Resultados: 1535

Determinants of prenatal care use and HIV testing during pregnancy: a population-based, cross-sectional study of 7080 women of reproductive age in Mozambique

BMC pregnancy childbirth; 15 (19), 2019
Background: In low-income countries with poor coverage of healthcare services such as Mozambique, antenatal care serves as a vital tool for providing life-saving and cost-effective services for pregnant mothers. Nonetheless, many countries in Africa, including Mozambique, are struggling to attain an opti...

Gendered relationship between HIV stigma and HIV testing among men and women in Mozambique: a cross-sectional study to inform a stigma reduction and male-targeted HIV testing intervention

BMJ Open; 9 (10), 2019
Objectives: Increasing and sustaining engagement in HIV care for people living with HIV are critical to both individual therapeutic benefit and epidemic control. Men are less likely to test for HIV compared with women in sub-Saharan African countries, and ultimately have delayed entry to HIV care. Stigma...

Relatório semestral 2019: relatório Semestral das actividades relacionadas ao HIV/SIDA

O Programa Nacional de Controlo de ITS HIV/SIDA (PNC ITS-HIV/SIDA) é a entidade do Serviço Nacional de Saúde responsável pela gestão dos serviços de saúde relacionados ao HIV. A sua missão é de coordenar, regulamentar e prestar cuidados e tratamento às pessoas vivendo com HIV. Para responder ...

Predictors of personal exposure to black carbon among women in southern semi-rural Mozambique

Environ. int; 131 (104962), 2019
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has the highest proportion of people using unclean fuels for household energy, which can result in products of incomplete combustion that are damaging for health. Black carbon (BC) is a useful marker of inefficient combustion-related particles; however, ambient air quality data a...

VAR2CSA Serology to Detect Plasmodium falciparum Transmission Patterns in Pregnancy

Emerg. infect. dis; 25 (10), 2019
Pregnant women constitute a promising sentinel group for continuous monitoring of malaria transmission. To identify antibody signatures of recent Plasmodium falciparum exposure during pregnancy, we dissected IgG responses against VAR2CSA, the parasite antigen that mediates placental sequestration. We use...

Role of Male Sex Partners in HIV Risk of Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Mozambique

olescent girls and young women (AGYW) ages 15–24 years are disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS, particularly in East and Southern Africa. One strategy to reduce HIV among AGYW, proposed through the Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored, and Safe (DREAMS) Initiative, is to prevent an...

Mozambique’s Community Antiretroviral Therapy Support Group Program: The Role of Social Relationships in Facilitating HIV/ AIDS Treatment Retention

AIDS behav; 23 (9), 2019
The Community Antiretroviral (ARV) Therapy Support Group (CASG) program aims to address low retention rates in Mozambique’s HIV treatment program and the absorptive capacity of the country’s health facilities. CASG provides patients with the opportunity to form groups, whose members provide peer supp...

Geographic access to emergency obstetric services: a model incorporating patient bypassing using data from Mozambique
Geographic access to emergency obstetric services: a model incorporating patient bypassing using data from Mozambique

BMJ Glob Health; 4 (5), 2019
Targeted approaches to further reduce maternal mortality require thorough understanding of the geographic barriers that women face when seeking care. Common measures of geographic access do not account for the time needed to reach services, despite substantial evidence that links proximity with greater ...

How accurate are modelled birth and pregnancy estimates? Comparison of four models using high resolution maternal health census data in southern Mozambique

BMJ Glob Health; 4 (5), 2019
Background: Existence of inequalities in quality and access to healthcare services at subnational levels has been identified despite a decline in maternal and perinatal mortality rates at national levels, leading to the need to investigate such conditions using geographical analysis. The need to assess t...