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HIV prevalence and TB in migrant miners communities of origin in Gaza Province, Mozambique: the need for increasing awareness and knowledge

Baltazar, cynthia semá; DeLima, yara voss; Ricardo, helena; Botão, carlos; Langa, denise chitsondzo; Costa, paulino da; Malamule, diosdélio; Augusto , angelo; Viegas, sofia; Obisie-Nmehielle, nkechi; Tomm-Bonde, laura; Mulekya, francis bwambale.
PLos ONE; 15 (4), 2020
As part of ongoing efforts to generate evidence needed on HIV and tuberculosis (TB) to inform policies and programs aimed to improve the health outcomes of migrants and communities affected by migration and mining, a preliminary investigation was conducted through a biological and behavioral (BBS) approa...
AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections/epidemiology, AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections/psychology, AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections/drug therapy, AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections/virology, Awareness, Knowledge, Latent Tuberculosis/epidemiology, Latent Tuberculosis/microbiology, Latent Tuberculosis/psychology, Latent Tuberculosis/transmission, Mass Screening, Miners/psychology, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Prevalence, Risk Factors, Rural Population, Sexual Behavior, Surveys and Questionnaires, Transients and Migrants/psychology, Mozambique
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing genotype is associated with HIV infection in Mozambique

Viegas, sofia omar; Machado, adelina; Groenheit, Ramona; Ghebremichael, solomon; Pennhag, alexandra; Gudo, eduardo samo; Cuna, zaina; Langa, egídio; Miotto, paolo; Cirillo, Daniela, M.
PLos ONE; 7 (9), 2012
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
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