Background Mozambique is one of the countries with the deadly implementation gaps in the tuberculosis (TB) care and services delivery. In-hospital delays in TB diagnosis and treatment, transmission and mortality still persist, in part, due to poor-quality of TB care cascade. Objective We aimed to assess,...
National Health Programs/trends,
Quality of Health Care/trends,
Tuberculosis/epidemiology,
Attitude of Health Personnel,
Equipment and Supplies, Hospital/trends,
Health Facilities,
Health Personnel/psychology,
Hospitals,
Mozambique/epidemiology,
Tuberculosis/diagnosis
Tuberculosis (TB) and malnutrition are important causes of morbidity and mortality in children in the developing world.
Aims
To assess the prevalence of pulmonary TB in severely malnourished children and evaluate TB detection using the urine lipoarabinomannan antigen assay (TB-LAM).
Methods
A retrospec...
HIV Infections,
Lipopolysaccharides,
Mycobacterium tuberculosis,
Sensitivity and Specificity,
Severe Acute Malnutrition,
Tuberculosis,
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary/diagnosis,
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary/complications,
Mozambique/epidemiology,
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary/epidemiology
In Mozambique, the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) was implemented in 1979 with the objective of reducing child mortality and morbidity through the provision of immunization services. This study aims to describe the characteristics of the EPI and review the available information related to immuniz...
Na estrutura do Ministério da Saúde, o
Programa Nacional de Controlo de ITS-HIV/SIDA
(PNC ITS-HIV/SIDA) representa a unidade
técnica que assegura à gestão dos serviços de
saúde relacionados ao HIV, sendo sua missão
coordenar, regulamentar e prestar cuidados e
tratamento às pessoas vivendo ...
HIV,
HIV Testing/trends,
Mozambique/epidemiology,
Patients/statistics & numerical data,
Sexually Transmitted Diseases,
Sexually Transmitted Diseases/drug therapy,
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/epidemiology,
Sexually Transmitted Diseases/diagnosis,
Pregnant Women/education,
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome,
Health Information Systems,
Delivery of Health Care,
Anti-Retroviral Agents/therapeutic use
A disseminação global do SARS-CoV-2 decorre a um ritmo veloz. Menos de um ano após a sua detecção pela primeira vez na China, já foram notificadas mais de 32 milhões de pessoas infectadas em cerca de 200 países e territórios. O impacto da COVID-19, a doença causada pelo SARS-CoV-2 em humanos, j...
Epidemiological transition theory aims to describe changes in epidemiological scenarios at the global and national level. The assumption is the shift from infectious diseases (IDs) to non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Some authors argue that this theory failed to describe epidemiology in subSaharan Afric...
Examinamos os fatores associados ao rastreamento do vírus da imunodeficiência humana (HIV) e desenvolvemos um mapa de superfície de prevalência de rastreamento de HIV usando técnicas de interpolação espacial para identificar as áreas geográficas com as maiores e menores taxas de rastreamento de ...
Os enterovírus (EV) são vírus de transmissão predominantemente entérica, presentes em todas as partes do mundo e são agentes etiológicos de infecções que variam de casos assintomáticos a casos de gastroenterite aguda (GA) e infecções no sistema nervoso central. Devido aos diferentes rumos que...
Sewage,
Diarrhea, Infantile/epidemiology,
Dysentery/diagnosis,
Diarrhea, Infantile/drug therapy,
Enterovirus/immunology,
Mozambique/epidemiology,
Feces/parasitology,
Environmental Health Surveillance,
Environmental Monitoring,
Gastroenteritis,
Africa South of the Sahara
Chongo, Patrina;
Sitoe, Nádia;
Viegas, Sofia;
Pinto, Isabel;
Macave, Admiro;
Sitoe, Fernando;
Vubil, Adolfo;
Mabunda, Nédio;
Meggi, Bindiya;
Gudo, Eduardo, S;
Jani, Ilesh, V.
Medical care in Mozambique is mostly provided through the national health service of the Ministry of Health. All primary healthcare and HIV-related services are provided free of charge. There are over 1500 public sector health facilities in Mozambique and most of these are primary healthcare centres. Alt...
Serologic Tests/methods,
HIV/isolation & purification,
HIV Infections/epidemiology,
Mozambique/epidemiology,
d0113200,
d0000732960,
d0062680,
Laboratories/supply & distribution,
d0159950,
d0093130,
Point-of-Care Testing/standards
Pimenta, Fabiana C;
Moiane, Benild;
Lessa, Fernanda C;
Venero, Anne-Kathryn L;
Moura, Iaci;
Larson, Shanda;
Massora, Sergio;
Chaúque, Alberto;
Tembe, Nelson;
Mucavele, Helio;
Verani, Jennifer R;
Whitney, Cynthia G;
Sigaúque, Betuel;
Carvalho, Maria G. S.
Background: Dried blood spots (DBS) have been proposed as potentially tool for detecting invasive bacterial diseases. Methods: We evaluated the use of DBS for S. pneumoniae and H. influenzae detection among children in Mozambique. Blood for DBS and nasopharyngeal (NP) swabs were collected from children w...
