Resultados: 438

Prevalence and risk factors of porcine cysticercosis in Angónia district, Mozambique

Plos negl. trop. dis; 4 (2), 2010
Taenia solium is an important zoonosis in many developing countries. Cysticercosis poses a serious public health risk and incurs sizeable economic losses to pig production. Because data on the epidemiology of porcine cysticercosis in Mozambique are scarce, the present study was conducted to determine the...

A quality management systems approach for CD4 testing in resource-poor settings

Am. j. clin. pathol; 134 (4), 2010
Quality assurance (QA) is a systematic process to monitor and improve clinical laboratory practices. The fundamental components of a laboratory QA program include providing a functional and safe laboratory environment, trained and competent personnel, maintained equipment, adequate supplies and reagents,...

Sociocultural and epidemiological aspects of HIV/AIDS in Mozambique

Background: A legacy of colonial rule coupled with a devastating 16-year civil war through 1992 left Mozambique economically impoverished just as the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic swept over southern Africa in the late 1980s. The crumbling Mozambican health care sys...

Análise da prevalência de HIV em mulheres grávidas de moçambique (2001‐2007)
Analysis of HIV prevalence in pregnant women in mozambique (2001-2007)Analysis of HIV prevalence in pregnant women in Mozambique (2001-2007)

A Vigilância Epidemiológica do HIV‐SIDA, permite conhecer diferentes aspectos relacionados à distribuição e à disseminação da infecção pelo HIV. Dados obtidos por estes estudos são de fundamental importância para definir programas de prevenção e controle desta doença. Neste trabalho são...

Estudo de polimorfismo de genes PKLR e VDR na população de Moçambique
polymorphism study FOR VDR gene and the population of Mozambique

As doenças infecciosas constituem um dos principais problemas de saúde no continente Africano, especialmente na África Subsariana, da qual Moçambique faz parte. A participação de fatores genéticos na susceptibilidade dos humanos às doenças infecciosas é um fato. A identificação de marcadores ...

Co-infection by human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and human T cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1): does immune activation lead to a faster progression to AIDS?

BMC infect. dis; 9 (221), 2009
Background: Recent data have shown that HTLV-1 is prevalent among HIV positive patients in Mozambique, although the impact of HTLV-1 infection on HIV disease progression remains controversial. Our aim was to determine the phenotypic profile of T lymphocytes subsets among Mozambican patients co-infected b...

Efficacy of sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine with or without artesunate for the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in southern Mozambique: a randomized controlled trial

Malar. j. (Online); 8 (141), 2009
Background: An artemisinin-based combination therapy, artesunate (AS) plus sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP), was compared to SP monotherapy to provide evidence of further treatment options in southern Mozambique. Methods: Between 2003 and 2005, 411 patients over one year and 10 kg with uncomplicated Plasm...

Clinico-pathological discrepancies in the diagnosis of causes of maternal death in sub-Saharan Africa: retrospective analysis

PloS med; 6 (2), 2009
Background: Maternal mortality is a major public-health problem in developing countries. Extreme differences in maternal mortality rates between developed and developing countries indicate that most of these deaths are preventable. Most information on the causes of maternal death in these areas is based ...

A 10 year study of the cause of death in children under 15 years in Manhiça, Mozambique

Approximately 46 million of the estimated 60 million deaths that occur in the world each year take place in developing countries. Further, this mortality is highest in Sub-Saharan Africa, although causes of mortality in this region are not well documented. The objective of this study is to describe the m...

Cost-effectiveness of malaria intermittent preventive treatment in infants (IPTi) in Mozambique and the United Republic of Tanzania

Bull. W.H.O. (Online); 87 (2), 2009
Objective: To estimate the cost-effectiveness of malaria intermittent preventive treatment in infants (IPTi) using sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP). Methods: In two previous IPTi trials in Ifakara (United Republic of Tanzania) and Manhiça (Mozambique), SP was administered three times to infants before 9 m...