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Community-acquired bacteremia among HIV-infected and HIV-exposed uninfected children hospitalized with fever in Mozambique

Background: Bacteremia is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Children infected with HIV present with patterns of bacteremia generally associated with poor prognosis. In Mozambique, data on bacteremia are sparce. Methods: We conducted an observational study of HIV-infected and HIV-expose...

Annual home-based HIV testing in the Chókwè Health Demographic Surveillance System, Mozambique, 2014 to 2019: serial population-based survey evaluation

J. int. aids soc; 24 (7), 2021
Introduction: WHO recommends implementing a mix of community and facility testing strategies to diagnose 95% of persons living with HIV (PLHIV). In Mozambique, a country with an estimated 506,000 undiagnosed PLHIV, use of home-based HIV testing services (HBHTS) to help achieve the 95% target has not been...

Acompanhamento clínico e laboratorial dos pacientes vih colocados em modelos diferenciados para cuidados e tratamento, nampula-moçambique, 2020
Clinical and laboratory monitoring of vih patients placed in differentiated models for care and treatment nampula-Mozambique, 2020

Em Moçambique vivem cerca de 2 milhões de pessoas com a infeção pelo Vírus de Imunodeficiência Humana, o que corresponde a uma taxa de prevalência de 13.5%. Face ao aumento dos pacientes em tratamento antirretroviral, o modelo clássico, em que o atendimento é mensal, tornou-se insustentável par...

High Fecal Contamination and High Levels of Antibiotic-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae in Water Consumed in the City of Maputo, Mozambique

In the city of Maputo, Mozambique, food and water are often sold on the streets. Street water is packaged, distributed, and sold not paying attention to good hygienic practices, and its consumption is often associated with the occurrence of diarrheal diseases. Coincidentally, the increase of diarrheal di...

Therapeutic Borderlands: Austerity, Maternal HIV Treatment, and the Elusive End of AIDS in Mozambique

Med. anthropol. q; 35 (2), 2021
"End of AIDS" requires ambitious testing, treatment, and adherence benchmarks, like UNAIDS' "90-90-90 by 2020." Mozambique's efforts to improve essential maternal/infant antiretroviral treatment (ART) exposes how austerity-related health system short-falls impede public HIV/AIDS service-delivery and hind...

Relatório: II Conferência científica sobre a covid-19
Report: 2nd scientific conference on covid-19

Desde o seu primeiro reporte na China, em Dezembro de 2019, o SARS-CoV-2 conduziu ao estabe lecimento de diversas medidas visando o controlo da pandemia da COVID-19 em várias nações, entre as quais destacam-se as restrições na circulação de pessoas ao nível doméstico e internacional, o distancia...

Blood pressure thresholds in pregnancy for identifying maternal and infant risk: a secondary analysis of Community-Level Interventions for Pre-eclampsia (CLIP) trial data

Lancet Glob. Health; 9 (8), 2021
Background: Blood pressure measurement is a marker of antenatal care quality. In well resourced settings, lower blood pressure cutoffs for hypertension are associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes. We aimed to study the associations between blood pressure thresholds and adverse outcomes and the diagnos...

Traditional healers as client advocates in the HIV-endemic region of maputo, mozambique: results from a qualitative study

Sahara J (Online); 18 (1), 2021
Traditional healers are commonly utilised throughout sub-Saharan Africa instead of - and in concert with - biomedical facilities. Traditional healers are trusted providers and prominent community members and could be important partners in improving engagement with HIV services in endemic contexts. Our st...

Cyclone Idai as a Trigger for Pellagra Outbreak in Nhamatanda, Mozambique: A Case-Control Study

Am. j. trop. med. hyg; 108 (8), 2021
In mid-June 2019, 3 months after cyclone Idai landfall in Mozambique, health authorities of Nhamatanda district reported an outbreak of Pellagra. Applying a mixed-method protocol, we carried out an investigation to characterize cases of pellagra, identify the associated factors for the outbreak using a c...

Adolescent, Pregnant, and HIV-Infected: Risk of Adverse Pregnancy and Perinatal Outcomes in Young Women from Southern Mozambique

Jpn. j. clin. med; 10 (8), 2021
Sub-Saharan Africa concentrates the burden of HIV and the highest adolescent fertility rates. However, there is limited information about the impact of the interaction between adolescence and HIV infection on maternal health in the region. Data collected prospectively from three clinical trials conducted...