Results: 15

Registo de Ocorrência de Malária Associada a Convulsões em Processos Clínicos de Menores de 5 Anos no Distrito de Monapo

Introdução: A malária é a principal causa de problemas de saúde em Moçambique, sendo responsável por cerca de 40% de todas consultas externas nas unidades sanitárias do país. Este estudo visa analisar os processos de crianças menores de 5 anos com diagnóstico de malária e convulsões, no dist...

The provision of malaria services in border districts of four countries in Southern Africa: results from a cross-sectional community assessment of malaria border health posts

Malar. j. (Online); 22 (318), 2023
Background The importation of parasites across borders remains a threat to malaria elimination. The Southern African Development Community Malaria Elimination Eight (E8) established 39 border health facilities on 5 key international borders between high and low-burden countries. These clinics aimed to im...

Detecting temporal and spatial malaria patterns from first antenatal care visits

Nature communications; 14 (4004), 2023
Pregnant women attending first antenatal care (ANC) visits represent a promising malaria surveillance target in Sub-Saharan Africa. We assessed the spatio-temporal relationship between malaria trends at ANC (n = 6471) and in children in the community (n = 3933) and at health facilities (n = 15,467) in so...

Achieving malaria testing and treatment targets for children under five in Mozambique: a cost-effectiveness analysis

Malar. j. (Online); 21 (320), 2022
Background: The entire population of Mozambique is at risk for malaria, which remains one of the leading causes of death. The 2017-2022 National Malaria Strategic Plan focuses on reducing malaria morbidity and mortality in high- and low-transmission areas. This study aimed to estimate the costs and healt...

Readiness of Mozambique Health Facilities to Address Undernutrition and Diarrhea in Children under Five: Indicators from 2018 and 2021 Survey Data

The World Health Organization’s systems framework shows that service delivery is key to addressing pressing health needs. Inadequate healthcare and the lack of healthcare services are factors associated with undernutrition and diarrhea in children under five, two health conditions with high morbi-morta...

Challenges for malaria surveillance during the COVID-19 emergency response in Nampula, Mozambique, January - May 2020

Pan Afr. med. j; 38 (254), 2021
Since the announcement of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in January 30th 2020, 68 countries reported to the World Health Organization that they were experiencing disruptions in malaria diagnosis and treatment. This situation had the potential to lead to delays in diagnosis and treatment, whi...

Directriz de garantia da qualidade do diagnóstico laboratorial da malária em moçambique

A malária é um problema de saúde pública em Moçambique sendo endémica em todo o país, variando de zonas de baixa a alta endemicidade. As condições climáticas como a temperatura e a precipitação e as condições ambientais como locais propícios para a reprodução do vector contribuem para...

Estimation of malaria-attributable fever in malaria test–positive febrile outpatients in three provinces of mozambique, 2018

Am. j. trop. med. hyg; 102 (1), 2020
Like most malaria-endemic countries, Mozambique relies on tabulation of confirmed malaria test–positive febrile patients to track incidence of malaria. However, this approach is potentially biased by incidental malaria parasitemia in patients with fever of another etiology. We compared pan-Plasmodium a...

Malaria case management commodity supply and use by community health workers in Mozambique, 2017

Malar. j. (Online); 18 (47), 2019
Community health workers (CHWs) provide preventive care and integrated community case management (iCCM) to people with low healthcare access worldwide. CHW programmes have helped reduce mortality in myriad countries, but little data on malaria supply chain management has been shared. This project evaluat...

Dynamics of afebrile plasmodium falciparum Infections in mozambican men

Clin. infect. dis; 67 (7), 2018
Background. Afebrile Plasmodium falciparum infections usually remain undetected and untreated in the community and could potentially contribute to sustaining local malaria transmission in areas aiming for malaria elimination. Methods. Thirty-two men with afebrile P. falciparum infections detected with ra...