Em países economicamente fragilizados, com alta prevalência de infecções por vírus de imunodeficiência humana, as medidas de saúde pública e administrativas adoptadas para prevenir, controlar e conter a propagação da pandemia da COVID-19 representaram ameaça às actividades de controlo e manej...
Cotugno, nicola;
Pallikkuth, suresh;
Sanna, marco;
Dinh, vinh 2;
Armas, lesley;
Rinaldi, stefano;
Davis, sheldon;
Linardos, giulia;
Pascucci, giuseppe rubens;
Pahwa, rajendra;
Sitoe, nadia;
Vaz, paula;
Rossi, paolo;
Lain, maria grazia;
Palma, paolo;
Pahwa, savita.
Despite antiretroviral treatment (ART), immune dysfunction persists in children with perinatal HIV infection (HEI). Here we investigated the impact of HIV status on maternal antibody (Ab) passage, long-term vaccine induced immunity and B-cell maturation.
Methods: 46 HIV Exposed Uninfected (HEU), 43 HEI,...
d0010710,
d0197410,
d0071090,
d0070720,
d0070740,
d0109490,
d0123130,
d0146110,
Anti-Retroviral Agents/therapeutic use,
Pregnancy,
Mozambique
Uetela, Dorlim Moiana;
Gimbel, Sarah;
Inguane, Celso;
Onei, Uetela;
Dinis, Aneth;
Couto, Aleny;
Gaspar, Irénio;
Gudo, Eduardo S;
Chicumbe, Sérgio;
Gaveta, Sandra;
Augusto, Orvalho;
Sherr, Kenneth.
In 2018, Mozambique's Ministry of Health launched a guideline for a nationwide implementation of eight differentiated service delivery models to optimize HIV service delivery and achieve universal coverage of HIV care and treatment. The models were (1) Fast‐track, (2) Three‐month Antiretrovirals Disp...
Nguyen, Nadia;
Lovero, Kathryn L;
Falcao, Joana;
Brittain, Kirsty;
Zerbe, Allison;
Wilson, Ira B;
Kapogiannis, Bill;
Gusmao, eduarda pimentel de;
Vitale, Mirriah;
Couto, Aleny;
Simione, Teresa Beatriz;
Abrams, Elaine J;
Mellins, Claude A.
Little is known about the mental health needs of adolescents living with HIV (ALWH) in Mozambique, including the potential relationship between mental health challenges and poor antiretroviral treatment (ART) adherence. We examined mental health problems (anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disord...
Mozambique antiretroviral therapy is a database used to monitor patients receiving antiretroviral treatment (ART). This study's objective was to evaluate the system for the purpose to monitor patients receiving ART. data from 287,052 patients who started ART from January to December 2017 were verified, a...
Mukherjee, Trena;
Zerbe, Allison;
Falcao, Joanna;
Carey, Shauna;
Iaccarino, Alexandra;
Kolada, Brynn;
Kolada, Brynn;
Shadwick, Cady;
Singhal, Hitesh;
Weinstein, Lauren;
Vitale, Mirriah;
De Pimentel De Gusmao, Eduarda;
Abrams, Elaine J.
Adolescents and young people represent a growing proportion of people living with HIV (AYAHIV), and there is an urgent need to design, implement, and test interventions that retain AYAHIV in care. Using a human-centered design (HCD) approach, we codesigned CombinADO, an intervention to promote HIV viral ...
Nhampossa, Tacilta;
Fernández-Luis, Sheila;
Fuente-Soro, Laura;
Bernardo, Edson;
Nhacolo, Arsénio;
Orvalho, Augusto;
Nhacolo, Ariel;
Saura-Lázaro, Anna;
Lopez-Varela, Elisa;
Naniche, Denise.
Introduction: Manhiça District, in Southern Mozambique harbors high HIV prevalence and a long history of migration. To optimize HIV care, we sought to assess how caregiver's mobility impacts children living with HIV (CLHIV)´s continuation in HIV care and to explore the strategies used by caregivers to ...
Ambulatory Care Facilities,
Anti-HIV Agents/therapeutic use,
Anti-Retroviral Agents/administration & dosage,
Anti-Retroviral Agents/therapeutic use,
Caregiver Burden/psychology,
Caregivers/psychology,
HIV Infections/therapy,
HIV-1/pathogenicity,
Health Services Accessibility/trends,
Human Migration/trends,
Middle Aged,
Mozambique/epidemiology
Moçambique tem uma das maiores epidemias de HIV em crianças no continente africano. Estimava-se que 150 mil crianças entre 0 a 14 anos viviam com HIV em 20191 . Embora o acesso ao Tratamento Antirretroviral (TARV) ainda constitua um desafio, com apenas 63% das crianças vivendo com HIV em TARV em 2019...
"End of AIDS" requires ambitious testing, treatment, and adherence benchmarks, like UNAIDS' "90-90-90 by 2020." Mozambique's efforts to improve essential maternal/infant antiretroviral treatment (ART) exposes how austerity-related health system short-falls impede public HIV/AIDS service-delivery and hind...
Teasdale, Chloe A;
Brittain, Kirsty;
Zerbe, Allison;
Mellins, Claude Ann;
Falcao, Joana;
Couto, Aleny;
De Gusmao, Eduarda Pimentel;
Vitale, Mirriah;
Kapogiannis, Bill;
Simione, Teresa Beatriz;
Myer, Landon;
Mantell, Joanne;
Desmond, Christopher;
Abrams, Elaine J.
Background: Adolescents living with HIV (ALHIV) 15-19 years of age are a growing proportion of all people living with HIV globally and the population includes adolescents with vertically acquired HIV (AVH) and behaviorally acquired HIV (ABH).
Methods: We conducted a survey to measure sociodemographic ch...
Anti-Retroviral Agents/therapeutic use,
Condoms,
Educational Status,
HIV Infections/epidemiology,
HIV Infections/physiopathology,
HIV Infections/transmission,
HIV-1/pathogenicity,
Medical History Taking/statistics & numerical data,
Medication Adherence/statistics & numerical data,
Sexual Behavior/statistics & numerical data,
Mozambique/epidemiology
