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Dispensa de antibióticos no distrito de manhiça: conhecimentos e atitudes dos provedores formais e informais
Dispensing antibiotics in the district of manhiça: knowledge and attitudes of formal and informal providers formal and informal providers

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...

Challenges and facilitators to evidence-based decision-making for maternal and child health in Mozambique: district, municipal and national case studies
Challenges and facilitators to evidence-based decision-making for maternal and child health in Mozambique: district, municipal and national case studies

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 Mobility and STIs/HIV among Women Informal Cross Border Traders in Southern Mozambique: Exploring Knowledge, Risk Perception, and Sexual Behaviors

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 ...

Monitoring the durability of the long-lasting insecticidal nets magnet and royal sentry in three ecological zones of mozambique

Malar. j. (Online); 19 (209), 2020
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...

Mozambique’s response to cyclone Idai: how collaboration and surveillance with water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions were used to control a cholera epidemic

Infect. dis. poverty; 9 (68), 2020
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...

Factors associated with HIV serodiscordance among couples in Mozambique: Comparison of the 2009 INSIDA and 2015 IMASIDA surveys

PLos ONE; 15 (6), 2020
Recent studies suggest that a large proportion of new HIV-1 infections in mature epidemics occurs within discordant couples, making discordancy a major contributor to the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa. This paper aims at assessing changes over a five-year period (2009-2015) on the (risk) factors associate...

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Moçambique vive um ambiente de epidemia do HIV severa com 13,2% de adultos vivendo com o HIV (IMASIDA, 2015). As duas categorias populacionais que mais contribuem para o número de novos casos de HIV no país são as de pessoas em relações heterossexuais estáveis e as pessoas com múltiplas parcerias...

Avaliação do Plano de Aceleração da Resposta ao HIV e SIDA em Moçambique, 2013 – 2017

Moçambique vive um ambiente de epidemia do HIV severa com 13,2% de adultos vivendo com o HIV (IMASIDA, 2015). As duas categorias populacionais que mais contribuem para o número de novos casos de HIV no país são as de pessoas em relações heterossexuais estáveis e as pessoas com múltiplas parcerias...

Estratégia nacional de resposta comunitária à COVID-19

À 31 de Dezembro de 2019, a Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS), foi informada de um surto de doença respiratória na China, que afectava a cidade de Wuhan, província de Hubei. A causa do surto foi identifi¬cada como sendo um coronavírus recém-identificado e que passou a chamar-se de síndrome co...