Like most malaria-endemic countries, Mozambique relies on tabulation of confirmed malaria test–positive febrile patients to track incidence of malaria. However, this approach is potentially biased by incidental malaria parasitemia in patients with fever of another etiology. We compared pan-Plasmodium a...
Background Palliative care is an essential part of medical practice but it remains limited, inaccessible, or even absent in low andmiddle income countries. Objectives Toevaluate the general knowledge, attitudes, and practices of Mozambican physicians on palliative care. Methods Across–sectional observa...
Palliative Care,
Neoplasms/diagnosis,
Euthanasia/statistics & numerical data,
Hospitals/trends,
Neoplasms,
Physicians/statistics & numerical data,
Surveys and Questionnaires/statistics & numerical data,
Paternalism/ethics,
Mozambique/epidemiology,
Aged,
Attitude of Health Personnel,
Cross-Sectional Studies,
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice,
Middle Aged,
Palliative Care/psychology,
Surveys and Questionnaires
Brooke, b d;
Raman, j;
Frean, j;
Rundle, k;
Maartens, f;
Misiani, e;
Mabuza, a;
Barnes, k I;
Moonasar, d p;
Dlamini, q;
Charles, s;
Blumberg, l.
The COVID-19 global pandemic reached South Africa (SA), Mozambique and Eswatini in March 2020.[1] Since then an exponential increase in SARS-CoV-2 infections has severely stretched SA’s healthcare system, especially in terms of in-hospital treatment of severe cases. The impact of COVID-19 in Mozambique...
COVID-19/transmission,
Delivery of Health Care/trends,
Coinfection/drug therapy,
51607/prevention & control,
Mozambique/epidemiology,
South Africa/epidemiology,
Malaria/epidemiology,
SARS-CoV-2/growth & development,
Movement/radiation effects,
Pandemics/prevention & control,
Atmospheric Precipitation,
Risk,
Hospitalization
Cambaco, olga;
Menendez, yara alonso;
Kinsman, john;
Sigaúque, betuel;
Wertheim, heiman;
Do, nga;
Gyapong, margaret;
John-Langba, johannes;
Sevene, esperança;
Munguambe, khátia.
Background: Antibiotic misuse and other types of unnecessary use of antibiotics can contribute to accelerate the process of antibiotic resistance, which is considered a global concern, mostly affecting low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). In Mozambique there is limited evidence on community knowledge...
Amoxicillin/therapeutic use,
Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic use,
Awareness,
Drug Resistance, Microbial,
Focus Groups,
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice,
Medication Adherence,
Mozambique,
Qualitative Research,
Rural Population,
Self Medication,
Drug Resistance, Bacterial,
Treatment Failure,
Health Strategies
The scarcity of current, complete, and accurate primary data on causes of death in most of sub-Saharan Africa restricts the ability of countries to measure progress against many of the Sustainable Development Goal targets, measure the impact of programmatic interventions, prioritise and ...
Jofrin, léa;
Goodman, steven m;
Wilkinson, david a;
Ramasindrazana, beza;
Lagadec, erwan;
Minter, gildas le;
Santos, andréa dos;
Schoeman, m corrie;
Sookhareea, rajendraprasad;
Tortosa, Pablo;
Gudo, eduardo s;
Mavingui, Patrick;
Lebarbenchon, camille.
Bats provide key ecosystem services such as crop pest regulation, pollination, seed dispersal, and soil fertilization. Bats are also major hosts for biological agents responsible for zoonoses, such as coronaviruses (CoVs). The islands of the Western Indian Ocean are identified as a major biodiversity hot...
Mozambique,
Prevalence,
Indian Ocean Islands/epidemiology,
Social Control, Formal,
Coronavirus Infections/epidemiology,
Coronavirus Infections/veterinary,
Coronavirus Infections/virology,
DNA, Viral/genetics,
Ecosystem,
Evolution, Molecular,
Genetic Variation,
Host Specificity,
Phylogeny,
Mass Screening,
Phylogeography/methods,
RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase,
Alphacoronavirus/genetics,
Betacoronavirus/genetics,
Chiroptera/virology,
RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase/genetics,
Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction,
Zoonoses/epidemiology,
Zoonoses/virology
Abílio, Ana Paula;
Silva, Manuel;
Kampango, Ayubo;
Narciso, Inácio;
Samo Gudo, Eduardo;
das Neves, Luís Carlos Bernardo;
Sida, Mohsin;
Fafetine, José Manuel;
de Almeida, António Paulo Gouveia;
Parreira, Ricardo.
Background: Mosquito-borne diseases involving arboviruses represent expanding threats to sub-Saharan Africa imposing as considerable burden to human and veterinary public health. In Mozambique over one hundred species of potential arbovirus mosquito vectors have been identi-fied, although their precise r...
Results from two recently established population-based registries in Mozambique are reported: Beira in the central region (2014-2017) and Maputo, the capital city, in the South (2015-2017). The results are compared to those from Maputo (Lourenço Marques at the time) in 1956-1960 (appearing Cancer Incide...
Background: In many countries, there is evidence that intimate partner violence is prevalent among young women. This study aimed to determine the prevalence and the factors associated with intimate partner violence in young women (aged 15-24 years) attending secondary schools in Maputo, Mozambique.
Metho...
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
