Cyclone Idai in 2019 was one of the worst tropical cyclones recorded in the Southern Hemisphere. The storm caused catastrophic damage and led to a humanitarian crisis in Mozambique. The affected population suffered a cholera epidemic on top of housing and infrastructure damage and loss of life. The housi...
Comorbidities are defined as the simultaneous occurrence of two or more diseases within the same individual. Comorbidities can delay a patient's recovery and increase the costs of treatment. Assessing comorbidities can provide local health care policy-makers with evidence of the most common multi-health ...
Introduction: The use of face masks is one of the preventive measures that Mozambique adopted in order to limit the spread of COVID-19. A study carried out from May 25 to June 6, 2020 found that although many wore masks, incorrect use was observed in 27.5% of the population observed. This data collection...
Holcomb, david a;
Monteiro, vanessa;
Capone, drew;
António, virgílio;
Chiluvane, márcia;
Cumbane, victória;
Ismael, nália;
Knee, jackie;
Kowalsky, erin;
Lai, amanda;
Linden, yarrow;
Mataveia, elly;
Nala, rassul;
Rao, gouthami;
Ribeiro, jorge;
Cumming, oliver;
Viegas, edna;
Brown, joe.
Introduction We previously assessed the effect of an onsite sanitation intervention in informal neighbourhoods of urban Maputo, Mozambique on enteric pathogen detection in children after 2 years of follow-up (Maputo Sanitation (MapSan) trial, ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02362932). We found significant reducti...
Background: Service providers' attitudes toward interventions are essential for adopting and implementing novel interventions into healthcare settings, but evidence of evaluations in the HIV context is still limited. This study is part of the CombinADO cluster randomized trial (ClinicalTrials.gov NCT0493...
Introdução: Considera-se desmame precoce, a interrupção do aleitamento materno antes de a criança completar seis meses de vida, independentemente da causa da decisão estar relacionada a mãe ou a criança. A pesquisa teve como objectivo, averiguar o risco do desmame precoce em trabalhadoras dos sup...
Fuente-Soro, Laura;
Figueroa-Romero, Antía;
Fernández-Luis, Sheila;
Augusto, Orvalho;
López-Varela, Elisa;
Bernardo, Edson;
Saura-Lázaro, Anna;
Vaz, Paula;
Wei, Stanley C;
Kerndt, Peter R;
Nhampossa, Tacilta;
Naniche, Denise.
Background: Non-disclosure of known HIV status by people living with HIV but undergoing HIV testing leads to waste of HIV testing resources and distortion of estimates of HIV indicators. In Mozambique, an estimated one-third of persons who tested positive already knew their HIV-positive status. To our kn...
Sub-Saharan Africa is predicted to have the steepest increase in the prevalence of diabetes in the next 25 years. The latest Mozambican population-based STEPS survey (STEPS 2005) estimated a 2.9% prevalence of diabetes in the adult population aged 25-64 years. We aimed to assess the change in prevalence,...
The risk of a worker becoming ill due to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is related to occupational exposure to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Due to the need to restore work activities in Mozambique, the study was conducted with the aim of identifying the occupational ...
Pope, Stephen;
Augusto, Orvalho;
Fernandes, Quinhas;
Gimbel, Sarah;
Ramiro, Isaías;
Uetela, Dorlim;
Tembe, Stélio;
Kimball, Meredith;
Manaca, Mélia;
Anderson, Leigh;
Chicumbe, Sérgio;
Sherr, Kenneth.
Introduction: The effectiveness of facility-level management is an important determinant of primary health care (PHC) reach and quality; however, the nature of the relationship between facility level management and health system effectiveness lacks sufficient empirical grounding. We describe the associat...
