Resultados: 284

HIV retesting for pregnant and breastfeeding women across maternal child health services in Nampula, Mozambique

PLos ONE; 18 (3), 2023
Background: Repeat HIV testing during pregnancy and breastfeeding identifies women with incident infections, those living with HIV who have been lost to care, and infants at risk for HIV infection. We report data from repeat testing for women in maternal and child health (MCH) services at 10 health facil...

Managers’ and providers’ perspectives on barriers and facilitators for the implementation of differentiated service delivery models for HIV treatment in Mozambique: a qualitative study

J. int. aids soc; 26 (3), 2023
In 2018, Mozambique's Ministry of Health launched a guideline for a nationwide implementation of eight differentiated service delivery models to optimize HIV service delivery and achieve universal coverage of HIV care and treatment. The models were (1) Fast‐track, (2) Three‐month Antiretrovirals Disp...

Susceptibility antibiotic screening reveals high rates of multidrug resistance of Salmonella, Shigella and Campylobacter in HIV infected and uninfected patients from Mozambique

BMC infect. dis; 23 (225), 2023
Methods: We conducted antibiotic susceptibility testing on 157 stool isolates recovered from 129 patients aged between 0 and 80 years with diarrhea, including HIV infected (n = 68) and-uninfected individuals (n = 61), assisted at two health centers in Maputo city. The isolates comprised of 99 Salmonella,...

HIV-1 reservoir evolution in infants infected with clade C from Mozambique

Int J Infect Dis; (), 2023
With more than 1.7 million infected children worldwide, pediatric HIV-1 infection remains a global health challenge; in 2020 alone, current estimates suggest that more than 150,000 children were newly infected with HIV-1 [1]. Most of these children are infected through breastfeeding, but vertical mother-...

Mental health and ART adherence among adolescents living with HIV in Mozambique

AIDS care; 32 (2), 2023
Little is known about the mental health needs of adolescents living with HIV (ALWH) in Mozambique, including the potential relationship between mental health challenges and poor antiretroviral treatment (ART) adherence. We examined mental health problems (anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disord...

Enhancing retention in care in HIV-infected adolescents during COVID-19 in Mozambique: results from the DREAM program
Enhancing retention in care in HIV-infected adolescents during COVID-19 in Mozambique: results from the DREAM program

Introduction: Around 1,7 million adolescents aged 10-19 years worldwide are infected with HIV, 84% of them living in Sub-Saharan Africa. Mozambique is one of the countries with the highest prevalence of HIV in the world. According to UNAIDS, HIV services for adolescents should be tailored and specificall...

Health care services for survivors of gender-based violence: a community and clinic-based intervention in Zambézia province, Mozambique

AIDS Care; 35 (1), 2023
Moçambique introduziu directrizes para serviços integrados de violência baseada no género (VBG) em 2012. Em 2017, formámos prestadores de serviços em serviços empáticos e de apoio aos sobreviventes da VBG e introduzimos serviços domiciliários para sobreviventes que não têm acompanhamento. As ...

Demonstration project of a lay counselor delivered trans-diagnostic mental health intervention for newly diagnosed HIV patients in Mozambique

AIDS care; 35 (1), 2023
ABSTRACTCommon mental disorders (CMDs) are associated with poor HIV outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. The present study implemented a psychological therapy delivered in routine HIV care and examined its effects on HIV outcomes in Mozambique. The Common Elements Treatment Approach (CETA) was i...

Vozes silenciadas: vivências de pessoas que convivem com HIV na província de Gaza, Moçambique

OBJETIVO: No mundo, cerca de 16 milhões de mulheres vivem com HIV, muitas delas em idade reprodutiva. Esses níveis de infecção e as taxas de transmissão vertical ainda trazem grandes preocupações, devido à pouca intervenção terapêutica precoce em muitos países africanos. Em Moçambique, país...

Reasons for non-disclosure of HIV-Positive status to healthcare providers: a mixed methods study in Mozambique
Reasons for non-disclosure of HIV-Positive status to healthcare providers: a mixed methods study in Mozambique

BMC health serv. res.; 23 (1), 2023
Background: Non-disclosure of known HIV status by people living with HIV but undergoing HIV testing leads to waste of HIV testing resources and distortion of estimates of HIV indicators. In Mozambique, an estimated one-third of persons who tested positive already knew their HIV-positive status. To our kn...