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Post-ART Symptoms Were Not the Problem: A Qualitative Study on Adherence to ART in HIV-Infected Patients in a Mozambican Rural Hospital

Maixenchs, maria; Boene, helena; Anselmo, rui; Mindu, carolina; Alonso, pedro; Menéndez, clara; Macete, Eusébio; Pool, robert; Letang, emílio; Naniche, denise; Munguambe, khátia.
PLos ONE; 10 (9), 2015
Objective: The objective of this qualitative study was to explore how clinical symptoms may affect adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) in HIV patients, and to explore factors, perceptions and attitudes related to adherence to therapy. Design: A qualitative study was carried out in the context of th...
Anti-Retroviral Agents/adverse effects, Anti-Retroviral Agents/therapeutic use, Antiretroviral Therapy, Highly Active/adverse effects, Family Characteristics, HIV/drug effects, HIV Infections/drug therapy, HIV Infections/epidemiology, Hospitals, Rural, Medication Adherence, Prospective Studies, Qualitative Research, Socioeconomic Factors, Mozambique/epidemiology
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Caesarean section rates in Mozambique

Long, qiana; Kempas, taina; Mendes, tavares; Klementt, reija; Hemminki, elina.
BMC pregnancy childbirth; 15 (253), 2015
Background: The Caesarean section (C-section) rate is used as an indicator for availability and utilization of life-saving obstetric services. The purpose of the present study was to explore changes in C-section rates between 1995 and 2011 by area, place of delivery and maternal socioeconomic factors in ...
Neoplasms/virology, Cesarean Section/trends, Socioeconomic Factors, Hospitals, Public, Parturition, Parity/immunology, Rural Areas, Live Birth/epidemiology, Surveys and Questionnaires/statistics & numerical data, Health Centers, Delivery, Obstetric/trends, Mozambique/epidemiology
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Estimativas de mortalidade adulta em Moçambique, 1987 a 2007

Alberto, Serafim Adriano.
As estimativas adequadas de mortalidade são importantes para entender a dinâmica demográfica, compreender as mudanças de saúde de uma população e melhorar o planejamento dos países. Entretanto, em diversos países em desenvolvimento, como é o caso de Moçambique, a baixa qualidade ou a inexistê...
Mortality, Life Expectancy, Mortality Registries/statistics & numerical data, Socioeconomic Factors, Mozambique, 29161, HIV, Malaria/mortality, 57930/methods
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Effect of point-of-care CD4 cell count tests on retention of patients and rates of antiretroviral therapy initiation in primary health clinics: an observational cohort study

Jani, lesh V; Sitoe, Nádia E; Alfai, Eunice R; Chongo, Patrina L; Quevedo, Jorge I; Rocha, Beatriz M; Lehe, Jonathan D; Peter, Trevor F.
Lancet; 378 (9802), 2011
Background: Loss to follow-up of HIV-positive patients before initiation of antiretroviral therapy can exceed 50% in low-income settings and is a challenge to the scale-up of treatment. We implemented point-of-care counting of CD4 cells in Mozambique and assessed the effect on loss to follow-up before im...
Age Factors, Ambulatory Care, Attitude to Health, CD4 Lymphocyte Count, Cohort Studies, Confidence Intervals, Developing Countries, Treatment Outcome, Patient Compliance, Mozambique, Retrospective Studies, Socioeconomic Factors
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Recursos Humanos da Saúde em Moçambique: Ponto de situação

Ferrinho, Paulo; Omar, Carolina.
O trabalho e a reflexão sobre as problemáticas dos Recursos Humanos da Saúde (RHS) no sistema de saúde em Moçambique é surpreendente. Moçambique pode-se orgulhar de inovações que têm conduzido, de uma forma sustentada, a uma melhoria, que vai ao encontro das suas metas. Muito tem sido alcançad...
Health Resources, Workforce, Health Services, Growth and Development, Health Policy, Investments, World Health Organization, Public Sector, Private Sector, Mozambique, Supply, Socioeconomic Factors, Health Profile
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Post-conflict rehabilitatiom of health services with reference of the Mozambique conflict

London School of Hygiene of Tropical Medicine.
When Mozambique became independent in 1975, the country was one of the poorest countries in the world. Most of the people lived ~ in extreme poverty and were illiterate, with an illiteracy rate ' that was in between 85-90%;(UNDP,1993) The people suffered from preventable ,communicable diseases, with high...
Health Services Accessibility, Community Health Workers, Financial Support, Primary Health Care, Communicable Diseases, Socioeconomic Factors, Child Health, Health Expenditures, Armed Conflicts, Social Adjustment
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Influência da actividade física e dos factores sócio-económicos sobre as componentes da estrutura do valor físicos relacionados com a saúde. estudo em crianças e jovens moçambicanos

Silva, António Manuel Machado Prista e.
O estudo da condição física (CF) as populações tem, nas últimas décadas. Conhecido um crescimento interessante da sua associação aos hábitos de actividade física e ao estado de saúde e bem-estar [Bouchard et al, Malina 1989]. Com efeito, às sociedades industrializadas têm- se levantado prob...
Urban Population, Motor Activity, Physical Fitness, Physics, Mozambique, Socioeconomic Factors, Adolescent, Child, Preschool, Risk Factors, Pulmonary Heart Disease
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