Background: A legacy of colonial rule coupled with a devastating 16-year civil war through 1992 left Mozambique economically impoverished just as the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic swept over southern Africa in the late 1980s. The crumbling Mozambican health care sys...
A Vigilância Epidemiológica do HIV‐SIDA, permite conhecer diferentes aspectos
relacionados à distribuição e à disseminação da infecção pelo HIV. Dados obtidos por
estes estudos são de fundamental importância para definir programas de prevenção e
controle desta doença. Neste trabalho são...
Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) has been used for several decades as genetic markers for analyzing diversity of gene pool origin, platelet transfusion, tissue transplantation, disease susceptibility or resistance, and forensic and anthropological studies. In the present study, the allele and haplotype freq...
Background: Resistant virus may be selected by sub-optimal control of HIV-1 replication during antiretroviral treatment. The incidence and profile of resistance in children receiving World Health Organization-recommended treatment remains to be evaluated on a large scale.
Goals: Assessment of the frequen...
A gravidez na adolescência é um problema de saúde pública para todo o mundo e principalmente para os países em vias de desenvolvimento.
Este trabalho tem como objectivos: compreender as experiências e as percepções sobre a gravidez na adoloescência sobretudo as relacionadas com a decisão de l...
Malaria in Mozambique is one of the ten leading causes of morbidity and mortality. Malaria is responsible for up to 44% of all outpatient consultations, 57% of pediatric admissions and a leading cause of low birth weight in newborns. Consistent use of insecticide treated bed nets (ITNs) for malaria preve...
Objectives: To describe the prevalence, aetiology and prognostic implications of coexisting invasive bacterial disease in children admitted with severe malaria in a rural Mozambican Hospital. Methods: Retrospective study of data systematically collected from June 2003 to May 2007 in a rural Mozambican ho...
A presente parceria constitui mais uma peca chave para a melhoria da saude materno neonatal e infantil.varias pesquisas sobre mortalidade materna neonatal e infantil nos paises em desenvolvimento mostram que a melhoria dos cuiadodos de saudea mae e crianca durante agraviez parto pos parto tem reduzido de...