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Communicative trust in therapeutic encounters: users’ experiences in public healthcare facilities and community pharmacies in Maputo, Mozambique

Soc. sci. med; 291 (114512), 2021
Interactions between healthcare users and providers are an essential but often problematic element in therapeutic processes. In many settings worldwide, there has been a general recognition of the importance of adopting care approaches that understand patients as active agents, moving away from tradition...

People's willingness and determinants to use selected tele-consultation public health services in Mozambique

Background: To achieve universal health coverage by 2030, sub-Saharan African countries are planning to develop large scale tele-consultation public health services. However, there is a lack of knowledge regarding the level of peoples’ willingness to use this kind of tele-health services. To address th...

Guião de oferta da proflaxia pré-exposição ao HIV, 2021
National Survey on Malaria Indicators (IIM) 2018

Dados globais do HIV indicam que em 2019, ocorreram cerca de 1.7 milhões de novas infecções pelo HIV e que 75.5 milhões de pessoas foram infectadas desde o início da epidemia á 4 décadas (Relatório ONUSIDA, 2020 ). Destas, 61% ocorreram na Africa sub-sahariana. Os resultados das estimativas 2021 ...

Triangulação da qualidade dos dados em mortes materna e neonatais
Triagunlation of data quality in maternal and neonatal deaths

A mortalidade materna é uma preocupação mundial que levou as Nações Unidas a definir a meta para a sua redução nos Objectivos de Desenvolvimento do Milénio (Redução da Mortalidade Materna em 3/4 em relação a 1990 e 2015) (WHO 2015), e reforçado nos Objectivos do Desenvolvimento Sustentável ...

Aceitabilidade da vacina contra o sars-cov-2: um inquerto exploratorio de avalicao rapida em mocambique
Acceptability of the sars-cov-2 vaccine: an exploratory rapid assessment survey in Mozambique

O novo coronavírus (SARS-CoV-2) causou uma pandemia que vem desestabilizando a saúde, economia e a circulação de indivíduos mundialmente. Os primeiros casos de COVID-19 foram detectados na China e declarada como pandemia em Março de 2020. Até o momento atingiu mais de 151 milhões de pessoas pelo ...

HIV Encephalopathy in ART-Naïve, Hospitalized Infants in Mozambique

Introduction: The neurodevelopmental impact of HIV infection in older children has been welldescribed, with characterization of HIV-associated encephalopathy (HIVE) and associated cognitive defects. HIVE is relatively common in older children who were vertically infected. The sparse literature on HIVE in...

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 Mozambique are known locally as agentes poliv...

Sistemas alimentares em Moçambique: Rumo a uma Política Alimentar Nacional
Food Systems in Mozambique: Towards a National Food Policy

Este relatório faz parte de um processo continental com o objectivo de desenvolver uma proposta de política pública alimentar africana. O processo é liderado a nível continental pela Aliança para a Soberania Alimentar em África (AFSA)¹, em parceria com a União Africana (UA). Neste âmbito, o pre...

Community-based progress indicators for prevention of mother-to-child transmission and mortality rates in HIV-exposed children in rural Mozambique

Background: Eliminating mother-to-child HIV-transmission (EMTCT) implies a case rate target of new pediatric HIV-infections< 50/100,000 live-births and a transmission rate < 5%. We assessed these indicators at community-level in Mozambique, where MTCT is the second highest globally.. Methods: A cross-sec...

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...