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...
Traditional healers are commonly utilised throughout sub-Saharan Africa instead of - and in concert with - biomedical facilities. Traditional healers are trusted providers and prominent community members and could be important partners in improving engagement with HIV services in endemic contexts. Our st...
Esta dissertação procura-se analisar as dinâmicas e interações entre agentes e instituições que se articulam para a regulamentação das práticas da Medicina Tradicional e Alternativa (MTA) no Sistema Nacional de Saúde (SNS) em Moçambique, tendo em conta a exortação dada pela Organização Mu...
Medicine, Traditional/psychology,
Medicine, African Traditional,
Anthropology, Medical,
Anthropology, Cultural/history,
Containment of Biohazards,
Public Policy/legislation & jurisprudence,
Mozambique/ethnology,
Power, Psychological,
Social Representation/standards,
Health Policy/history
Contexte : L’épidémie du virus de l’immunodéficience humaine au Mozambique est un problème grave de santé publique et le Ministère de la Santé a étendu le traitement antirétroviral à tous les districts du pays. Cependant, on constate un nombre élevé d’abandon du traitement encore insuff...
Mozambique/epidemiology,
Anti-Retroviral Agents,
Anthropology, Cultural,
Medication Adherence,
HIV Infections/drug therapy,
Developing Countries,
Plants, Medicinal,
Epidemics/prevention & control,
Medicine, African Traditional,
Anti-Retroviral Agents/pharmacology,
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes/drug therapy,
HIV Infections/therapy,
Anti-HIV Agents/therapeutic use
Introduction: Delayed uptake of clinical services impedes favorable clinical outcomes in Mozambique. Care is delayed among patients who initiate care with traditional healers; patients with conditions like human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or tuberculosis are rarely referred to the health system in a ti...
d0019960,
HIV Infections/epidemiology,
HIV Infections/therapy,
Health Education,
d0082880,
d0149440,
Health Facilities,
Health Systems/organization & administration,
Medicine, African Traditional,
Referral and Consultation/statistics & numerical data,
Rural Population/statistics & numerical data,
Information Storage and Retrieval
HIV prevalence rates in Zambézia Province were estimated to be 12.6% in 2009. A number of educational campaigns have been aimed at improving HIV transmission and prevention knowledge among community members in an effort to reduce infection rates. These campaigns have also encouraged people to seek healt...
Anti-HIV Agents/therapeutic use,
Mozambique/epidemiology,
Africa,
Residence Characteristics,
Delivery of Health Care,
HIV Infections/epidemiology,
HIV Infections/psychology,
HIV Infections/therapy,
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice,
Medicine, African Traditional,
Patient Acceptance of Health Care/psychology,
Patient Acceptance of Health Care/statistics & numerical data,
Rural Population/statistics & numerical data,
Sexual Partners/psychology
Culture-Bound Syndromes,
Plants, Toxic,
Pharmaceutical Preparations,
Plants, Medicinal,
Medicine, African Traditional,
Medicine, Traditional,
51924,
Toxicity Measurements,
Medication Errors,
Medicine,
Community Medicine
A presente secção assume que há suficiente e consenso acerca da problematica geral dos CSP, na qual o programa dos APE´s dece ser enquadrado, assim como da sua impçementação em Moçambique apoós a independencia nacional. Não será pois descutidas definições, conce+tos e aspectos de politica n...
A publicação do tomo 3 de ´´planta medicinais – seu uso tradicional em Moçambique´´ responde ao propósito de prosseguir a obra com prioridade regula. De um modo geral, seguiu-se na exposição, descrição e ordenação, a metodologia dos trabalhos anteriores…...
Plants, Medicinal,
Mozambique,
Plants, Toxic,
Medicine, Traditional,
Community Medicine,
Medicine, African Traditional,
Pharmaceutical Preparations,
Medication Errors,
Toxicity Measurements,
Culture-Bound Syndromes
A publicação do tomo 3 de ´´planta medicinais – seu uso tradicional em Moçambique´´ responde ao propósito de prosseguir a obra com prioridade regula. De um modo geral, seguiu-se na exposição, descrição e ordenação, a metodologia dos trabalhos anteriores…...
Pharmaceutical Preparations,
Plants, Medicinal,
Medicine, Traditional,
Mozambique,
Community Medicine,
Medication Errors,
Toxicity Measurements,
Plants, Toxic,
Culture-Bound Syndromes,
Medicine, African Traditional
