Orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) programs focusing on improving HIV outcomes for children and adolescents living with HIV (C&ALHIV) may improve viral load (VL) testing coverage, a critical step toward achieving VL suppression. In Mozambique, we conducted a retrospective medical record review compari...
Background: Temperature, precipitation, relative humidity (RH), and Normalized Different Vegetation Index (NDVI), influence malaria transmission dynamics. However, an understanding of interactions between socioeconomic indicators, environmental factors and malaria incidence can help design interventions ...
O Plano Estratégico Nacional (PEN) de Resposta ao HIV e SIDA 2021-2025 é o quinto plano de Moçambique.
Baseia-se no progresso alcançado até o momento, aborda as causas da epidemia e lacunas identificadas durante os últimos cinco anos e busca ampliar as melhores práticas para garantir que a qualida...
In Mozambique, more than a million children are living with HIV or are otherwise vulnerable due to HIV. In response to this crisis, the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief funds programs that serve orphans and vulnerable children affected by HIV and their families. These programs retain case wo...
Clinical Governance,
HIV Infections/diagnosis,
Child, Orphaned,
d0149440,
d0062950,
HIV Infections/therapy,
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice,
Vulnerable Populations,
Mozambique
Mozambique has one of the highest burdens of HIV globally, and people who inject drugs (PWID) have one of thehighest HIV infection rates in Africa. After the implementation of the first Biological Behavioral Surveillance (BBS)
Survey among PWID in Mozambique, the Ministry of Health started the developmen...
Pharmaceutical Preparations,
HIV Infections/complications,
Epidemics,
Vulnerable Populations,
Biological Products,
Harm Reduction,
Adolescent,
Drug Users,
Mozambique,
HIV Infections/prevention & control,
Needle-Exchange Programs/methods,
Substance Abuse, Intravenous/complications
Moçambique possui uma epidemia do HIV com uma prevalência nacional de 13.2% entre os adultos
na faixa etária de 15-49 anos 1
e, estima-se que o país possui a oitava mais alta taxa de prevalência de
HIV no mundo 2
. Os comportamentos heterossexuais de risco, incluindo parceiros múltiplos e
concorren...
HIV/growth & development,
Infections/transmission,
Vulnerable Populations/statistics & numerical data,
Risk,
Women, Working/statistics & numerical data,
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/diagnosis,
Surveys and Questionnaires/statistics & numerical data,
Women's Health/legislation & jurisprudence,
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/drug therapy,
Mozambique/epidemiology
Baltazar, Cynthia Semá;
Rafael, Florentina;
Langa, José Paulo M;
Chicumbe, Sergio;
Cavailler , Philippe;
Gessner, Bradford D;
Pezzoli, Lorenzo;
Barata, Américo;
Zaina, Dores;
Inguane, Dortéia;
Mengel, Martin A;
Munier, Aline.
In addition to improving water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) measures and optimal case management, the introduction of Oral cholera vaccine (OCV) is a complementary strategy for cholera prevention and control for vulnerable population groups. In October 2016, the Mozambique Ministry of Health implemente...
Nala, Rassul;
Cummings, Beverley;
Celso, Inguane;
Benedetti, Marcos;
Chissano, Marcos;
Sathane, Isabel;
Young, Peter;
Silva, Danilo;
Mirjahangir, Joy;
Grasso, Mike;
Raymond, H Fisher;
McFarland, Willi;
Lane, Tim.
The population of men who have sex with men (MSM) has been largely ignored in HIV-related policies and programming in Mozambique and there is little information about the contribution of MSM to the HIV epidemic. An integrated biological and behavioral study among MSM using respondent-driven sampling was ...
Mozambique,
HIV Infections/blood,
HIV Infections/epidemiology,
HIV Infections/prevention & control,
Homosexuality, Male/statistics & numerical data,
Patient Acceptance of Health Care/statistics & numerical data,
Prevalence,
Risk Factors,
Risk-Taking,
Seroepidemiologic Studies,
Vulnerable Populations/statistics & numerical data
The thesis presents an in –depth theoretically informed empirical analysis of the efforts to introduce computer-based health information systems in disadvantaged health districts of Mozambique ,Situated Within the umbrella of the Health information Systems program (HISP) action research framework, the ...
