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Adaptation of WHO's generic tuberculosis patient cost instrument for a longitudinal study in Africa

Global health action; 14 (1), 2021
The WHO developed a generic 'TB patient cost survey' tool and a standardized approach to assess the direct and indirect costs of TB incurred by patients and their households, estimate the proportion of patients experiencing catastrophic costs, and measure the impact of interventions to reduce patient cos...

Tuberculose extrapulmonar disseminada: mal de pott, ganglionar e abcesso epidural medular
Disseminated extrapulmonary tuberculosis: pott's disease, lymph node and epidural medullary abscess

A Tuberculose Extrapulmonar é uma infecção crónica causada pelo Mycobacterium tuberculosis, que afecta qualquer órgão fora da árvore brônquica–pulmonar, sendo mais incidente em países de baixa renda como Moçambique devido a prevalência aumentada de imunodeficiência grave por enfermidades e ...

National TB program shortages as potential factor for poor-quality TB care cascade: healthcare workers’ perspective from Beira, Mozambique

PLos ONE; 15 (10), 2020
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,...

Lipoarabinomannan Antigen Assay (TB-LAM) for Diagnosing Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Children with Severe Acute Malnutrition in Mozambique

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...

External Quality Assessment Programme for Early Infant Diagnosis of HIV-1, Mozambique, 2011-2014

This study evaluated a National External Quality Scheme Program for early infant diagnosis of HIV. Fourteen laboratory technicians participated, and nine testing panel cycles were sent between 2011 and 2014. The response rate was 100% for the first eight panels, and the number of technicians with a test ...

Evaluation of the Ogawa-Kudoh method for tuberculosis isolation in two health units in Mozambique

Background: Mozambique is among the highest tuberculosis, tuberculosis–HIV and multidrug-resistant-tuberculosis burden countries. Although molecular technologies are available in-country, mycobacterial isolation through culture remains an important tool for tuberculosis diagnostics and drug susceptibil...

Limitations to current methods to estimate cause of death: a validation study of a verbal autopsy model

Gates Open Res; 16 (1), 2020
Background: Accurate information on causes of death (CoD) is essential to estimate burden of disease, track global progress, prioritize cost-effective interventions, and inform policies to reduce mortality. In low-income settings, where a significant proportion of deaths take place at home or in poorly-r...

Relatório Anual das Actividades Relacionadas ao HIV/SIDA

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 regulamentar e coordenar a prestação de cuidados e tratamento às pessoas vivend...

Relatório Anual do Programa Nacional do Combate a Tuberculose

4 Resumo O ano 2020 foi para o Programa Nacional de Controlo da Tuberculose (PNCT), caracterizado pelo ligeiro decréscimo da notificação de casos de tuberculose todas as formas que pode ter sido consequências das restrições adoptada para a mitigação da pandemia da COVID-19. Apesar desses desafios...

Avaliação epidemiológica em pacientes HIV no Sistema de Vigilância de rastreio de tuberculose na Provincia de Gaza em 2017

O Vírus da Imunodeficiência humana (HIV) é considerado o factor mais importante, que aumenta o risco para a reactivação da tuberculose (TB) latente e progressão para a TB activa. A co-infecção TB-HIV é um factor de risco graças a interação sinérgica entre os dois agentes na deficiência do...