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Preparing for Disease X: Ensuring Vaccine Equity for Pregnant Women in Future Pandemics

Front. med. (Lausanne); 9 (893292), 2022
Disease X represents a yet unknown human pathogen which has potential to cause a serious international epidemic or pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has illustrated that despite being at increased risk of severe disease compared with the general population, pregnant women were left behind in the developmen...

Avalição da eficácia do tratamento profilático com isoniazida na incidência da tuberculose activa em pacientes hiv positivos menores de 15 anos no período de 2021 a 2017 em moçambique
Evaluation of the efficacy of prophylactic treatment with isoniazid on the incidence of active tuberculosis in HIV-positive patients under 15 years of age in the period from 2021 to 2017 in mozambique

Introdução: A Tuberculose (TB) continua sendo um grande problema de saúde pública em Moçambique, constando na lista das principais causas de morte nas nossas unidades sanitárias. A Organização Mundial de Saúde (OMS) recomenda o tratamento profiláctico com isoniazida (TPI) em pessoas infectadas ...

Neighbors' use of water and sanitation facilities can affect children's health: a cohort study in Mozambique using a spatial approach

BMC public health (Online); 22 (983), 2022
Background: Impact evaluation of most water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions in health are user-centered. However, recent research discussed WASH herd protection - community WASH coverage could protect neighboring households. We evaluated the effect of water and sanitation used in the househo...

Etiology of meningitis among adults in three quaternary hospitals in Mozambique, 2016-2017: The role of HIV

PLos ONE; 17 (5), 2022
Antecedentes: A meningite continua a ser uma causa importante de morbimortalidade em adultos na África Subsaariana. Os dados sobre a investigação etiológica da meningite em adultos em Moçambique são limitados e a maioria dos estudos foram realizados no sul de Moçambique. A identificação da etiol...

Human-Centered Design for Public Health Innovation: Codesigning a Multicomponent Intervention to Support Youth Across the HIV Care Continuum in Mozambique

Glob. health sci. pract; 10 (22), 2022
Adolescents and young people represent a growing proportion of people living with HIV (AYAHIV), and there is an urgent need to design, implement, and test interventions that retain AYAHIV in care. Using a human-centered design (HCD) approach, we codesigned CombinADO, an intervention to promote HIV viral ...

Cohort Profile Update: Manhiça Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) of the Manhiça Health Research Centre (CISM)

Int. j. epidemiol; 17 (4), 2022
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...

Papel da Liderança na Motivação, Desempenho e Produtividade dos Funcionários do Serviço Distrital de Saúde, Mulher e Acção Social de Nicoadala, Província da Zambézia entre 2019 e 2020
The Role of Leadership in the Motivation, Performance and Productivity of Employees of the Service of Nicoadala, Zambezia Province between 2019 and 2020. 2020

Actualmente as organizações passam por diversas mudanças que levam as instituições a terem uma liderança que renova suas estratégias de motivação em seu cotidiano. O estudo intitulado “ papel da liderança na motivação, desempenho e produtividade dos funcionários do Serviço Distrital de Sa...

Global structural stability and the role of cooperation in mutualistic systems
Global structural stability and the role of cooperation in mutualistic systems

PLos ONE; 17 (4), 2022
Dynamical systems on graphs allow to describe multiple phenomena from different areas of Science. In particular, many complex systems in Ecology are studied by this approach. In this paper we analize the mathematical framework for the study of the structural stability of each stationary point, feasible o...

Nucleic acid testing identifies high prevalence of blood borne viruses among approved blood donors in Mozambique

PLos ONE; 17 (4), 2022
Background: Although blood transfusion is an intervention that saves lives, it poses significant risks to the blood receivers, including the transmission of bloodborne pathogens. We aimed at determining the prevalence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Hepatitis B virus (HBV), and Hepatitis C virus (...

The effects of text reminders on the use of family planning services: evidence from a randomised controlled trial in urban Mozambique

BMJ glob. health; 4 (7), 2022
Introduction: Reduction of unmet need for contraception is associated with enhanced health outcomes. We conducted a randomised controlled trial in Mozambique analysing the effects of text messages encouraging use of family planning services. Methods: This trial was conducted within a sample of women ser...