Globally, People Who Inject Drugs (PWID) have limited healthcare, treatment, and prevention services, and they frequently experience stigma and negative attitudes toward healthcare providers when accessing services. Mozambique, with a general population HIV prevalence of 12.5%, has one of the highest rat...
Epidemics,
Mozambique/epidemiology,
d0036950,
d0066780,
d0149440,
d0550300,
HIV Infections/therapy,
HIV Infections/epidemiology,
Substance Abuse, Intravenous/complications,
Substance Abuse, Intravenous/epidemiology,
Substance Abuse, Intravenous/therapy
Mozambique has one of the world's highest HIV/AIDS burdens. Despite significant investment in HIV care and treatment, pregnant and lactating women's retention in care remains suboptimal. One reason for poor maternal retention is lack of male partner support. We tested an interventional couple-based HIV c...
Approximately 15% of people with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa have comorbid depression, which impacts treatment outcomes. We describe predictors of baseline depressive symptoms in 1079 female and 1079 male participants in a cluster-randomized trial in Zambézia Province, Mozambique from November 2017 to Dec...
Schacht, caroline de;
Amorim, gustavo;
Rompaey, sara van;
Melo, mayra;
Verissimo, cheinaze;
Naftal, anibal;
Graves, erin;
Bilhete, fernandes;
Tique, josé;
Wester, c william.
The community adherence support group (CASG) was one of the first differentiated service delivery (DSD) models introduced in Mozambique. This study assessed the impact of this model on retention in care, loss to follow-up (LTFU), and viral suppression among antiretroviral therapy (ART)-treated adults in ...
Background: Service providers' attitudes toward interventions are essential for adopting and implementing novel interventions into healthcare settings, but evidence of evaluations in the HIV context is still limited. This study is part of the CombinADO cluster randomized trial (ClinicalTrials.gov NCT0493...
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...
OBJETIVO: No mundo, cerca de 16 milhões de mulheres vivem com HIV, muitas delas em idade reprodutiva. Esses níveis de infecção e as taxas de transmissão vertical ainda trazem grandes preocupações, devido à pouca intervenção terapêutica precoce em muitos países africanos. Em Moçambique, país...
HIV,
Mental Health,
Pregnancy, High-Risk,
Breast Feeding,
Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical,
HIV Infections/diagnosis,
HIV Infections/prevention & control,
HIV Infections/transmission,
HIV Infections/therapy,
Cultural Factors,
Counseling/methods,
Integrative Community Therapy,
Prevalence,
Mozambique/epidemiology
Azam, khalide;
Khosa, celso;
Viegas, sofia;
Massango, isabel;
Bhatt, nilesh;
Jani, ilesh;
Heinrich, Norbert;
Hoelscher, michael;
Gillespie, Stephen, H.
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is a difficult-to-treat disease requiring the combination of four antibiotics for a minimum of 6 months. Rapid and quantitative biomarkers to monitor treatment response are urgently needed for individual patient management and clinical trials. C-reactive protein (CRP) is oft...
In 2021, there were more than 150,000 new HIV infections among children; however, only 52% of children living with HIV were on antiretroviral treatment (ART) [1]. Untreated infants and young children are at high risk for rapid disease progression and death [2, 3]; early diagnosis and rapid treatment can ...
Across rural sub-Saharan Africa, people living with HIV (PLHIV) commonly seek out treatment from traditional healers. We report on the clinical outcomes of a community health worker intervention adapted for traditional healers with insight into our results from qualitative interviews. We employed a pre-p...
