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Long-term impacts of an urban sanitation intervention on enteric pathogens in children in Maputo city, Mozambique: study protocol for a cross-sectional follow-up to the Maputo Sanitation (MapSan) trial 5 years postintervention

BMJ Open; 13 (6), 2023
Introduction We previously assessed the effect of an onsite sanitation intervention in informal neighbourhoods of urban Maputo, Mozambique on enteric pathogen detection in children after 2 years of follow-up (Maputo Sanitation (MapSan) trial, ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02362932). We found significant reducti...

BOHEMIA a cluster randomized trial to assess the impact of an endectocide-based one health approach to malaria in Mozambique: baseline demographics and key malaria indicators

Malar. j. (Online); 22 (1), 2023
Many geographical areas of sub-Saharan Africa, especially in rural settings, lack complete and up-to-date demographic data, posing a challenge for implementation and evaluation of public health interventions and carrying out large-scale health research. A demographic survey was completed in Mopeia distri...

Impact and Cost-Effectiveness of Alternative Human Papillomavirus Vaccines for Preadolescent Girls in Mozambique: A Modelling Study

Mozambique has one of the highest rates of cervical cancer in the world. Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination was introduced in 2021. This study evaluated the health and economic impact of the current HPV vaccine (GARDASIL® hereafter referred to as GARDASIL-4) and two other vaccines (CECOLIN® and CER...

Tracking SARS-CoV-2 introductions in Mozambique using pandemic-scale phylogenies: a retrospective observational study

Lancet Glob. Health; 11 (6), 2023
From the start of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak, global sequencing efforts have generated an unprecedented amount of genomic data. Nonetheless, unequal sampling between high-income and low-income countries hinders the implementation of genomic surveillance systems at the global and local level. Filling the kno...

Satisfação e percepção dos utentes de serviços de saúde em Maputo sobre a qualidade do cuidado
Satisfaction aned perception of health service users in Maputo about the quality of car

O acesso aos serviços de saúde e a qualidade desses serviços estão intrinsecamente interligados e desempenham um papel fundamental na promoção do direito à saúde. Entretanto, o acesso à saúde não se restringe apenas à existência de serviços, mas é igualmente determinado por uma multiplicid...

Plano de comunicação e campanha da escola saudável 2023
Communication Plan and Healthy School Campaign 2023

A Escola Saudável (ES) é uma iniciativa no âmbito do projecto intitulado “Os determinantes sociais da saúde: a melhor estratégia contra a covid-19 em maputo (2021-2023)”, que está sendo implementado pela Medicus Mundi em parceria com o Pelouro de Saúde e Acção Social do Conselho Municipal de...

Proposta da actualização do plano estratégico de logística farmacêutica-PELF
Proposal to update the pharmaceutical logistics-PELF

O Plano Estratégico da Logística Farmacêutica, para o Sector Público, PELF, aprovado por despacho do Ministro da Saúde, datado de 12 de Dezembro de 2013, faz uma breve descrição da situação prevalecente até 2012, no sector público, nos domínios do Financiamento, Selecção, Quantificação, P...

HIV community index testing reaches proportionally more males than facility-based testing and is cost-effective: A study from Gaza province, Mozambique

PLos ONE; 18 (5), 2023
In Mozambique, 38.7% of women and 60.4% of men ages 15–59 years old living with HIV do not know their HIV status. A pilot home-based HIV counseling and testing program based on index cases in the community was implemented in eight districts in Gaza province (Mozambique). The pilot targeted the sexual p...

Microbiological assessment reveals that Salmonella, Shigella and Campylobacter infections are widespread in HIV infected and uninfected patients with diarrhea in Mozambique

Diarrhea is an important cause of hospitalizations in Mozambique. However, little attention has beenpaid to the impact HIV infection on the prevalence or clinical manifestations of enteric bacterial infections. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of Salmonella spp., Shigella spp. and Campylob...

Perfil epidemiologico dos obitos por virus de imunodeficiencia humanas/sida em mocambique durante ano de 2019
Epidemiological profile of human immunodeficiency virus/aids deaths in mozambique in 2019

Introdução: O HIV/SIDA é um problema de saúde pública no mundo. Em Moçambique a taxa de prevalência actualizada em 2021 foi 12,5%, e cerca de 27% e 11% das mortes em 2007 e 2019 que ocorreram em todas as idades estavam relacionados ao HIV. Foi objectivo deste trabalho analisar o perfil epidemioló...