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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Faz-se uma avaliação do impacto de actividades das parteiras tradicionais capacitadas (PTC) em três distritos da província de Manica de Março a Abril de 1996. Os objectivos foram caracterizar a utilização dos serviços das PTC, avaliar a divulgação da consulta pré~-natal e planeamento familiar ...
