Resultados: 60

Characterizing and mapping the spatial variability of HIV risk among adolescent girls and young women: A cross-county analysis of population-based surveys in Eswatini, Haiti, and Mozambique

PLos ONE; 16 (12), 2021
Background: To stem the HIV epidemic among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW), prevention programs must target services towards those most at risk for HIV. This paper investigates approaches to estimate HIV risk and map the spatial heterogeneity of at-risk populations in three countries: Eswatini, H...

Characterizing and mapping the spatial variability of HIV risk among adolescent girls and young women: A cross-county analysis of population-based surveys in Eswatini, Haiti, and Mozambique

PLos ONE; 16 (12), 2021
Background: To stem the HIV epidemic among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW), prevention programs must target services towards those most at risk for HIV. This paper investigates approaches to estimate HIV risk and map the spatial heterogeneity of at-risk populations in three countries: Eswatini, H...

Pesquisa de implementação para melhoria de cuidados em oncologia cirúrgica no departamento de cirurgias do hospital central de Maputo
Research to improve surgical oncological care on the surgical department, maputo central hospital

Objetivo: No sentido de avaliar e implementar um programa de qualidade nos cuidados especializados prestados aos doentes oncológicos, que necessitam de intervenções cirúrgicas no Departamento Cirúrgico do Hospital Central de Maputo (HCM), o maior hospital de Moçambique, conduzimos a presente invest...

Adherence to COVID-19 Preventive Measures in Mozambique: Two Consecutive Online Surveys

We assessed adherence to government recommendations implemented shortly after the introduction of COVID-19 in Mozambique in March 2020, through two online cross-sectional surveys in April and June 2020. We quantified adherence to preventive measures by a composite score comprising of five measures: physi...

Evaluation of prevention of mother-to-child transmission national health information system for HIV/AIDS, in southern region of Mozambique, April to November 2016

Pan Afr. med. j; 38 (26), 2021
Mozambique has a generalized HIV epidemic, among pregnant women, HIV prevalence is estimated at 15.8% with a vertical transmission rate of 14%, more than double global targets. We evaluate electronic national health information system (SIS-MA) performance to verify if the data flow procedures met its obj...

Malaria prevention knowledge, attitudes, and practices in Zambezia Province, Mozambique

Malar. j. (Online); 20 (293), 2021
Background: In Mozambique, socio-economic and cultural factors influence the wide adoption of disease preventive measures that are relevant for malaria control strategies to promote early recognition of disease, prompt seeking of medical care, sleeping under insecticide-treated nets (ITNs), and taking i...

Community health worker knowledge, attitudes and practices towards COVID-19: Learnings from an online cross-sectional survey using a digital health platform, UpSCALE, in Mozambique

PLoS One; 16 (2), 2021
Healthcare workers (HCWs) are at the frontline of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID 19) pandemic response, yet there is a paucity of literature on their knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) in relation to the pandemic. Community Health Workers (CHWs) in Mozam bique are known locally as agentes poli...

Covariates and spatial interpolation of hiv screening in mozambique: insight from the 2015 aids indicator survey

Examinamos os fatores associados ao rastreamento do vírus da imunodeficiência humana (HIV) e desenvolvemos um mapa de superfície de prevalência de rastreamento de HIV usando técnicas de interpolação espacial para identificar as áreas geográficas com as maiores e menores taxas de rastreamento de ...

Geostatistical analysis and mapping of malaria risk in children of Mozambique

PLos ONE; 15 (11), 2020
Malaria remains one of the most prevalent infectious diseases in the tropics and subtropics, andMozambiqueisnotanexception. To design geographically targeted and effective intervention mechanisms of malaria, an up-to-date map that shows the spatial distribution of malaria is needed. This study analyzed 2...

HIV prevalence and TB in migrant miners communities of origin in Gaza Province, Mozambique: the need for increasing awareness and knowledge

PLos ONE; 15 (4), 2020
As part of ongoing efforts to generate evidence needed on HIV and tuberculosis (TB) to inform policies and programs aimed to improve the health outcomes of migrants and communities affected by migration and mining, a preliminary investigation was conducted through a biological and behavioral (BBS) approa...