The investment in health services in low- and middle-income countries has increased substantially in recent years.1 Such investment has been led by unprecedented efforts to combat major diseases, enabled by the availability of lower-cost and effective drug regimens for treatment and prophylaxis, along wi...
In September, 2020, the WHO Prioritisation Roadmap for COVID-19 vaccines gave priority to prevention of severe disease and the highest risk groups. In July, 2021, the revised Roadmap noted that despite the progressive emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern, defined as mutations conferring increased ...
Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM)
in Mozambique poses serious health hazards
for miners and communities. The World Health
Organization (WHO) has been requested to assist
the Ministry of Health of Mozambique (MISAU)
to develop a Public Health Strategy as part of the
National Action Plan (NAP) r...
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) affect more than one billion people living in vulnerable
conditions. In spite of initiatives recently contributing to fill NTDs gaps on national and local prevalence and distribution, more epidemiological data are still needed for effective control and elimination inter...
O objetivo desse trabalho é compreender melhor as relações entre Política Externa e Saúde Global através do estudo entre a cooperação Brasil-Moçambique na construção da “Sociedade Moçambicana de Medicamentos”. Pretende-se abordar a Saúde nas Relações Internacionais e aprofundar esse te...
Scaling up access to HIV viral load testing for individuals undergoing antiretroviral therapy in low-resource settings is a global health priority, as emphasised by research showing the benefits of suppressed viral load for the individual and the whole population. Historically, large-scale diagnostic tes...
Introduction: Trained human resources are fundamental for well-functioning health systems, and the lack of health workers undermines public sector capacity to meet population health needs. While external brain drain from low and middle-income countries is well described, there is little understanding of ...
Malaria modeling can inform policy and guide research for malaria elimination and eradication from local implementation to global policy. A research and development agenda for malaria modeling is proposed, to support operations and to enhance the broader eradication research agenda. Models are envisioned...
