Desde a declaração da COVID-19 como Emergência Internacional de Saúde Pública (PHEIC) pela Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS), tem-se tentado identificar factores que afectam o comportamento da pandemia para garantir melhor controlo. Dos diversos factores, os meteorológicos estão entre os mais ...
Background: Malaria continues to be a major public health concern in Africa. Approximately 3.2 billion people worldwide are still at risk of contracting malaria, and 80% of deaths caused by malaria are concentrated in only 15 countries, most of which are in Africa. These high-burden countries have achiev...
Background: Mozambique was recently ranked fifth in the African continent for the number of cases of malaria. In Chimoio municipality cases of malaria are increasing annually, contrary to the decreasing trend in Africa. As malaria transmission is influenced to a large extent by climatic conditions, model...
Background: The objective was to study if an association exists between the incidence of malaria and some weather parameters in tropical Maputo province, Mozambique.
Methods: A Bayesian hierarchical model to malaria count data aggregated at district level over a two years period is formulated. This mode...
Background: Protection against clinical malaria episodes is acquired slowly after frequent exposure to malaria parasites. This is reflected by a decrease with increasing age in both parasite density and incidence of clinical episodes. In many settings of stable malaria transmission, the presence...
