hepatitis C,
Mozambique,
Population Surveillance/methods,
Prevalence,
Risk-Taking,
Seroepidemiologic Studies,
Sexual Behavior/statistics & numerical data,
Substance Abuse, Intravenous,
Surveys and Questionnaires,
Urban Population
Baltazar, Cynthia Semá;
Langa , José Paulo;
Baloi , Liliana Dengo;
Wood, Richard;
Ouedraogo, Issaka;
Lafourcade, Berthe-Marie Njanpop;
Inguane, Dorteia;
Chitio, Jucunu Elias;
Mhlanga, Themba;
Gujral, Lorna;
Gessner, Bradford D;
Munier, Aline;
Mengel, Martin A.
Background: Mozambique suffers recurrent annual cholera outbreaks especially during the rainy season between October to March. The African Cholera Surveillance Network (Africhol) was implemented in Mozambique in 2011 to generate accurate detailed surveillance data to support appropriate interventions for...
Background
An immunization campaign using a two-dose regimen of Shanchol™ oral cholera vaccine (OCV) was implemented in the six most vulnerable neighborhoods of Nampula city, Mozambique. Of the 1292 suspected cholera cases reported in the city from September 2015 to July 2016, 66% of them originated in...
HIV stigma continues to be a major challenge to addressing HIV/AIDS in various countries in sub-Saharan Africa, including Mozambique. This paper explores the multidimensional nature of HIV stigma through the thematic analysis of five qualitative studies conducted in high HIV prevalence provinces in Mozam...
