Results: 6

Safety of incidental exposure to the novel oral poliovirus vaccine type 2 in pregnancy: A longitudinal observational study in Mozambique, 2022-2023

Vaccine; 15 (), 2024
To minimize the risk of vaccine-derived poliovirus emergences, the novel oral poliovirus vaccine type 2 (nOPV2), was bioengineered to have increased genetic stability compared to Sabin OPV and recommended for outbreak response Emergency Use Listing by WHO. Although pregnant women are not a target populat...

Contaminação de areia usada para consumo comercializada em mercados informais da cidade de maputo
Contamination of sand used for consumption sold in informal markets in maputo city

: O consumo da areia é comum em Maputo, sendo a sua comercialização feita em mercados informais. Na areia existem microrganismos contaminantes, alguns dos quais patógenos. O objectivo do nosso estudo foi determinar a contaminação microbiana da areia comercializada para o consumo em cinco mercados i...

Sociodemographic characteristics of professional categories most affected by COVID-19 in Mozambique from March to July 2020

Pan Afr. med. j; 43 (155), 2022
The risk of a worker becoming ill due to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is related to occupational exposure to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Due to the need to restore work activities in Mozambique, the study was conducted with the aim of identifying the occupational ...

Low engagement in HIV services and progress through the treatment cascade among key populations living with HIV in Mozambique: alarming gaps in knowledge of status

Mozambique has a generalized HIV epidemic of 13.5% among the general population. Early modeling exercises in Mozambique estimate that key populations (KP), defined as men who have sex with men (MSM), female sex workers (FSW), and people who inject drugs (PWID), along with their partners account for about...

Ocorrência de factores de risco para doenças crónicas em trabalhadores de saúde num hospital urbano de Moçambique
Occurrence of risk factors for chronic diseases in health workers in an urban hospital in Mozambique

Introdução: As doenças crónicas não transmissíveis (DCNT) apresentam uma tendência crescente em Moçambique, onde causam 28% de mortes hospitalares. Estas doenças estão geralmente associadas a quatro factores de risco comportamentais: tabagismo, alcoolismo, inactividade física e alimentação i...

Effect of Community ART Groups on retention-in-care among patients on ART in Tete Province, Mozambique: a cohort study

BMJ Open; 7 (8), 2017
Objectives Estimate the effect of participation in Community ART Groups (CAG) versus individual care on retention-in-care (RIC) on antiretroviral therapy (ART). Design Retrospective cohort study. Setting High levels of attrition (death or loss-to-follow-up (LTFU) combined) on ART indicate that delivery...