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Health care services for survivors of gender-based violence: a community and clinic-based intervention in Zambézia province, Mozambique

AIDS Care; 35 (1), 2023
Moçambique introduziu directrizes para serviços integrados de violência baseada no género (VBG) em 2012. Em 2017, formámos prestadores de serviços em serviços empáticos e de apoio aos sobreviventes da VBG e introduzimos serviços domiciliários para sobreviventes que não têm acompanhamento. As ...

Impacto dos modelos de financiamento na equidade no acesso, qualidade dos cuidados e garantia do direito universal à saúde em moçambique
Impact of financing models on equity in quality of care and guaranteeing the right to universal right to health in mozambique

O financiamento do sistema de saúde de Moçambique é marcado pela fragmentação decorrente da arquitetura da Assistência ao Desenvolvimento, pelo subfinanciamento crônico e por uma estrutura centralizada, que espelha as desigualdades sociais no país (Pfeiffer et al, 2017). O sector de saúde moçam...

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 ...

Therapeutic Borderlands: Austerity, Maternal HIV Treatment, and the Elusive End of AIDS in Mozambique

Med. anthropol. q; 35 (2), 2021
"End of AIDS" requires ambitious testing, treatment, and adherence benchmarks, like UNAIDS' "90-90-90 by 2020." Mozambique's efforts to improve essential maternal/infant antiretroviral treatment (ART) exposes how austerity-related health system short-falls impede public HIV/AIDS service-delivery and hind...

Estimativas de mortalidade materna e infantil, aleitamento materno e anemia, para o ano de 2024, no contexto da pandemia da COVID-19 em Moçambique: Plataforma de saúde da mulher, criança e nutrição (psmcn)

Globalmente, a crise sócio-económica desencadeada pela pandemia da CVID-19 constitui um risco gravi ao estado nutricional e de sobrevivência de criaças de países de baixa e média renda. 1No contexto actual da pandemia espera-se que haja um aumento na desnutrição infantil devido a factores diverco...

Discussão Integrada de Casos Clínicos Usando Plataformas Digitais Durante a Pandemia da COVID-19
Integrated Discussion of Clinical Cases Using Digital Platforms During the COVID-19 pandemic

A pandemia da COVID-19, causada pelo vírus SARS-CoV-2 ou Novo Coronavírus, vem produzindo repercussões não apenas de ordem biomédica e epidemiológica em escala global, como também impactos sociais, económicos, políticos, culturais e históricos sem precedentes na história recente das epidemias,...

Short-term effects of the COVID-19 state of emergency on contraceptive access and utilization in Mozambique

PLos ONE; 16 (3), 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has increasingly disrupted the global delivery of preventive health care services, as a large number of governments have issued state of emergency orders halting service delivery. However, there is limited evidence on the realized effects of the pandemic and associated emergency ord...

Capacity building, local ownership and implementation of a multi-level HIV/AIDS positive health, dignity, and prevention initiative in Mozambique: approach, challenges and lessons learned

Global health action; 13 (1), 2020
Mozambique has for many years suffered from a high burden of HIV with an estimated prevalence of 11.1% among adults age 15–49 years. In response, Positive Health, Dignity, and Prevention (or Positive Prevention as it is known in Mozambique), was developed as a method of integrating HIV care and prevent...

Demographic and health community-based surveys to inform a malaria elimination project in magude district, southern Mozambique

BMJ Open; 10 (5), 2020
Objectives: A Demographic and Health Platform was established in Magude in 2015, prior to the deployment of a project aiming to evaluate the feasibility of malaria elimination in southern Mozambique, named the Magude project. This platform aimed to inform the design, implementation and evaluation of the ...

Is the closest health facility the one used in pregnancy care-seeking? A cross-sectional comparative analysis of self-reported and modelled geographical access to maternal care in Mozambique, India and Pakistan

Int. j. health geogr; 19 (1), 2020
July Travel time to care is known to influence uptake of health services. Generally, pregnant women who take longer to transit to health facilities are the least likely to deliver in facilities. It is not clear if modelled access predicts fairly the vulnerability in women seeking maternal care across dif...