A Organização Mundial de Saúde reporta que em várias partes do mundo os
indicadores de saúde dos homens e rapazes são mais baixos quando
comparado com o das mulheres e raparigas. Todavia, estas disparidades
têm recebido pouca atenção dos programas de saúde nacionais, regionais,
globais e do...
O Ministério da Saúde aprovou em outubro de 2008, o Plano Estratégico do Sector da Saúde (2015 – 2019). O mesmo foi elaborado com vista a fazer face aos desafios que se colocam ao sector, com vista a atingir os Objectivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável através dos principais indicadores de saúde...
Malaria is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in Mozambique. We present a malaria early
warning system (MEWS) for Mozambique informed by seven years of weekly case reports of malaria in children under 5 years of age from 142 districts. A spatio-temporal model was developed based on explanatory c...
Background: Malaria continues to be a major public health concern in Africa. Approximately 3.2 billion people worldwide are still at risk of contracting malaria, and 80% of deaths caused by malaria are concentrated in only 15 countries, most of which are in Africa. These high-burden countries have achiev...
Climate,
Malaria/epidemiology,
Socioeconomic Factors,
Spatial Analysis,
Altitude,
Geographic Information Systems,
Geographic Mapping,
Mozambique/epidemiology,
Prevalence,
Public Health,
Risk Assessment,
Risk Factors,
Temperature
Background: On 9 January 2015, in a rural town in Mozambique, >230 persons became sick and 75 died of an illness linked to drinking pombe, a traditional alcoholic beverage.
Methods: An investigation was conducted to identify case patients and determine the cause of the outbreak. A case patient was define...
Gudo, Eduardo Samo;
Cook, Kyla;
Kasper, Amelia M;
Vergara, Alfredo;
Salomão, Cristolde;
Oliveira, Fernanda;
Ismael, Hamida;
Saeze, Cristovão;
Mosse, Carla;
Fernandes, Quinhas;
Viegas, Sofia Omar;
Baltazar, Cynthia Semá;
Doyle, Timothy J;
Yard, Ellen;
Steck, Alaina;
Serret, Mayda;
Falconer, Travis M;
Kern, Sara E;
Brzezinski, Jennifer L;
Turner, James A;
Boyd, Brian L;
Jani, Ilesh V.
Background: On 9 January 2015, in a rural town in Mozambique, >230 persons became sick and 75 died of an illness linked to drinking pombe, a traditional alcoholic beverage.
Methods: An investigation was conducted to identify case patients and determine the cause of the outbreak. A case patient was define...
O acesso aos serviços de saúde de qualidade é crucial para uma saúde boa e
equilibrada. Este relatório tem por objectivo fornecer evidências científicas sólidas sobre
o acesso ao sistema de saúde em Moçambique e as desigualdades sociais que afectam
6
esse acesso. Para o efeito, foi realizada u...
Mayor, alfredo;
Dobaño, carlota;
Nhabomba, augusto;
Guinovart, caterina;
Jiménez, alfonso;
Manaca, maria nelia;
Aguilar, ruth;
Barbosa, arnoldo;
Rodríguez, mauricio H;
Cisteró, pau;
Quimice, lazaro M;
Menéndez, clara;
Aponte, john J;
Ordi, jaume;
Chitnis, chetan E;
Alonso, pedro L.
Background: Difficulties to disentangle the protective versus exposure role of anti-malarial antibodies hamper the identification of clinically-relevant immune targets. Here, factors affecting maternal IgG and IgMs against Plasmodium falciparum antigens, as well as their relationship with parasite infect...
Malaria, Falciparum/diagnosis,
Mozambique,
Plasmodium falciparum/immunology,
Antibodies, Monoclonal,
Immunoglobulin G/metabolism,
Population Characteristics,
Malaria, Falciparum/epidemiology,
Malaria, Falciparum/prevention & control,
Pregnancy Complications, Parasitic/diagnosis,
Pregnancy Complications, Parasitic/epidemiology,
Pregnancy Complications, Parasitic/prevention & control,
Pregnancy Complications, Parasitic/parasitology,
Prevalence
Dobano, carlota;
Berthoud, tamara;
Nhabomba, augusto;
Manaca, maria nelia;
Guinovart, caterina;
Aguilar, ruth;
Barbosa, arnoldo;
Groves, penny;
Rodríguez, mauricio H;
Jimenez, alfons;
Quimice, lazaro M;
Aponte, john J;
Ordi, jaume;
Doolan, denise L;
Mayor, alfredo;
Alonso, pedro L.
Background: Increased susceptibility to malaria during pregnancy is not completely understood. Cellular immune responses mediate both pathology and immunity but the effector responses involved in these processes have not been fully characterized. Maternal and fetal cytokine and chemokine responses to mal...
Ford, Natan;
Meintjes, Graeme;
Calmy, Alexandra;
Doherty, Meg;
Vojnov, Lara;
Victoria, Marco;
Doherty, Meg;
Penazzato, Martina;
Migone, Chantal;
By grave, Helen.
Em 2017, a Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS) publicou diretrizes para o manejo da doença avançada pelo vírus da imunodeficiência humana (HIV) dentro de uma abordagem de saúde pública. Dados recentes sugerem que mais de um terço das pessoas que iniciam a terapêutica anti-retroviral (TARV) o fa...
