Resultados: 65

Implementing malaria control in South Africa, Eswatini and southern Mozambique during the COVID-19 pandemic

S. Afr. med. j; 110 (11), 2020
The COVID-19 global pandemic reached South Africa (SA), Mozambique and Eswatini in March 2020.[1] Since then an exponential increase in SARS-CoV-2 infections has severely stretched SA’s healthcare system, especially in terms of in-hospital treatment of severe cases. The impact of COVID-19 in Mozambique...

Saberes sobre a malária: um estudo qualitativo baseado no Distrito do Lago, Província de Niassa (Moçambique – África)
Knowledge about malaria: a qualitative study based in the District of Lago District, Niassa Province (Mozambique - Africa)

Vittalle; 32 (3), 2020
Em Moçambique a malária é responsável por 60% de todas as admissões pediátricas, por 40% do total de consultas e ainda por 30% de todas as mortes registadas nos hospitais (2).Com vista a reverter esse cenário, o governo moçambicano, por intermédio do Programa Nacional de Combate à Malária (PCN...

Targeting Pregnant Women for Malaria Surveillance

Trends parasitol; 35 (9), 2019
Women attending antenatal care (ANC) are a generally healthy, easy-access population, contributing valuable data for infectious disease surveillance at the community level. ANC-based malaria surveillance would provide a routine measure of the malaria burden in pregnancy, which countries lack, whilst pote...

Differential patterns of disease and injury in Mozambique: New perspectives from a pragmatic, multicenter, surveillance study of 7809 emergency presentations

PLOS ONE; 14 (7), 2019
There is a paucity of primary data to understand the overall pattern of disease and injuries as well as related health-service utilization in resource-poor countries in Africa. To generate reliable and robust data describing the pattern of emergency presentations attributable to communicable disease (CD)...

Setting the scene and generating evidence for malaria elimination in Southern Mozambique

Malar. j. (Online); 18 (190), 2019
Mozambique has historically been one of the countries with the highest malaria burden in the world. Starting in the 1960s, malaria control efforts were intensified in the southern region of the country, especially in Maputo city and Maputo province, to aid regional initiatives aimed to eliminate malaria ...

Spatio-temporal modelling of weekly malaria incidence in children under 5 for early epidemic detection in Mozambique
Spatio-temporal modelling of weekly malaria incidence in children under 5 for early epidemic detection in Mozambique

Sci. rep; 8 (1), 2018
Malaria is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in Mozambique. We present a malaria early warning system (MEWS) for Mozambique informed by seven years of weekly case reports of malaria in children under 5 years of age from 142 districts. A spatio-temporal model was developed based on explanatory c...

Mapping and Modelling Malaria Risk Areas Using Climate, Socio-Demographic and Clinical Variables in Chimoio, Mozambique

Background: Malaria continues to be a major public health concern in Africa. Approximately 3.2 billion people worldwide are still at risk of contracting malaria, and 80% of deaths caused by malaria are concentrated in only 15 countries, most of which are in Africa. These high-burden countries have achiev...

Efficacy and safety of artemether-lumefantrine for the treatment of uncomplicated falciparum malaria at sentinel sites in Mozambique, 2015

Acta trop.; 171 (1), 2017
he resistance of Plasmodium falciparum to anti-malarial drugs continues to challenge malaria control. We assessed the therapeutic efficacy and safety of artemether-lumefantrine (AL), the first-line treatment of uncomplicated P. falciparum malaria, in children under five years of age in Mozambique. We con...

Modelling the influence of climate on malaria occurrence in Chimoio Municipality, Mozambique

Parasit. vectors; 10 (1), 2017
Background: Mozambique was recently ranked fifth in the African continent for the number of cases of malaria. In Chimoio municipality cases of malaria are increasing annually, contrary to the decreasing trend in Africa. As malaria transmission is influenced to a large extent by climatic conditions, model...

Prevalence and determinants of malaria among children in Zambézia Province, Mozambique

Malar. j. (Online); 16 (108), 2017
Background: Malaria is the leading cause of death among children in Mozambique. Prevalence and factors associated with malaria are not well studied among children in rural Zambézia Province. Whether prevalence of malaria varies across diverse districts within the province is unknown. Methods: A cross...