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Manual para o manejo da tuberculose na criança, no adolescente e na mulher grávida

Estima-se que um terço da população mundial esteja infectada pelo Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Segundo a Organização Mundial de Saúde (OMS) em 2017, 10 milhões de pessoas de todas idades contraíram a Tuberculose (TB) no mundo, sendo que 1 milhão de casos afectaram crianças dos 0-14 anos e destes...

Setting the scene and generating evidence for malaria elimination in Southern Mozambique

Malar. j. (Online); 18 (190), 2019
Mozambique has historically been one of the countries with the highest malaria burden in the world. Starting in the 1960s, malaria control efforts were intensified in the southern region of the country, especially in Maputo city and Maputo province, to aid regional initiatives aimed to eliminate malaria ...

Informação, Educação e Comunicação em saúde para a população de homens que fazem sexo com homens em Moçambique

O objetivo do estudo foi investigar a promoção da Informação, Educação e Comunicação (IEC) em saúde para a população de homens que fazem sexo com homens (HSH) em áreas urbanas de Moçambique. Para isso, foram realizadas entrevistas com 122 HSH para conhecer suas necessidades de IEC em materia...

Projecting the lives saved by continuing the historical scale-up of child and maternal health interventions in Mozambique until 2030

Background: Over the past 20 years, Mozambique has achieved substantial reductions in maternal, neonatal, and child mortality. However, mortality rates are still high, and to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for maternal and child health, further gains are needed. One technique that can g...

Whole-genome characterization of G12 rotavirus strains detected in Mozambique reveals a co-infection with a GXP[14] strain of possible animal origin

J. gen. virol; 100 (6), 2019
Uma elevada prevalência de estirpes de rotavírus G12 foi anteriormente relatada no sul de Moçambique. Neste estudo, os genomas completos de cinco estirpes G12 moçambicanas foram determinados directamente a partir das fezes utilizando uma plataforma Illumina Miseq. Uma amostra (0060) continha uma coin...

Women's experience of intimate partner violence and uptake of Antenatal Care in Sofala, Mozambique

PLoS One; 14 (5), 2019
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is associated with negative physical and mental health outcomes. Although maternal health services, especially antenatal care (ANC), can act as a link to IPV resources, women experiencing IPV likely have reduced uptake of ANC due to social and emotional barriers. Poor ANC ...

Risk factors for death among children 0-59 months of age with moderate-to-severe diarrhea in Manhiça district, southern Mozambique

BMC infect. dis; 19 (1), 2019
In spite of very significant decreasing trends in the last three decades, childhood mortality remains unacceptably high globally, with 5.6 million children dying every year before reaching their 5th birthday, the majority of which in low and middle-income countries (LMIC) [1]. Diarrheal diseases still re...

High prevalence of HIV, HBsAg and anti-HCV positivity among people who injected drugs: results of the first bio-behavioral survey using respondent-driven sampling in two urban areas in Mozambique

BMC infect. dis; 19 (1), 2019
Few countries in sub-Saharan Africa know the magnitude of their HIV epidemic among people who inject drugs (PWID). This was the first study in Mozambique to measure prevalence of HIV, HBV, and HCV, and to assess demographic characteristics and risk behaviors in this key population. Methods: We used resp...

The incidence of pregnancy hypertension in India, Pakistan, Mozambique, and Nigeria: A prospective population-level analysis

PloS med; 16 (4), 2019
Most pregnancy hypertension estimates in less-developed countries are from cross-sectional hospital surveys and are considered overestimates. We estimated population-based rates by standardised methods in 27 intervention clusters of the Community-Level Interventions for Pre-eclampsia (CLIP) cluster rando...

Projection of interventions for the reduction of chronic malnutrition in Mozambique from 2010 to 2020

Chronic malnutrition is a public health problem affecting mainly children under the age of five, particularly in developing countries, where about half of all deaths among children in this age group are attributed to malnutrition. The Government of Mozambique recognizes chronic malnutrition as the main n...