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Access to Essential Medicines and Diagnostic Tests for Cardiovascular Diseases in Maputo City, Mozambique

Glob. heart (Online); 18 (1), 2023
Background: To tackle the increasing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and reduce premature cardiovascular (CV) mortality by a third by the year 2030, countries must achieve 80% availability of affordable essential medicines (EMs) and technologies in all health facilities. Objectives: To evalua...

Verbal and social autopsy of adult deaths and adult care-seeking pattern in mozambique, 2019-2020

Am. j. trop. med. hyg; 108 (5), 2023
In sub-Saharan Africa, recent data about causes of adult death and care-seeking during illnesses are limited. This analysis examines adult deaths using verbal and social autopsy data from a nationally and provincially representative sample registration system in Mozambique. Causes of death among those 18...

Countrywide Mortality Surveillance for Action in Mozambique: Results from a National Sample-Based Vital Statistics System for Mortality and Cause of Death

Am. j. trop. med. hyg; 108 (5), 2023
Sub-Saharan Africa lacks timely, reliable, and accurate national data on mortality and causes of death (CODs). In 2018 Mozambique launched a sample registration system (Countrywide Mortality Surveillance for Action [COMSA]-Mozambique), which collects continuous birth, death, and COD data from 700 randoml...

Countrywide Mortality Surveillance for Action in Mozambique: Results from a National Sample-Based Vital Statistics System for Mortality and Cause of Death

Am. j. trop. med. hyg; 108 (5), 2023
Sub-Saharan Africa lacks timely, reliable, and accurate national data on mortality and causes of death (CODs). In 2018 Mozambique launched a sample registration system (Countrywide Mortality Surveillance for Action [COMSA]-Mozambique), which collects continuous birth, death, and COD data from 700 randoml...

Tendência Crescente de Doenças Não Transmissíveis em Moçambique
Growing Trend of Noncommunicable Diseases in Mozambique

Introdução: A elevada morbilidade e mortalidade da infecção pelo SARS-CoV-2 em pacientes com doenças crónicas e o interesse despertado na compreensão da epidemiologia das Doenças Não Transmissíveis (DNTs) no nosso país constituem uma oportunidade para alargar a comunidade científica interessa...

Patterns of cardiovascular risk and disease in HIV-positive adults on anti-retroviral therapy in Mozambique

Introduction: With improved access to anti-retroviral therapy (ART) the focus of HIV treatment is changing to reducing chronic co-morbidities and their effects, but guidelines for HIV care in many African countries do not include screening for cardiac disease. Our study aimed to determine the pattern of ...

Avaliação do conhecimento dos profissionais de saúde sobre a cardiomiopatia periparto na área de saúde do hospital geral josé macamo na cidade de maputo

A cardiomiopatia periparto (CMPP) é um distúrbio de patogénese pouco conhecida, na qual ocorre uma disfunção do ventrículo esquerdo associado a sintomas de insuficiência cardíaca, no último mês da gestação até 6 meses pós-parto em uma mulher previamente saudável. OBJECTIVO: Avaliar o...

Factore associados a hipertensão arterial, diabetes mellitus e a co-morbilidade em Moçambique, 2005

A Hipertensão Arterial (HTA) e a Diabetes Mellitus (DM) são doenças crónicas, e factores de risco relevantes para as doenças cardiovasculares tanto em países desenvolvidos, como em países de baixos recursos. A coexistência de HTA e DM num indivíduo aumenta o risco para complicações cardiovascu...

Recent advances in the epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment of endomyocardial fibrosis in Africa

Heart; 99 (20), 2012
Endomyocardial fibrosis (EMF) continues to be an important and disabling disease in many parts of Africa, although its prevalence has declined in some parts of the continent. Increased access to medical care in general and increased availability of echocardiography in some parts of the continent have led...