Resultados: 40

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...

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...

Characteristics of adolescents aged 15-19 years living with vertically and horizontally acquired HIV in Nampula, Mozambique

PLoS One; 16 (4), 2021
Background: Adolescents living with HIV (ALHIV) 15-19 years of age are a growing proportion of all people living with HIV globally and the population includes adolescents with vertically acquired HIV (AVH) and behaviorally acquired HIV (ABH). Methods: We conducted a survey to measure sociodemographic ch...

Relatório semestral 2020: relatório semestral das actividades relacionadas ao HIV/SIDA

Na estrutura do Ministério da Saúde, o Programa Nacional de Controlo de ITS-HIV/SIDA (PNC ITS-HIV/SIDA) representa a unidade técnica que assegura à gestão dos serviços de saúde relacionados ao HIV, sendo sua missão coordenar, regulamentar e prestar cuidados e tratamento às pessoas vivendo ...

Patterns of cardiovascular risk and disease in HIV-positive adults on anti-retroviral therapy in Mozambique

Introduction: With improved access to anti-retroviral therapy (ART) the focus of HIV treatment is changing to reducing chronic co-morbidities and their effects, but guidelines for HIV care in many African countries do not include screening for cardiac disease. Our study aimed to determine the pattern of ...

Loss to follow-up and opportunities for reengagement in HIV care in rural Mozambique. A prospective cohort study

Medicine journal; 99 (6), 2020
Patients lost to follow-up (LTFU) over the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) cascade have poor clinical outcomes and contribute to onward HIV transmission. We assessed true care outcomes and factors associated with successful reengagement in patients LTFU in southern Mozambique. Newly diagnosed HIV-posi...

Compromise of Second-Line Antiretroviral Therapy Due to High Rates of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Drug Resistance in Mozambican Treatment-Experienced Children With Virologic Failure

Background: Virologic failure (VF) is highly prevalent in sub-Saharan African children on antiretroviral therapy (ART) and is often associated with human immunodeficiency virus drug resistance (DR). Most children still lack access to routine viral load (VL) monitoring for early identification of treatmen...

Procedimento operacional padrão para oferta de apoio psicossocial e prevenção positiva (apss e pp) no âmbito da emergência do Covid-19

Procedimento operacional padrão para oferta de apoio psicossocial e prevenção positiva (apss e pp) no âmbito da emergência do Covid-19...

HIV-exposed infant follow-up in Mozambique: formative research findings for the design of a cluster randomized controlled trial to improve testing and ART initiation

Background: Early infant diagnosis (EID) of HIV-exposed and initiation of HIV-positive infants on anti-retroviral therapy (ART) requires a well-coordinated cascade of care. Loss-to-follow-up (LTFU) can occur at multiple steps and effective EID is impeded by human resource constraints, difficulty with pat...

National HIV testing and diagnosis coverage in sub-Saharan Africa: a new modeling tool for estimating the 'first 90' from program and survey data

AIDS (Lond.); 33 (3), 2019
HIV testing services (HTS) are a crucial component of national HIV responses. Learning one's HIV diagnosis is the entry point to accessing life-saving antiretroviral treatment and care. Recognizing the critical role of HTS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) launched the 90-90-90 tar...