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Vigilância Nacional de Meningite Procdiimento Operacional Padrão para Pessoal do Laboratório

A meningite bacteriana é uma condição clínica que acarreta risco de vida, requerendo diagnóstico e tratamento precoces. Estima-se que ocorreram 2,8 milhões de casos de meningite em todo o mundo, em 2016 (Colaboradores GBDM Lancet 2018). Até 70% dos pacientes com meningite morrem sem tratamento (Ro...

Compromise of Second-Line Antiretroviral Therapy Due to High Rates of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Drug Resistance in Mozambican Treatment-Experienced Children With Virologic Failure

Background: Virologic failure (VF) is highly prevalent in sub-Saharan African children on antiretroviral therapy (ART) and is often associated with human immunodeficiency virus drug resistance (DR). Most children still lack access to routine viral load (VL) monitoring for early identification of treatmen...

Viral load assay performs comparably to early infant diagnosis assay to diagnose infants with HIV in Mozambique: a prospective observational study

J. int. aids soc; 23 (), 2020
Introduction: Viral load testing is essential to manage HIV disease, especially in infants and children. Early infant diagnosis (EID) is performed using nucleic-acid testing in children under 18 months. Resource-limited health systems face severe challenges to scale-up both viral load and EID to unpreced...

Is the closest health facility the one used in pregnancy care-seeking? A cross-sectional comparative analysis of self-reported and modelled geographical access to maternal care in Mozambique, India and Pakistan

Int. j. health geogr; 19 (1), 2020
July Travel time to care is known to influence uptake of health services. Generally, pregnant women who take longer to transit to health facilities are the least likely to deliver in facilities. It is not clear if modelled access predicts fairly the vulnerability in women seeking maternal care across dif...

Usability and Feasibility of an Innovative mLearning Approach for Nurses Providing Option B+ Services in Manica and Sofala Provinces, Mozambique

The scaling of Option B+ services, whereby all pregnant women who test HIV positive are started on lifelong antiretroviral therapy upon diagnosis regardless of CD4 T-cell count, is ongoing in many high HIV burden, low-resource countries. We developed and evaluated a tablet-based mobile learning (mLearnin...

Plano de acção multissectorial para melhorar a resposta dos programas de redução e prevenção da desnutrição: Distrito de montepuez província de cabo delgado
Multisectoral action plan to improve the response of programs to reduce and prevent malnutrition: montepuez district cabo delgado province

Como parte das actividades planificadas do Convénio de Nutrição, “Melhorar a saúde da população, com incidência nos seus Determinantes Sociais e especial enfoque na nutrição, através do fortalecimento dos Cuidados de Saúde Primários como a melhor estratégia para garantir o Direito à Saúd...

Spatial Distribution of HIV Prevalence among Young People in Mozambique

Abstract: Mozambique has a high burden of HIV and is currently ranked sixth worldwide for adult prevalence. In Mozambique, HIV prevalence is not uniformly distributed geographically and throughout the population. We investigated the spatial distribution of HIV infection among adolescents and young people...

Prevalence and risk factors of sexually transmitted infections and cervical neoplasia in women from a rural area of southern mozambique

Infect. dis. obstet. gynecol; 2010 (609315), 2020
There is limited information on the prevalence of sexually transmitted infections and the prevalence of cervical neoplasia in rural sub-Saharan Africa. This study describes the prevalence and the etiology of STIs and the prevalence of cervical neoplasia among women in southern Mozambique. An age-stratifi...

Plano nacional de tripla eliminação da transmissão vertical do hiv, sfilis e hepatite b em moçambique 2020-2024

Registou-se um avanço significativo em Moçambique na prevenção da transmissão vertical de mãe para filho (PTV), desde o lançamento do primeiro Plano de Eliminação da Transmissão Vertical em 2012: a testagem e tratamento do HIV em mulheres grávidas e lactantes estão totalmente integrados nos s...