Pimenta, Fabiana C;
Moiane, Benild;
Lessa, Fernanda C;
Venero, Anne-Kathryn L;
Moura, Iaci;
Larson, Shanda;
Massora, Sergio;
Chaúque, Alberto;
Tembe, Nelson;
Mucavele, Helio;
Verani, Jennifer R;
Whitney, Cynthia G;
Sigaúque, Betuel;
Carvalho, Maria G. S.
Background: Dried blood spots (DBS) have been proposed as potentially tool for detecting invasive bacterial diseases. Methods: We evaluated the use of DBS for S. pneumoniae and H. influenzae detection among children in Mozambique. Blood for DBS and nasopharyngeal (NP) swabs were collected from children w...
Sevene, espranca;
Shama, sumedha;
Munguambe, khatia;
Sacaor, charfudin;
Vala, anifa;
Macuacua, saliesio;
Boane, helena;
Arsenio, j mark;
Augusto, orvalho;
Bique, cassimo;
Bone, jeffrey;
Dusmmuir, dustin T;
Lee, tang;
Li, jing;
Macte, eusebio;
Singer, joel;
Wang, hannh l;
Payne, beth a;
Sidat, mohision;
Shennan, andrew h;
Thavana, carssimo;
Tu, domena k;
Vidlev, marianne;
Buhutta, zulfiquar;
Magge, laura a;
Dedelsezen, peter van.
Objectives: Pregnancy hypertension is the third leading cause of maternal mortality in Mozambique and contributes significantly to fetal and neonatal mortality. The objective of this trial was to assess whether task-sharing care might reduce adverse pregnancy outcomes related to delays in triage, transpo...
Hipertensão Induzida pela Gravidez/mortalidade,
Gestantes/etnologia,
Pré-Eclâmpsia/terapia,
Custos e Análise de Custo,
Moçambique/epidemiologia,
Pré-Eclâmpsia/mortalidade,
Mortalidade Infantil,
Agentes Comunitários de Saúde/organização & administração,
Características de Residência/estatística & dados numéricos,
Gravidez,
Cuidado Pré-Natal,
Hipertensão Induzida pela Gravidez
Introdução: Actualmente, os antibióticos constituem a classe de medicamentos mais consumidos no mundo. Apesar dos ganhos que o uso prudente de antibióticos possa ter na saúde dos indivíduos, a sua dispensa descontrolada e não apropriada representa uma ameaça grave à saúde pública, estando asso...
Introduction: With improved access to anti-retroviral therapy (ART) the focus of HIV treatment is changing to reducing chronic co-morbidities and their effects, but guidelines for HIV care in many African countries do not include screening for cardiac disease. Our study aimed to determine the pattern of ...
Inguane, Celso;
Sawadogo-Lewis, Talata;
Chaquisse, Eusébio;
Roberton, Timothy;
Ngale, Kátia;
Fernandes, Quinhas;
Dinis, Aneth;
Orvalho, Augusto;
Covele, Alfredo;
Hicks, Leecreesha;
Gremu, Artur;
Sherr, Kenneth.
The need for evidence-based decision-making in the health sector is well understood in the global health community. Yet, gaps persist between the availability of evidence and the use of that evidence. Most research on evidence-based decision-making has been carried out in higher-income countries, and mos...
High circular mobility creates vulnerability and elevates risk for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). We aim to explore knowledge, perceptions of risk, and sexual behaviors in relation to STIs/HIV, in Mozambican women involved in an informal cross border ...
Abílio, ana paula;
Obi, emmanuel;
Koenker, hannah;
Babalola, stella;
Saifodine, abuchahama;
Zulliger, rose;
Swamidoss, Isabel;
Leon, gabriel ponce de;
Alfai, Eunice;
Blaufuss, sean;
Olapeju, Bolanle;
Harig, hunter;
Kilian, albert.
Malaria prevention with long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) has seen a tremendous scale-up in sub-Saharan Africa in the last decade. To sustain this success, it is important to understand how long LLINs remain in the households and continue to protect net users, which is termed durability. This inform...
Cyclone Idai, which hit Mozambique in March 2019, was one of the worst climate-related natural disasters on record in the Southern Hemisphere causing massive destruction of housing and disruption to vital infrastructure including the electrical grid, communications and water supply. Almost two million pe...
Vacinas contra Cólera/administração & dosagem,
Cólera/epidemiologia,
Cólera/prevenção & controle,
Controle de Doenças Transmissíveis/estatística & dados numéricos,
Tempestades Ciclônicas,
Epidemias,
Monitoramento Epidemiológico,
Higiene,
Moçambique,
Saneamento,
Vacinação/estatística & dados numéricos,
Água
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a disorder characterized by high levels of blood glucose. Biochemically, it is classi-fied into type 1, type 2, and gestational diabetes. The factors associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus include obesity, seden-tary lifestyle and alcoholism. We investigated the effect of alco...
