Across rural sub-Saharan Africa, people living with HIV (PLHIV) commonly seek out treatment from traditional healers. We report on the clinical outcomes of a community health worker intervention adapted for traditional healers with insight into our results from qualitative interviews. We employed a pre-p...
Carlucci , james G;
Yu , zhihong;
González, purificación;
Bravo, magdalena;
Amorim, gustavo;
Cugara, cristina das zelicidades;
Guambe, helga;
Mucanhenga, jaime;
Silva, wilson;
Tique, josé a;
Alvim, maria fernanda sardella;
Graves, erin;
De Schacht, caroline;
Wester, C william.
Introduction: Mentor Mothers (MM) provide peer support to pregnant and postpartum women living with HIV (PPWH) and their infants with perinatal HIV exposure (IPE) throughout the cascade of prevention of vertical transmission (PVT) services. MM were implemented in Zambézia Province, Mozambique starting ...
Guinovart, Caterina;
Sigaúque, Betuel;
Bassat, Quique;
Loscertales, Mari Paz;
Nhampossa, Tacilta;
Acácio, Sozinho;
Machevo, Sónia;
Maculuve, Sónia;
Bambo, Gisela;
Mucavele, Hélio;
Soriano-Gabarró, Montse;
Saifodine, Abuchahama;
Nhacolo, Ariel;
Nhalungo, Delino;
Sacoor, Charfudin;
Saúte, Francisco;
Aponte, John J;
Menéndez, Clara;
Macete, Eusébio;
Alonso, Pedro L.
Most malaria burden estimates rely on modelling infection prevalence to case incidence data, with insufficient attention having been paid to the changing clinical presentation of severe disease and its relationship with changing transmission intensity. We present 20 years of longitudinal surveillance dat...
Perez-Saez, Javier;
Lessler, Justin;
Clee, Elisabeth;
Luquero, Francisco J;
Malembaka, Espior Bwenge;
Finger, Flávio;
Langa, José Paulo;
Yennan, Sebastian;
Zaitchik, Benjamin;
Azman, Andrew S.
Cholera remains a major threat in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where some of the highest case-fatality rates are reported. Knowing in what months and where cholera tends to occur across the continent could aid in improving efforts to eliminate cholera as a public health concern. However, largely due to the ...
Shuaib, Yassir, A;
Utpatel, Christian;
Kohl, Thomas, A;
Barilar, Ivan;
Diricks, Margo;
Ashraf, Nadia;
Wieler, Lothar H;
Kerubo, Glennah;
Mesfin, Eyob, A;
Diallo, Awa Ba;
Frank, Matthias;
Khan, Sadiq, N.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) Lineage 3 (L3) strains are abundant in world regions with the highest tuberculosis burden. To investigate the population structure and the global diversity of this major lineage, we analyzed a dataset comprising 2682 L3 strains from 38 countries over 5 continents...
Munoz, Flor M;
Cutland, Clare L;
Jones, Christine E;
Kampmann, Beate;
Khalil, Asma;
Sevene, Esperança;
Stergachis, Andy;
Swamy, Geeta K;
Voss, Gerald;
Meulen, Ajoke Sobanjo-Ter.
Disease X represents a yet unknown human pathogen which has potential to cause a serious international epidemic or pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has illustrated that despite being at increased risk of severe disease compared with the general population, pregnant women were left behind in the developmen...
Introdução: A Tuberculose (TB) continua sendo um grande problema de saúde pública em Moçambique, constando na lista das principais causas de morte nas nossas unidades sanitárias. A Organização Mundial de Saúde (OMS) recomenda o tratamento profiláctico com isoniazida (TPI) em pessoas infectadas ...
Undernutrition, anemia, and intestinal parasitic infections are public health problems in Angola, especially in pre-school children. We analyzed binary data from a longitudinal four-arm randomizedparallel trial conducted in Bengo Province, northern Angola, over the course of two years, with seven follow-...
Síndrome de Emaciação/parasitologia,
Anemia/diagnóstico,
Transtornos da Nutrição Infantil/tratamento farmacológico,
Angola/epidemiologia,
Transtornos do Crescimento/terapia,
Anemia/etiologia,
Albendazol/uso terapêutico,
Doenças Inflamatórias Intestinais/parasitologia,
Doenças Parasitárias/diagnóstico,
Parasitos,
Diarreia/tratamento farmacológico
Mozambique antiretroviral therapy is a database used to monitor patients receiving antiretroviral treatment (ART). This study's objective was to evaluate the system for the purpose to monitor patients receiving ART. data from 287,052 patients who started ART from January to December 2017 were verified, a...
Grau-Pujol, berta;
Cano, jorge;
Soler, helena martí;
Casellas, aina;
Giorgi, Emanuele;
Saute, francisco;
Nhacolo, ariel;
Giné, ricard;
Quintó, llorenç;
Sacoor, charfudin;
Muñoz, jose.
Background: Impact evaluation of most water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions in health are user-centered. However, recent research discussed WASH herd protection - community WASH coverage could protect neighboring households. We evaluated the effect of water and sanitation used in the househo...
