Khowaja, Asif Raza;
Quresh, Rahat Najam;
Sawchuck, Diane;
Oladapo, Olufemi T;
Adetoro, Olalekan O;
Orenuga, Elizabeth A;
Bellad, Mrutyunjaya;
Mallapur, Ashalata;
Charantimath, Umesh;
Sevene, Esperança;
Munguambe, Khátia;
Boene, Helena Edith;
Vidler, Marianne;
Bhutta, Zulfiqar A.
Globally, pre-eclampsia and eclampsia are major contributors to maternal and perinatal mortality;
of which the vast majority of deaths occur in less developed countries. In addition, a disproportionate number
of morbidities and mortalities occur due to delayed access to health services. The Community Lev...
Eclampsia,
Community Participation,
Community Health Services/statistics & numerical data,
Maternal Mortality,
Patient Acceptance of Health Care,
Perception,
Pre-Eclampsia,
Residence Characteristics,
Qualitative Research,
Prenatal Care,
Midwifery,
Feasibility Studies,
Mozambique
Uptake of HIV testing and antiretroviral therapy (ART) services during antenatal care (ANC) in rural Mozambique is disappointing. To nurture supportive male engagement in ANC services, we partnered with traditional birth attendants and trained a new type of male-to-male community health agent, "Male Cham...
Community Health Workers,
Community-Based Participatory Research,
Counseling,
HIV Infections/diagnosis,
HIV Infections/prevention & control,
HIV Infections/transmission,
Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical/prevention & control,
Mass Screening/statistics & numerical data,
Midwifery,
Mozambique,
Pregnancy Complications, Infectious/diagnosis,
Pregnant Women/ethnology,
Pregnant Women/psychology,
Prenatal Care,
Sexual Partners,
Treatment Outcome
ART has the potential to transform the experience of living with HIV/AIDS in countries such as Mozambique with 1.4 million HIV-positive people, more than 300,000 of whom are presently in need of treatment. Since 2004, the Mozambican government, with the support of the international community, has been pu...
Audet, Carolyn M;
Blevins, Meridith;
Chire, Yazalde Manuel;
Aliyu, Muktar H;
Vaz, Lara M. E;
Antonio, Elisio;
Alvim, Fernanda;
Bechtel, Ruth;
Wester, C. William;
Vermund, Sten H.
Uptake of HIV testing and antiretroviral therapy (ART) services during antenatal care (ANC) in rural Mozambique is disappointing. To nurture supportive male engagement in ANC services, we partnered with traditional birth attendants and trained a new type of male-to-male community health agent, "Male Cham...
Community Health Workers,
Community-Based Participatory Research,
Counseling,
HIV Infections/diagnosis,
Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical/prevention & control,
Mass Screening,
Midwifery,
Mozambique,
Pregnancy Complications, Infectious/diagnosis,
Pregnant Women/psychology,
Prenatal Care,
Sexual Partners,
Treatment Outcome
Boene, helena;
Vidler, marianne;
Sacoor, charfudin;
Nhama, abel;
Nhacolo, ariel;
Bique, cassimo;
Alonso, pedro;
Sawchuck, diane;
Qureshi, rahat;
Macete, eusébio;
Menendez, clara;
Dadelszen, peter von;
Sevene, esperança;
Munguambe, khátia;
Munguambe, khátia.
Background: Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest maternal mortality ratio at 500 deaths per 100,000 live births. In Mozambique maternal mortality is estimated at 249-480 per 100,000 live births and eclampsia is the third leading cause of death. The objective of this study was to describe the community unde...
Community Mental Health Services/statistics & numerical data,
Community Participation,
Eclampsia,
Maternal Mortality,
Midwifery,
Patient Acceptance of Health Care,
Perception,
Pre-Eclampsia,
Pregnancy,
Prenatal Care,
Residence Characteristics,
Mozambique
Midwifery,
Infant, Newborn,
Maternal-Child Health Services,
Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities,
Pregnancy,
Cryopyrin-Associated Periodic Syndromes,
Emergencies,
Delivery, Obstetric,
Women's Health,
Maternal Death,
Pregnancy Complications,
Infant Mortality,
Maternal Nutrition
A morte de uma mulher, devido a complicações da gravidez ou parto, constitui uma tragédia no seio da família e uma grande perda na sua comunidade, pois a mulher é, em geral, o suporte moral, social e económico da família e da comunidade. A morte materna também afecta o desenvolvimento das crianç...
Midwifery/education,
Infant, Newborn/growth & development,
Obstetric Labor Complications,
Maternal-Child Health Services,
Infant Mortality/trends,
Maternal Mortality/trends,
Women's Health/classification,
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/diagnosis,
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/prevention & control,
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/drug therapy,
Malaria/prevention & control,
Mozambique/epidemiology
Background: A legacy of colonial rule coupled with a devastating 16-year civil war through 1992 left Mozambique economically impoverished just as the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic swept over southern Africa in the late 1980s. The crumbling Mozambican health care sys...
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/transmission,
Chronic Disease,
Medication Adherence,
Risk Reduction Behavior,
Epidemics,
Heterosexuality,
Microscopy, Electron, Scanning Transmission,
Mortality,
Prevalence,
Health Systems,
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome,
Viruses/immunology,
Midwifery,
Therapeutics,
Syndrome,
Attitude,
Poverty,
HIV,
Risk,
Medication Adherence/statistics & numerical data,
Africa/epidemiology,
Mozambique/epidemiology,
Knowledge,
Behavior,
Perception,
Disease Prevention,
Gender Identity,
Pharmaceutical Preparations,
Ethanol,
Delivery of Health Care,
Infrastructure
