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Revista médica de moçambique
Medical magazine of mozambique
Revista médica de moçambique; 10 (), 2009
An in depth analysis of the knowledge, attitude and practices towards the use of Insecticide Treated Nets (ITNs) in the nicoadala district in mozambique
Malaria in Mozambique is one of the ten leading causes of morbidity and mortality. Malaria is responsible for up to 44% of all outpatient consultations, 57% of pediatric admissions and a leading cause of low birth weight in newborns. Consistent use of insecticide treated bed nets (ITNs) for malaria preve...
Malária em Moçambique: perspectivas leigas numa região endémica
Severe malaria and concomitant bacteraemia in children admitted to a rural Mozambican hospital
Trop. med. int. health; 14 (9), 2009
Objectives: To describe the prevalence, aetiology and prognostic implications of coexisting invasive bacterial disease in children admitted with severe malaria in a rural Mozambican Hospital. Methods: Retrospective study of data systematically collected from June 2003 to May 2007 in a rural Mozambican ho...
Cost-effectiveness of malaria intermittent preventive treatment in infants (IPTi) in Mozambique and the United Republic of Tanzania
Bull. W.H.O. (Online); 87 (2), 2009
Objective: To estimate the cost-effectiveness of malaria intermittent preventive treatment in infants (IPTi) using sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP). Methods: In two previous IPTi trials in Ifakara (United Republic of Tanzania) and Manhiça (Mozambique), SP was administered three times to infants before 9 m...
Situação de Sistema de Informação do Programa Nacional de Luta contra o Paludismo em Guiné-Bissau: Estudo de caso
O primeiro plano nacional de desenvolvimento sanitário (PNDS) da Guiné-Bissau, para o quinqénio 1998-2002, tinha como missão, contribuir para a melhoria da situação sócio-económica e do bem-estar da população guineense, por intermédio do reforço e desenvolvimento do sistema nacional de saúde...
Manual de formação para o manejo de casos de malária
A malária continua a ser o principal desafio para a saúde pública e para o desenvolvimento sustentável em Moçambique. Apesar dos esforços empreendidos pelo MISAU e Parceiros na luta contra Malária, esta doença para além do impacto directo na saúde da população, ainda exerce um peso socioecon...
A country-wide malaria survey in Mozambique. II. Malaria attributable proportion of fever and establishment of malaria case definition in children across different epidemiological settings
Malar. j. (Online); 8 (74), 2009
Background: Protection against clinical malaria episodes is acquired slowly after frequent exposure to malaria parasites. This is reflected by a decrease with increasing age in both parasite density and incidence of clinical episodes. In many settings of stable malaria transmission, the presence...
Malaria/epidemiology, Temperature, Sensitivity and Specificity, Blood/diagnostic imaging, Precautionary Principle, Prevalence, Plasmodium falciparum, Parasites/genetics, Microscopy, Logistic Models, Malaria/blood, Confidence Intervals, Surveys and Questionnaires/statistics & numerical data, Infections, Age Groups, Fever/diagnosis, Cost of Illness, 32511/methods, Fingers/growth & development, Mozambique
Spatio-seasonal modeling of the incidence rate of malaria in Mozambique
Malar. j. (Online); 7 (228), 2008
Background: The objective was to study the seasonal effect on the spatial distribution of the incidence of malaria in children under 10 years old living in the Manhiça district, Mozambique.
Methods: The data of the clinical malaria incidence were obtained from a study of two cohorts of children followed...