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Association between antenatal care facility readiness and provision of care at the client level and facility level in five low- and middle-income countries

Background: Despite growing interest in monitoring improvements in quality of care, data on service quality in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) is limited. While health systems researchers have hypothesized the relationship between facility readiness and provision of care, there have been f...

Sistema de vigilância de eventos vitais e causas de morte (COMSA) 2020
Surveillance system for vital surveillance system (COMSA) 2020

Em Janeiro de 2017, Moçambique lançou o Sistema de Vigilância de Eventos Vitais e Causas de Morte (COMSA) para estabelecer um sistema nacional de amostragem para registo de eventos vitais para monitorar a ocorrência de mortalidade e causas de morte a nível nacional e subnacional, incluindo o uso de ...

Condições de nascimento e fatores gestacionais associados, antes e durante a pandemia da covid-19, no distrito de nampula– moçambique
Birth conditions and associated gestational factors, before and during the covid-19 pandemic, in the district of Nampula - Mozambique

ALBERTO, Rapieque José, M.Sc., Universidade Federal de Viçosa, março de 2023. Condições de nascimento e fatores gestacionais associados, antes e durante a pandemia da COVID-19, no distrito de Nampula–Moçambique. Orientadora Sílvia Eloiza Priore. Coorientadores: Dayane de Castro Morais, Sylvia do...

Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on maternal and perinatal health service utilisation and outcomes in Mozambique: an interrupted time series analysis

BMJ Open; 12 (11), 2022
Objectives: To measure the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on maternal and perinatal health services and outcomes in Mozambique. Design: This is an observational study analysing routine service delivery data using interrupted time series analysis. We used 43 months of district-level panel data with Apr...

Relatório sobre pré-marcação de consultas por horário na região sul de moçambique nos serviços de doenças crónicas e consulta pré-natal na atenção primária
Report on pre-booking appointments by timetable in the southern region of Mozambique region of mozambique in chronic disease services and prenatal consultations in primary care

O presente relatório versa sobre as atividades de implementação, monitoria e avaliação do programa de Pré-Marcação de Consultas por Horário nas consultas de Doenças Crónicas, Farmácia e Consulta Pré-Natal – implementado em 40 unidades sanitárias nas províncias de Maputo (21), Gaza (14)...

Known HIV status among adolescent women attending antenatal care services in Eswatini, Ethiopia and Mozambique

Reprod. health; 18 (90), 2021
Background: Antenatal care (ANC) clinics remain important entry points to HIV care for pregnant women living with HIV-including adolescents. Prior knowledge of their HIV status at ANC enrollment is crucial to providing services for prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV. We examined kn...

Feasibility of task-sharing with community health workers for the identification, emergency management and referral of women with pre-eclampsia, in Mozambique

Reprod. health; 18 (145), 2021
Background Maternal mortality is an important public health problem in low-income countries. Delays in reaching health facilities and insufficient health care professionals call for innovative community-level solutions. There is limited evidence on the role of community health workers in the management o...

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...

Factores associados ao ganho de peso gestacional e aos resultados da gravidez das puérperas atendidas na consulta pós-parto do hospital distrital da manhiça, 2019
Factors associated with gestational weight gain and pregnancy outcomes of puerperal women seen in the postpartum consultation at manhiça dstrict hospital, 2019

O ganho de peso gestacional excessivo ou insuficiente é considerado como um factor de risco para a gestante e ao feto podendo ser influenciado por vários factores dentre eles: sócio-demográficos, clínicos, estilos de vida e obstétricos. Este estudo tinha como objectivo principal determinar o ganho ...

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...