Resultados: 229

Bisexual and Bidirectional: Assessing the Potential for HIV Bridging in Mozambique

AIDS behav; 22 (7), 2018
African men who have sex with men (MSM) frequently, and often concurrently, have female partners, raising concerns about HIV sexual bridging. We explored potential HIV transmission in Mozambique from and to female partners of MSM focusing on preferred anal sex role and circumcision status. Data collected...

Pathways of care for HIV infected children in Beira, Mozambique: pre-post intervention study to assess impact of task shifting

Background: In 2013, Mozambique implemented task-shifting (TS) from clinical officers to maternal and child nurses to improve care for HIV positive children < 5 years old. A retrospective, pre-post intervention study was designed to evaluate effectiveness of a new pathway of care in a sample of Beira Dis...

Partners-based HIV treatment for seroconcordant couples attending antenatal and postnatal care in rural Mozambique: A cluster randomized trial protocol

Contemp. clin. trials; 71 (63), 2018
Background: In resource-limited rural settings, scale-up of services to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV has not been as effective as in better resourced urban settings. In sub-Saharan Africa, women often require male partner approval to access and remain engaged in HIV care. Our study will ...

HIV drug resistance patterns in pregnant women using next generation sequence in Mozambique

PLos ONE; 13 (5), 2018
Background: Few data on HIV resistance in pregnancy are available from Mozambique, one of the countries with the highest HIV toll worldwide. Understanding the patterns of HIV drug resistance in pregnant women might help in tailoring optimal regimens for prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV (...

Managing Advanced HIV Disease in a Public Health Approach
Managing Advanced HIV Disease in a Public Health Approach

Clin Infect Dis; 66 (2), 2018
Em 2017, a Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS) publicou diretrizes para o manejo da doença avançada pelo vírus da imunodeficiência humana (HIV) dentro de uma abordagem de saúde pública. Dados recentes sugerem que mais de um terço das pessoas que iniciam a terapêutica anti-retroviral (TARV) o fa...

Relatório da avaliação conjunta do plano estratégico e operacional, do programa nacional de controlo da tuberculose 2014-2018, do plano estratégico nacional de resposta ao hiv e sida 2016-2020 e do estabelecimento da linha de base das hepatites virais em moçambique
Report of the joint evaluation of the strategic and operational plan, the national tuberculosis control program 2014-2018, the national strategic plan for the response to hiv and aids 2016-2020 and the establishment of the viral hepatitis baseline in mozambique

O MISAU e o CNCS encomendaram uma revisão externa conjunta dos planos estratégicos dos programas nacionais de contro de ITS/HIV/SIDA e da Tuberculose (TB) bem como o estabelecimento da linha de base da resposta as hepatites virais em Moçambique. Esta avaliação foi liderada pela Organização Mundial...

Estimating risk factors for HIV infection among women in Mozambique using population-based survey data

The use of population-based survey data together with sound statistical methods can enhance better estimation of HIV risk factors and explain variations across subgroups of the population. The distribution and determinants of HIV infection in populations must be taken into consideration. We analysed data...

Guião Orientador Sobre Modelos Diferenciados de Serviços em Moçambique. Moçambique - 2018.
Guiding Guide on Differentiated Models in Mozambique. Mozambique - 2018

Em resposta ao plano de aceleração de TARV, registamos uma expansão do acesso aos cuidados e tratamento para HIV nos últimos anos. O Serviço Nacional de Saúde (SNS) com as suas limitações em recursos humanos e de infraestruturas, apresenta grandes desafios para oferecer serviços com a qualidade ...

HBV infection in untreated HIV-infected adults in Maputo, Mozambique
Correction: HBV infection in untreated HIV-infected adults in Maputo, Mozambique

PLos ONE; 12 (12), 2017
Background HIV/ HBV coinfected patients are at high risk of developing chronic HBV infection, liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. In Mozambique, where HIV prevalence is one of the highest in the world, HIV-infected patients are scarcely characterized in terms of HBV coinfection and 3TC-resistan...

Helios + Regulatory T cell frequencies are correlated with control of viral replication and recovery of absolute CD4 T cells counts in early HIV-1 infection

BMC immunol. (Online); 18 (1), 2017
Background: The acute phase of HIV infection is characterized by massive depletion of CD4 T cells, high viral plasma levels and pronounced systemic immune activation. Regulatory T cells (Tregs) have the potential to control systemic immune activation but also to suppress antigen specific T and B cell res...