Background: While WHO guidelines recommend iron supplements to only iron-deficient children in high infection pressure areas, these are rarely implemented. One of the reasons for this is the commonly held view that iron supplementation increases the susceptibility to some infectious diseases including ma...
HIV prevalence rates in Zambézia Province were estimated to be 12.6% in 2009. A number of educational campaigns have been aimed at improving HIV transmission and prevention knowledge among community members in an effort to reduce infection rates. These campaigns have also encouraged people to seek healt...
Anti-HIV Agents/therapeutic use,
Mozambique/epidemiology,
Africa,
Residence Characteristics,
Delivery of Health Care,
HIV Infections/epidemiology,
HIV Infections/psychology,
HIV Infections/therapy,
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice,
Medicine, African Traditional,
Patient Acceptance of Health Care/psychology,
Patient Acceptance of Health Care/statistics & numerical data,
Rural Population/statistics & numerical data,
Sexual Partners/psychology
A randomized controlled field trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a single oral dose of 30 mg/kg of oxfendazole (OFZ) treatment for control of porcine cysticercosis was conducted in 4 rural villages of Angónia district, north-western Mozambique. Two hundred and sixteen piglets aged 4 months were sele...
Administration, Oral,
Anthelmintics/administration & dosage,
Benzimidazoles/administration & dosage,
Cysticercosis/drug therapy,
Cysticercosis/veterinary,
Cysticercosis/epidemiology,
Endemic Diseases,
Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay,
Taenia solium,
Swine Diseases/drug therapy,
Swine Diseases/parasitology,
Swine Diseases/epidemiology,
Swine,
Mozambique/epidemiology,
Taenia solium/isolation & purification
A epidemia de HIV na África Subsaariana continua a ser causa
de uma signifi cativa taxa de mortalidade e morbilidade, tendo
esta região uma parte desproporcionada da carga global,
conforme mostra a descrição a seguir. Enquanto o número
de novas infecções na África Subsaariana reduziu em 25%
nos ...
HIV/radiation effects,
Infections/epidemiology,
Surveys and Questionnaires/statistics & numerical data,
Mortality/trends,
Miners/statistics & numerical data,
Urban Area,
Population,
Residence Characteristics,
HIV/isolation & purification,
Human Migration,
Mozambique/epidemiology,
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Background: Low Birth Weight (LBW) is prevalent in low-income countries. Even though the economic evaluation of
interventions to reduce this burden is essential to guide health policies, data on costs associated with LBW are scarce. This study aims to estimate the costs to the health system and to the ho...
We conducted a health facility-based survey to estimate the prevalence of malaria among febrile patients at health facilities (HFs) in Maputo City. Patients answered a questionnaire on malaria risk factors and underwent malaria testing. A malaria case was defined as a positive result for malaria by micro...
CD4+ T-cell counting is usually performed on whole blood obtained from standard venipuncture. Venipuncture requires expertise, results in discomfort and generates biological waste. Capillary blood could be used to measure the levels of CD4+ T-cell in children, elderly and very ill patients. We studied th...
Maueia, Cremildo;
Costa, Deise;
Meggi, Bindiya;
Ismael, Nalia;
Walle, Carla;
Curvo, Raphael;
Abreu, Celina;
Bhatt, Nilesh;
Tanuri, Amilcar;
Jani, Ilesh V;
Ferreira, Orlando C Ferreira.
The HIV/AIDS pandemic is primarily caused by HIV-1. Another virus type, HIV-2, is found mainly in West African countries. We hypothesized that population migration and mobility in Africa may have facilitated the introduction and spreading of HIV-2 in Mozambique. The presence of HIV-2 has important implic...
Aide, Pedro;
Dobano, Carlota;
Sacarlal, Jahit;
Aponte, John J;
Mandomando, Inácio;
Guinovart, Caterina;
Bassat, Quique;
Renom, Montse;
Puyol, Laura;
Macete, Eusebio;
Herreros, Esperanza;
Leach, Amanda;
Dubois, Marie-Claude;
Demoitie, Marie-Ange;
Lirvrens, Marc;
Vekemans, Johan;
Loucq, Christian L;
Ballou, W. Ripley;
Cohen, Joe;
Alonso, Pedro L.
Previous studies with the malaria vaccine RTS,S/AS02A in young children in a malaria endemic area of Mozambique have shown it to have a promising safety profile and to reduce the risk of Plasmodium falciparum infection and disease. In this study, we assessed the antibody responses to the P. falciparum an...
Mandomando, Inácio;
Naniche, Denise;
Pasetti, Marcela F;
Cuberos, Lilian;
Sanz, Sérgio;
Valles, Xavier;
Sigauque, Betuel;
Macete, Eusébio;
Nhalungo, Delino;
Kotloff, Karen L;
Levine, Myron M;
L Alonso, Pedro.
Measles has been a major killer among vaccine-preventable diseases in children < 5 years of age in developing countries. Despite progress in global efforts to reduce mortality, measles remains a public health problem. Hospital-based measles surveillance was conducted in Manhica, Mozambique (July 2001–S...
