Uptake of HIV testing and antiretroviral therapy (ART) services during antenatal care (ANC) in rural Mozambique is disappointing. To nurture supportive male engagement in ANC services, we partnered with traditional birth attendants and trained a new type of male-to-male community health agent, "Male Cham...
Community Health Workers,
Community-Based Participatory Research,
Counseling,
HIV Infections/diagnosis,
HIV Infections/prevention & control,
HIV Infections/transmission,
Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical/prevention & control,
Mass Screening/statistics & numerical data,
Midwifery,
Mozambique,
Pregnancy Complications, Infectious/diagnosis,
Pregnant Women/ethnology,
Pregnant Women/psychology,
Prenatal Care,
Sexual Partners,
Treatment Outcome
In Mozambique, more than a million children are living with HIV or are otherwise vulnerable due to HIV. In response to this crisis, the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief funds programs that serve orphans and vulnerable children affected by HIV and their families. These programs retain case wo...
Clinical Governance,
HIV Infections/diagnosis,
Child, Orphaned,
d0149440,
d0062950,
HIV Infections/therapy,
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice,
Vulnerable Populations,
Mozambique
Sack, Daniel E;
Frisby, Michael B;
Diemer, Matthew A;
Schacht, Caroline De;
Graves, Erin;
Kipp, Aaron M;
Emílio, Almiro;
Matino, Ariano;
Barreto, Ezequiel;
Rompaey, Sara Van;
Wallston , Kenneth A;
Audet, Carolyn M.
The ability to understand another’s emotions and act appropriately, empathy, is an important mediator of
relationship function and health intervention fidelity. We adapted the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) – an empathy
scale – among seroconcordant expectant couples with HIV in the Homens par...
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 ...
Introduction: With improved access to anti-retroviral therapy (ART) the focus of HIV treatment is changing to reducing chronic co-morbidities and their effects, but guidelines for HIV care in many African countries do not include screening for cardiac disease. Our study aimed to determine the pattern of ...
Recent studies suggest that a large proportion of new HIV-1 infections in mature epidemics occurs within discordant couples, making discordancy a major contributor to the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa. This paper aims at assessing changes over a five-year period (2009-2015) on the (risk) factors associate...
Background: HIV prevalence in Mozambique (12.6%) is one of the highest in the world, yet ~40% of people living with HIV (PLHIV) do not know their HIV status. Strategies to increase HIV testing uptake and diagnosis among PLHIV are urgently needed. Home-based HIV testing services (HBHTS) have been evaluate...
Introduction: Viral load testing is essential to manage HIV disease, especially in infants and children. Early infant diagnosis (EID) is performed using nucleic-acid testing in children under 18 months. Resource-limited health systems face severe challenges to scale-up both viral load and EID to unpreced...
HIV Infections/diagnosis,
HIV Infections/virology,
HIV-1/genetics,
HIV-1/isolation & purification,
HIV-1/physiology,
Infant, Newborn, Diseases/diagnosis,
Infant, Newborn, Diseases/virology,
Mozambique,
Sensitivity and Specificity,
Prospective Studies,
Viral Load/methods,
Viremia/diagnosis,
Viremia/virology
Background: Early infant diagnosis (EID) of HIV-exposed and initiation of HIV-positive infants on anti-retroviral therapy (ART) requires a well-coordinated cascade of care. Loss-to-follow-up (LTFU) can occur at multiple steps and effective EID is impeded by human resource constraints, difficulty with pat...
HIV Testing,
Health Personnel,
Mozambique,
Lost to Follow-Up,
Early Diagnosis,
Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical,
HIV Infections/drug therapy,
HIV Infections/diagnosis,
Anti-Retroviral Agents/therapeutic use,
Mass Screening
Giroux, Mathieu Maheu;
Marsh, Kimberly;
Doyle, Carla M;
Godin, Arnaud;
Delaunay, Charlotte Lanièce;
Johnson, Leigh F;
Jahn, Andreas;
Abo, Kouamé;
Mbofana, Francisco;
Boily, Marie-Claude;
Buckeridge, David L;
Hankins, Catherine A;
Eatong, Jeffrey W.
HIV testing services (HTS) are a crucial component of national HIV responses. Learning one's HIV diagnosis is the entry point to accessing life-saving antiretroviral treatment and care. Recognizing the critical role of HTS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) launched the 90-90-90 tar...
Anti-Retroviral Agents/therapeutic use,
Mozambique/epidemiology,
d0078580,
d0117950,
d0149440,
d0580280,
d0000829220,
HIV Infections/diagnosis,
HIV Infections/drug therapy,
HIV Infections/epidemiology,
High-Throughput Screening Assays/methods,
Models, Theoretical,
Serologic Tests
