Results: 15

Alinhamento de Dados Entre os Sistemas de Reporte de HIV em Moçambique, 2017-2023

Introduçao: As intervenções de melhoria da qualidade dos dados, visam alinhar os sistemas nacionais de relatório do Ministério da Saúde (MISAU) e o Plano de Emergência do Presidente dos Estados Unidos da América para o Alívio da SIDA (PEPFAR). Por exemplo, a introdução da ficha de seguimento c...

Vigilância Combinada de Factores de Risco e Doenças Não Transmissíveis em Moçambique: Estudos de Exequibilidade
Combined Surveillance of Risk Factors and Noncommunicable Diseases in Mozambique: Feasibility Studies

Introdução: A crescente carga global de Doenças Não Transmissíveis (DNTs) exige sistemas de vigilância que permitam acompanhar as tendências e avaliar o impacto de intervenções. O objectivo destes estudos foi testar modelos de vigilância hospitalar e comunitária de factores de risco e de DNTs....

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...

People's willingness and determinants to use selected tele-consultation public health services in Mozambique

Background: To achieve universal health coverage by 2030, sub-Saharan African countries are planning to develop large scale tele-consultation public health services. However, there is a lack of knowledge regarding the level of peoples’ willingness to use this kind of tele-health services. To address th...

Short-term effects of the COVID-19 state of emergency on contraceptive access and utilization in Mozambique

PLos ONE; 16 (3), 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has increasingly disrupted the global delivery of preventive health care services, as a large number of governments have issued state of emergency orders halting service delivery. However, there is limited evidence on the realized effects of the pandemic and associated emergency ord...

Institutional Capacity Assessment Report- Mozambique

Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) in Mozambique poses serious health hazards for miners and communities. The World Health Organization (WHO) has been requested to assist the Ministry of Health of Mozambique (MISAU) to develop a Public Health Strategy as part of the National Action Plan (NAP) r...

Inquerito nacional sobre indicadores de malaria (IIM) 2018

Instituto Nacional de Saúde (INS) em colaboração com o Programa Nacional de Controlo da Malária (PNCM) e o Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), realizou o Inquérito Nacional de Indicadores de Malária (IIM 2018). O IIM 2018 foi um inquérito de base populacional concebido para obter estimativas...

Pathways of care for HIV infected children in Beira, Mozambique: pre-post intervention study to assess impact of task shifting

Background: In 2013, Mozambique implemented task-shifting (TS) from clinical officers to maternal and child nurses to improve care for HIV positive children < 5 years old. A retrospective, pre-post intervention study was designed to evaluate effectiveness of a new pathway of care in a sample of Beira Dis...

Barriers to Health Care in Rural Mozambique: A Rapid Ethnographic Assessment of Planned Mobile Health Clinics for ART

Background: In Mozambique, 1.6 million people are living with HIV, and over 60% of the population lives in rural areas lacking access to health services. Mobile health clinics, implemented in 2013 in 2 provinces, are beginning to offer antiretroviral therapy (ART) and basic primary care services. Prior t...

Educational Intervention Increased Referrals to Allopathic Care by Traditional Healers in Three High HIV-Prevalence Rural Districts in Mozambique

PLos ONE; 8 (8), 2013
Introduction: Delayed uptake of clinical services impedes favorable clinical outcomes in Mozambique. Care is delayed among patients who initiate care with traditional healers; patients with conditions like human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or tuberculosis are rarely referred to the health system in a ti...