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Plano estrategico Multissectorial de prevenção e controlo de doenças não transmissíveis
Multisectoral strategic plan for the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases

A morte prematura por Doenças Não Transmissíveis (DNTs), continua a ser um dos principais desafios para o desenvolvimento a nível global, ceifando por ano perto de 15 milhões de vidas em idades compreendidas entre 30 e 70 anos. Moçambique não permanece inócuo pois já é notável a transição ep...

Factores associados ao ganho de peso gestacional e aos resultados da gravidez das puérperas atendidas na consulta pós-parto do hospital distrital da manhiça, 2019
Factors associated with gestational weight gain and pregnancy outcomes of puerperal women seen in the postpartum consultation at manhiça dstrict hospital, 2019

O ganho de peso gestacional excessivo ou insuficiente é considerado como um factor de risco para a gestante e ao feto podendo ser influenciado por vários factores dentre eles: sócio-demográficos, clínicos, estilos de vida e obstétricos. Este estudo tinha como objectivo principal determinar o ganho ...

Pharmacists' practices for non-prescribed antibiotic dispensing in Mozambique

Background: Antibiotics are the most frequently used medicines worldwide with most of the countries defining these as prescription-only medicines. Though, dispensing non-prescribed antibiotics represent one of the chief causal factors to the irrational use of antibiotics that paves the way to the develop...

Interpersonal reactivity index adaptation among expectant seroconcordant couples with HIV in Zambézia Province, Mozambique

BMC psychology; 8 (90), 2020
The ability to understand another’s emotions and act appropriately, empathy, is an important mediator of relationship function and health intervention fidelity. We adapted the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) – an empathy scale – among seroconcordant expectant couples with HIV in the Homens par...

The Community-Level Interventions for Pre-eclampsia (CLIP) cluster randomised trials in Mozambique, Pakistan, and India: an individual participant-level meta-analysis

Lancet; 396 (10250), 2020
To overcome the three delays in triage, transport and treatment that underlie adverse pregnancy outcomes, we aimed to reduce all-cause adverse outcomes with community-level interventions targeting women with pregnancy hypertension in three low-income countries. Methods: In this individual participant-lev...

Molecular epidemiology of rotavirus a strains pre- and post-vaccine (rotarix®) introduction in mozambique, 2012–2019: emergence of genotypes g3p[4] and g3p[8]

PloS pathog; 9 (), 2020
Group A rotavirus (RVA) remains the most important etiological agent associated with severe acute diarrhea in children. Rotarix® monovalent vaccine was introduced into Mozambique’s Expanded Program on Immunization in September 2015. In the present study, we report the diversity and prevalence of rotav...

Whole genome characterization and evolutionary analysis of g1p[8] rotavirus a strains during the pre- and post-vaccine periods in mozambique (2012–2017)

PloS pathog; 9 (), 2020
Mozambique introduced the rotarix® vaccine (gsk biologicals, rixensart, belgium) into the na-tional immunization program in september 2015. Although g1p[8] was one of the most prevalent genotypes between 2012 and 2017 in mozambique, no complete genomes had been sequenced to date. here we report whole ge...

A multiphase program for malaria elimination in southern Mozambique (the Magude project): A before-after study

PloS med; 17 (8), 2020
Background: Malaria eradication remains the long-term vision of the World Health Organization (WHO). However, whether malaria elimination is feasible in areas of stable transmission in sub-Saharan Africa with currently available tools remains a subject of debate. This study aimed to evaluate a multiphase...

Discordant retention of HIV-infected mothers and children: Evidence for a family-based approach from Southern Mozambique

Medicine (Baltimore); 99 (32), 2020
It is often assumed that children and their caregivers either stay in care together or discontinue together, but data is lacking on caregiver–child retention concordance. We sought to describe the pattern of care among a cohort of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected children and mothers enrolle...

Covariates and spatial interpolation of hiv screening in mozambique: insight from the 2015 aids indicator survey

Examinamos os fatores associados ao rastreamento do vírus da imunodeficiência humana (HIV) e desenvolvemos um mapa de superfície de prevalência de rastreamento de HIV usando técnicas de interpolação espacial para identificar as áreas geográficas com as maiores e menores taxas de rastreamento de ...