O Plano Estratégico Nacional de HIV e SIDA de Moçambique (PEN III) considera as Mulheres Trabalhadoras de Sexo (MTS) um grupo prioritário para intervenções para prevenir o HIV, pela sua elevada vulnerabilidade à infecção pelo HIV. O Inquérito Integrado Biológico e comportamental entre Mulheres ...
presente estudo faz uma análise dos percursos das mães na procura de medicamentos para doenças em menores de cinco anos, na cidade de Xai-Xai em Moçambique. Dados etnográficos recolhidos em Xai-Xai, o estudo revela que na procura de respostas para as doenças dos seus filhos, num contexto de plurali...
Background Anobservational study was conducted in Maputo, Mozambique, to investigate trends in prevalence of HIV drug resistance (HIVDR) in antiretroviral (ART) naïve subjects initiating highly active antiretroviral treatment (HAART).
Methodology/Principal Findings
Toevaluate the pattern of drug resis...
Mozambique,
Pharmaceutical Preparations,
R Factors,
Disease,
HIV,
Anti-Retroviral Agents,
Mutation,
Viruses,
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d0154970,
d0072390,
d0159950,
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Background: The prevalence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in Mozambique is one of the highest in the world, though in spite of this the prevalence of occult hepatitis B infection (OBI) is unknown.
Objectives: This study was conducted with the aim to ...
Anti-HIV Agents/therapeutic use,
DNA, Viral/genetics,
HIV Infections/complications,
Hepatitis B/complications,
Hepatitis B/diagnosis,
Hepatitis B virus/genetics,
Mozambique,
Hepatitis B virus/isolation & purification,
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Viral Load
Chambal, Lúcia Mabalane;
Gudo, Eduardo Samo;
Carimo, Awa;
Real, Rita Corte;
Mabunda, Nédio;
Maueia, Cremildo;
Vubil, Adolfo;
Zicai, Ana Flora;
Bhatt, Nilesh;
Antunes, Francisco.
Background HIV/ HBVcoinfected patients are at high risk of developing chronic HBV infection, liver cir rhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. In Mozambique, where HIV prevalence is one of the highest in the world, HIV-infected patients are scarcely characterized in terms of HBV coin fection and 3TC-resista...
d0065280,
Hepatitis B virus/genetics,
HIV Infections/blood,
HIV Infections/virology,
HIV Infections/complications,
Coinfection/epidemiology,
Hepatitis B, Chronic/complications,
Hepatitis B, Chronic/virology,
Mutation,
Mozambique
Bila, Dulce Celina Adolfo;
Young, Pedro;
Merks, Harriet;
Vubil, Adolfo Salvador;
Mahomed, Mussagy;
Augusto, Angelo;
Abreu, Celina Monteiro;
Mabunda, Nédio Jonas;
Brooks, James, I;
Tanuri, Amilcar;
Jani, Ilesh Vinodrai.
Objective: InMozambique, highly active antiretroviral treatment (HAART) was introduced in 2004 followed by decentralizationandexpansion, resulting inamorethan20-fold increase incoverageby2009. ImplementationofHIV drugresistancethresholdsurveys (HIVDR-TS) iscrucial inorder tomonitor theemergenceof transmi...
Anti-HIV Agents/pharmacology,
Anti-HIV Agents/therapeutic use,
Antiretroviral Therapy, Highly Active,
Mozambique,
Drug Resistance, Viral/genetics,
HIV Infections/therapy,
HIV Infections/epidemiology,
HIV Infections/virology,
HIV-1/classification,
HIV-1/radiation effects,
HIV-1/genetics,
Mozambique/epidemiology,
Mutation,
Phylogeny
Viegas, sofia omar;
Machado, adelina;
Groenheit, Ramona;
Ghebremichael, solomon;
Pennhag, alexandra;
Gudo, eduardo samo;
Cuna, zaina;
Langa, egídio;
Miotto, paolo;
Cirillo, Daniela, M.
The Beijing genotype is a lineage of Mycobacterium tuberculosis that is distributed worldwide and responsible for large epidemics, associated with multidrug-resistance. However, its distribution in Africa is less understood due to the lack of data. Our aim was to investigate the prevalence and possible t...
Mycobacterium tuberculosis,
AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections/epidemiology,
AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections/microbiology,
Coinfection/epidemiology,
Mozambique,
Coinfection/microbiology,
Mycobacterium tuberculosis/genetics,
Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length,
Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant/genetics,
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary/microbiology
What is now referred to by western societies as mental illness, was - and in some way
still is – understood along the centuries using different interpretations. Associated with
each of these interpretations are specifically, an historic moment, and cultural meanings
vast and complex.
The concentrati...
Mental Disorders/therapy,
Social Representation,
Stereotyping,
Social Discrimination,
Disaster Vulnerability,
Health Personnel,
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice,
Homeopathic Cure,
Medicine, Traditional,
Foraminifera/isolation & purification,
Therapeutics/methods,
Mozambique
Background: Plasmodium falciparum and HIV-1 infection cause substantial morbidity and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. Increasing evidence suggests these two pathogens interact negatively when infecting the same individual.
Methods: A cross-sectional study among HIV-1 infected and uninfected populations...
