Community health workers (CHWs) provide preventive care and integrated community case management (iCCM) to people with low healthcare access worldwide. CHW programmes have helped reduce mortality in
myriad countries, but little data on malaria supply chain management has been shared. This project evaluat...
Background. Afebrile Plasmodium falciparum infections usually remain undetected and untreated in the community and could potentially contribute to sustaining local malaria transmission in areas aiming for malaria elimination. Methods. Thirty-two men with afebrile P. falciparum infections detected with ra...
O Inquérito de Indicadores de Imunização, Malária e HIV/SIDA (IMASIDA 2015) em Moçambique foi
realizado com o objectivo de determinar a prevalência do HIV e SIDA e malária, bem como outros
indicadores de saúde da mulher e da criança no país. O inquérito fornece dados a nível nacional, provinc...
Background: Intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (IPTp) with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) is recommended by WHO to prevent malaria in African pregnant women. The spread of SP parasite resistance has raised concerns regarding long-term use for IPT. Mefloquine (MQ) is the most promising of avai...
Background: Intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (IPTp) with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) is recommended for malaria prevention in HIV-negative pregnant women, but it is contraindicated in HIV-infected women taking daily cotrimoxazole prophylaxis (CTXp) because of potential added risk of adve...
As infecções pelo Plasmodium falciparum (P.falciparum) e pelo Vírus da Imunodeficiência Humana (HIV) constituem problema de Saúde Pública particularmente na África subsaariana onde as duas infecções têm o seu maior peso. A sobreposição geográfica das duas infecções implica a ocorrência da...
Malaria and severe pneumonia in hospitalized young children may show striking clinical similarities, making differential diagnosis challenging. We investigated ways to increase diagnostic accuracy in patients hospitalized with clinical symptoms compatible with malaria and severe pneumonia, in an area wit...
Contribution to the study of antimalarial resistance and analysis of molecular markers of Plasmodium falciparum and the human host, in Maputo, Mozambique
A malária é de longe a doença parasitária mais importante em Moçambique, constituindo um grave problema de saúde pública no País. Apesar de se considerar que um diagnóstico atempado e um tratamento correcto são os elementos básicos para um programa de controlo da malária bem sucedido, nas úl...
