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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...

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...

Rotavirus disease burden pre-vaccine introduction in young children in Rural Southern Mozambique, an area of high HIV prevalence

PLoS One; 16 (4), 2021
Rotavirus vaccines have been adopted in African countries since 2009, including Mozambique (2015). Disease burden data are needed to evaluate the impact of rotavirus vaccine. We report the burden of rotavirus-associated diarrhea in Mozambique from the Global Enteric Multicenter Study (GEMS) before vaccin...

Quantifying the gender gap in the HIV care cascade in southern Mozambique: We are missing the men

PLoS One; 16 (2), 2021
Uptake of HIV testing and antiretroviral therapy (ART) services during antenatal care (ANC) in rural Mozambique is disappointing. To nurture supportive male engagement in ANC services, we partnered with traditional birth attendants and trained a new type of male-to-male community health agent, "Male Cham...