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Mapping Antimalarial Drug Resistance in Mozambique: A Systematic Review of Plasmodium falciparum Genetic Markers Post-ACT Implementation

Abstract Malaria continues to be a significant public health burden in many tropical and subtropical regions. Mozambique ranks among the top countries affected by malaria, where it is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality, accounting for 29% of all hospital deaths in the general population and 42% o...

Efficacy and safety of pyronaridine-artesunate (PYRAMAX) for the treatment of P. falciparum uncomplicated malaria in African pregnant women (PYRAPREG): study protocol for a phase 3, non-inferiority, randomised open-label clinical trial

BMJ Open; 13 (10), 2023
Malaria infection during pregnancy increases the risk of low birth weight and infant mortality and should be prevented and treated. Artemisinin-based combination treatments are generally well tolerated, safe and effective; the most used being artemether-lumefantrine (AL) and dihydroartemisinin-piperaquin...

Causas de Morte Materna entre 2017 a 2019 no Hospital Provincial de Xai-Xai, Província de Gaza
Causes of Maternal Death between 2017 and 2019 in Xai-Xai Provincial Hospital, Gaza Province

Os indicadores das mortes maternas são muito sensíveis a assistência obstétrica de qualidade. Adicionalmente, o tempo na obtenção de assistência adequada é o factor preponderante relacionado às mortes maternas. Segundo a Organização Mundial de Saúde (OMS), mais de 290 mil mulheres perderam a ...

Guião orientador sobre o rastreio e tratamento da sífilis na mulher grávida e no período pós-parto e seguimento da criança exposta e infectada por sífilis
Guideline on the screening and treatment of syphilis in pregnant woman and in the postpartum period and follow-up of the child exposed and infected by syphilis

As Infecções de Transmissão Sexual (ITS) encontram-se entre as infecções de mais alta incidência no mundo onde mais de 1 milhão de ITS’s são adquiridas a cada dia (WHO Guidelines for the Treatment of Treponema Pallidum (Syphilis) 2016), e causam complicações graves, afectando de forma inaceit...

Quantifying the gender gap in the HIV care cascade in southern Mozambique: We are missing the men

PLoS One; 16 (2), 2021
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...

Population-level data on antenatal screening for proteinuria; India, Mozambique, Nigeria, Pakistan

Bull. W.H.O. (Print); 98 (10), 2020
To estimate the prevalence and prognosis of proteinuria at enrolment in the 27 intervention clusters of the Community-Level Interventions for Pre-eclampsia cluster randomized trials. We identified pregnant women eligible for inclusion in the trials in their communities in four countries (2013–2017). We...

Relatório semestral 2020: relatório semestral das actividades relacionadas ao HIV/SIDA

Na estrutura do Ministério da Saúde, o Programa Nacional de Controlo de ITS-HIV/SIDA (PNC ITS-HIV/SIDA) representa a unidade técnica que assegura à gestão dos serviços de saúde relacionados ao HIV, sendo sua missão coordenar, regulamentar e prestar cuidados e tratamento às pessoas vivendo ...

SARS-CoV-2 em Grávidas e Puérperas no Início da Transmissão Comunitária na Cidade de Maputo
SARS-CoV-2 in Pregnant and Postpartum Women at the Beginning of Transmission Community in Maputo City

A COVID-19 é causada por coronavírus descri to pela primeira vez em 2019, designado SARS- -CoV-2,1 e afectou até ao momento milhões de pessoas em todo o mundo, resultando em milhares de óbitos.2 O quadro patológico pode cursar com síndrome respiratória aguda grave. Nos casos sin tomáticos, os do...

Community-level interventions for pre-eclampsia (CLIP) in Mozambique: A cluster randomised controlled trial

Objectives: Pregnancy hypertension is the third leading cause of maternal mortality in Mozambique and contributes significantly to fetal and neonatal mortality. The objective of this trial was to assess whether task-sharing care might reduce adverse pregnancy outcomes related to delays in triage, transpo...