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...
The antimicrobial susceptibility and mechanisms of resistance of 109 Shigella and 40 Salmonella isolates from children with diarrhea in southern Mozambique were assessed. The susceptibility to seven antimicrobial agents was tested by disk diffusion, and mechanisms of resistance were searched by PCR or co...
A high prevalence of G12 rotavirus strains has previously been reported in southern Mozambique. In this study, the full genomes of five Mozambican G12 strains were determined directly from stool using an Illumina Miseq platform. One sample (0060) contained an intergenogroup co-infection of a G12P[8] Wa-l...
A igualdade de genero na sude constititui um dos pilares de justica social : o termonetro que mede quao compremetido o sistema de saude esta com a luta contra todo o tipo de discriminacao social entre mulheres e homem.......
O Governo de Moçambique através dos Ministérios da Função Pública (MFP), da Saúde (MISAU) e do Conselho Nacional de Combate ao HIV e SIDA (CNCS) desencadeou o processo de elaboração da Estratégia de combate ao HIV e SIDA na Função Pública com vista a redimensionar a resposta ao HIV e SIDA na...
Background: Although community-acquired bacteremia is an important cause of childhood mortality in Africa, recognition of disease burden and potential impact of bacterial vaccines is limited. ethods: Blood cultures for bacterial pathogens were conducted systematically among children <15 years of age admi...
Objective: To estimate the cost-effectiveness of malaria intermittent preventive treatment in infants (IPTi) using sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP). Methods: In two previous IPTi trials in Ifakara (United Republic of Tanzania) and Manhiça (Mozambique), SP was administered three times to infants before 9 m...