Resultados: 1316

Calidad de atención obstétrica en los servicios de salud reproductiva en las provincias de cabo delgado, inhambane, y zambezia. Mozambique: 2006
Obstetric attention quality of reproductive health services in the provinces of Cabo Delgado, Inhambane and Zambezia: 2006

RESUMEN Objetivo: determinar la calidad de atención obstétrica de los servicios de salud reproductiva, en relación a la estructura, proceso y resultados en las provincias de Cabo Delgado, Inhambane y Zambezia de la república de Mozambique en el año 2006. Material y método: Una muestra de 49 supervi...

Mozambique 2008: HIV/AIDS TRAC Study Among Men and Women Aged 15-35 in Sofala. First Round.
Mozambique 2008: HIV/AIDS TRAC Study Among Men and Women Aged 15-35 in Sofala. First Round

In 2004, PSI conducted the first country-wide TRaC (Tracking Results Continuously) study for Condoms, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), and Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT). The current study is the first TRaC study for HIV interventions and was conducted in three provinces: Gaza,...

Contribuição para o estudo de resistência aos antimaláricos e análise de marcadores moleculares de Plasmodium falciparum e do hospedeiro humano, em Maputo, Moçambique
Contribution to the study of antimalarial resistance and analysis of molecular markers of Plasmodium falciparum and the human host, in Maputo, Mozambique

A malária é de longe a doença parasitária mais importante em Moçambique, constituindo um grave problema de saúde pública no País. Apesar de se considerar que um diagnóstico atempado e um tratamento correcto são os elementos básicos para um programa de controlo da malária bem sucedido, nas úl...

Safety of the RTS, S/AS02A malaria vaccine in Mozambican children during a Phase IIb trial
Safety of the RTS,S/AS02A malaria vaccine in Mozambican children during a Phase IIb trial

Vaccine; 26 (2), 2008
RTS,S/AS02A is a pre-erythrocytic vaccine candidate based on the Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite surface antigen and is currently the most advanced malaria vaccine candidate in development. A proof of concept phase IIb trial of the RTS,S/AS02A in Mozambican children aged 1-4 years determined a vac...

Spontaneous adverse drug reaction reporting in rural districts of Mozambique

Drug saf; 31 (10), 2008
Background: The roll out of various public health programmes involving mass administration of medicines calls for the deployment of responsive pharmacovigilance systems to permit identification of signals of rare or even common adverse reactions. In developing countries in Africa, these systems are mostl...

Safety of the RTS, S/AS02D candidate malaria vaccine in infants living in a highly endemic area of Mozambique: a double blind randomised controlled phase I/IIb trial

Lancet; 370 (9598), 2007
Background: Malaria remains a leading global health problem that requires the improved use of existing interventions and the accelerated development of new control methods. We aimed to assess the safety, immunogenicity, and initial efficacy of the malaria vaccine RTS,S/AS02D in infants in Africa. Methods...

Epidemiology and clinical presentation of shigellosis in children less than five years of age in rural Mozambique

Pediatr. infect. dis. j; 26 (11), 2007
Rectal swabs were collected from 1354 children <5 years of age with diarrhea attending Manhiça District Hospital and from 227 healthy community controls. Shigellosis incidence was high among children aged 12-47 months (488.4/10(5) child-years at risk). Fever and dysentery were prominent clinical finding...

Varying efficacy of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in infants in two similar trials: public health implications

Malar. j. (Online); 6 (132), 2007
Background: Intermittent preventive treatment (IPTi) with sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) in infants resulted in different estimates of clinical malaria protection in two trials that used the same protocol in Ifakara, Tanzania, and Manhiça, Mozambique. Understanding the reasons for the discrepant result...

Plano estratégico do sector saúde 2007 -2012

Segundo a Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS), a Saúde é «um estado de completo bem estar físico, mental e social, e não somente ausência de doença ou de enfermidade». 2. A Saúde é um bem precioso que é necessário promover, preservar, manter e melhorar. O Artigo 89 da Constituição da Rep�...