Results: 7

Acceptability and perceived facilitators and barriers to the usability of biometric registration among infants and children in Manhiça district, Mozambique: A qualitative study

PLos ONE; 16 (12), 2021
In low-and middle-income countries, many infants and children remain unregistered in both civil registration and healthcare records, limiting their access to essential rights-based services, including healthcare. A novel biometric registration prototype, applying a non-touch platform using smart phones a...

The impact of the caregiver mobility on child HIV care in the Manhiça District, Southern Mozambique: A clinical based study

PLos ONE; 16 (12), 2021
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 ...

Utilization of a local 'Malaria Post' indicates that carers from a village in Mozambique respond appropriately to malaria attacks

Acta trop.; 221 (106017), 2021
As malaria elimination becomes a possibility the focus of interventions changes from vector control to disease control. It is important that treatment occurs early during an infection in order for it to be efficacious, especially at the population level. The time between the onset of symptoms and treatme...

Motivação e desafios dos voluntários provedores de cuidados domiciliários a doentes padecendo de SIDA: os casos das associações Ahitipaluxene e Kubatsirana, incluindo os seus respectivos membros localizados nas cidades de Maputo e Chimoio

o presente trabalho debruça-se sobre a motivação dos voluntários provedores de Cuidados Domiciliários (CDs) a doentes padecendo de SIDA nas comunidades. O estudo busca uma realidade da necessidade crescente de envolver a comunidade para apoiar os esforços do governo na garantia da continuidade dos ...

Access to HIV prevention and care for HIV-exposed and HIV-infected children: a qualitative study in rural and urban Mozambique

BMC public health (Online); 14 (1240), 2014
Background: Follow-up of HIV-exposed children for the delivery of prevention of mother-to-child transmission services and for early diagnosis and treatment of HIV infection is critical to their survival. Despite efforts, uptake of postnatal care for these children remains low in many sub-Saharan African ...

Health care utilization and attitudes survey in cases of moderate-to-severe diarrhea among children ages 0-59 months in the District of Manhica, southern Mozambique

Am. j. trop. med. hyg; 89 (1), 2013
In the predominantly rural Manhiça district, in southern Mozambique, diarrhea is one of the leading causes of death among children under 5 years. Caretakers randomly selected from the Demographic Surveillance Database were invited to participate in a community-based survey on use of healthcare services ...

Community response to intermittent preventive treatment delivered to infants (IPTi) through the EPI system in Manhiça, Mozambique

Trop. med. int. health; 11 (11), 2006
Objective: To describe attitudes to the expanded programme on immunization (EPI) and intermittent preventive treatment in infants (IPTi), and perceptions of the relationship between them. In particular, whether the introduction of IPTi negatively affects community attitudes to, or use of, EPI; or, conver...