The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted countries to swiftly implement rigorous preventive measures on a population-wide scale worldwide. However, in low-income countries like Mozambique this was difficult, coupled with a generalised lack of knowledge on how the population understood and complied with these m...
Many geographical areas of sub-Saharan Africa, especially in rural settings, lack complete and up-to-date demographic data, posing a challenge for implementation and evaluation of public health interventions and carrying out large-scale health research. A demographic survey was completed in Mopeia distri...
Objective: Universal coverage with insecticide-treated bed nets is a cornerstone of modern malaria control. Mozambique has developed a novel bed net allocation strategy, where the number of bed nets allocated per household is calculated on the basis of household composition and assumptions about who slee...
Objective: The objective of this qualitative study was to explore how clinical symptoms may affect adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) in HIV patients, and to explore factors, perceptions and attitudes related to adherence to therapy.
Design: A qualitative study was carried out in the context of th...
O plano de acção do Serviço Nacional de Saúde (SNS) para a promoção de saúde 2015 – 2017 foi desenvolvido para operacionalizar a Estratégia Nacional de Promoção de Saúde 2015 – 2019 [2014] (ENPS II) no contexto do SNS.
Através dum processo dinâmico sob liderança do Departamento de Promo...
Background: Group A streptococcal ß-hemolytic (GAS) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality among children and responsible for 20 – 30% of bacterial pharyngitis. Rare to few published data on the pattern of GAS epidemiology in Mozambique exists.
Objective: To Characterize the epidemiology of ...
Insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs) are an efficacious intervention for malaria prevention. During a national immunization campaign in Mozambique, vouchers, which were to be redeemed at a later date for free ITNs, were distributed in Manica and Sofala provinces. A survey to evaluate ITN ownership and usa...
Reduction of Child Mortality is one of the Millennium Development
Goals, Reduction of Infant and Child Mortality is one of the International Conference
on Population and Development Goals and one of the Poverty Reduction Strategy
Goals. Adherence to the Apostle Church of John Marange (ACJM) has affected ...
