In public health epidemiology, quasi-experimental methods are widely used to estimate the causal impacts of interventions. In this paper, we demonstrate the contribution the synthetic control method (SCM) can make in evaluating public health interventions, when routine surveillance data are available and...
Mozambique is facing two great adversaries. One is COVID-19 that claimed 132
confirmed deaths and 15,866 infections in its first round since the first case recorded
on 22 March 2020 until 2 December 2020 [1]. The second is the armed conflicts
in the Northern region of Mozambique perpetrated by armed f...
Kenga, Darlenne B;
Gebretsadik, Tebeb;
Simbine, Samuel;
Simbine, Samuel;
Maússe, Fabião E;
Charles, Pedro;
Zaqueu, Ernesto;
Fernando, Hermenegilda F;
Sacarlal, Jahit;
Moon, Troy D.
Background: Bacteremia is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Children infected with HIV present with patterns of bacteremia generally associated with poor prognosis. In Mozambique, data on bacteremia are sparce.
Methods: We conducted an observational study of HIV-infected and HIV-expose...
Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic use,
Bacteremia/epidemiology,
Bacteremia/drug therapy,
Community-Acquired Infections/drug therapy,
Community-Acquired Infections/epidemiology,
Fever/drug therapy,
HIV Infections/epidemiology,
HIV Infections/complications,
HIV Infections/drug therapy,
Microbial Sensitivity Tests,
Staphylococcal Infections/drug therapy,
Mozambique/epidemiology
Thompson, ricardo;
Nelson, robert;
Casavant, isabelle;
Pals, sherri;
Bonzela, juvencio;
Jaramillo, alicia;
Cardoso, judite;
Ujamaa, dawud;
Tamele, stelio;
Chivurre, victor;
Malimane, inacio;
Pathmanathan, ishani;
Heitzinger, kristen;
Wei, stanley;
Couto, Aleny;
Vergara, alfredo.
Introduction: WHO recommends implementing a mix of community and facility testing strategies to diagnose 95% of persons living with HIV (PLHIV). In Mozambique, a country with an estimated 506,000 undiagnosed PLHIV, use of home-based HIV testing services (HBHTS) to help achieve the 95% target has not been...
Em Moçambique vivem cerca de 2 milhões de pessoas com a infeção pelo Vírus de Imunodeficiência Humana, o que corresponde a uma taxa de prevalência de 13.5%. Face ao aumento dos pacientes em tratamento antirretroviral, o modelo clássico, em que o atendimento é mensal, tornou-se insustentável par...
In the city of Maputo, Mozambique, food and water are often sold on the streets. Street water is packaged, distributed, and sold not paying attention to good hygienic practices, and its consumption is often associated with the occurrence of diarrheal diseases. Coincidentally, the increase of diarrheal di...
"End of AIDS" requires ambitious testing, treatment, and adherence benchmarks, like UNAIDS' "90-90-90 by 2020." Mozambique's efforts to improve essential maternal/infant antiretroviral treatment (ART) exposes how austerity-related health system short-falls impede public HIV/AIDS service-delivery and hind...
Desde o seu primeiro reporte na China, em Dezembro de 2019, o SARS-CoV-2 conduziu ao estabe lecimento de diversas medidas visando o controlo da pandemia da COVID-19 em várias nações, entre as quais destacam-se as restrições na circulação de pessoas ao nível doméstico e internacional, o distancia...
Interruption of Services Supply/economics,
SARS-CoV-2/immunology,
Pneumonia, Viral,
Socioeconomic Factors,
Betacoronavirus,
Social Isolation,
Mozambique/epidemiology,
COVID-19/prevention & control,
ChAdOx1 nCoV-19/immunology,
Ad26COVS1/supply & distribution,
Socioeconomic Factors/history
Bone, jeffrey, n;
Magee, laura, a;
Singer, joel;
Nathan, hannah;
Qureshi, rahat, n;
Sacoor, charfudin;
Sevene, esperança;
Shennan, andrew;
Bellad, mrutyunjaya, b;
Goudar, shivaprasad, s;
Mallapur, ashalata, a;
Munguambe, khátia;
Vidler, marianne;
Dadelszen, peter von;
Bhutta, zulfiqar, a.
Background: Blood pressure measurement is a marker of antenatal care quality. In well resourced settings, lower blood pressure cutoffs for hypertension are associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes. We aimed to study the associations between blood pressure thresholds and adverse outcomes and the diagnos...
Traditional healers are commonly utilised throughout sub-Saharan Africa instead of - and in concert with - biomedical facilities. Traditional healers are trusted providers and prominent community members and could be important partners in improving engagement with HIV services in endemic contexts. Our st...
