The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted countries to swiftly implement rigorous preventive measures on a population-wide scale worldwide. However, in low-income countries like Mozambique this was difficult, coupled with a generalised lack of knowledge on how the population understood and complied with these m...
Background: Deficiencies in the provision of evidence-based obstetric care are common in low-income countries, including Mozambique. Constraints relate to lack of human and financial resources and weak health systems, however limited resources alone do not explain the variance. Understanding the healthca...
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...
Self-medication is recognised as an important public health problem as studies carried out in different countries have been reporting higher prevalence rates. Although self-medication in Mozambique has been perceived as a common practice, few studies have been undertaken to ascertain the degree of preval...
O Sindroma de Imunodeficiência Adquirida (SIDA) é um problema
importante de saúde pública, principalmente nos países em desenvolvimento como
Moçambique. Os adolescentes apresentam alta prevalência dos comportamentos de
risco ao Vírus de Imunodeficiência Humana (...
Background: Malaria control remains a challenge in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2006, the World Health Organization (WHO) reinforced the recommendation of indoor residual spraying (IRS) with dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) to reduce malaria transmission. The National Malaria Control Programme has been re...
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...
