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HIV drug resistance patterns in pregnant women using next generation sequence in Mozambique

PLos ONE; 13 (5), 2018
Background: Few data on HIV resistance in pregnancy are available from Mozambique, one of the countries with the highest HIV toll worldwide. Understanding the patterns of HIV drug resistance in pregnant women might help in tailoring optimal regimens for prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV (...

Directrizes para engajamento do homem nos cuidados de saúde
Guidelines for Men's Engagement in Health Care

A Organização Mundial de Saúde reporta que em várias partes do mundo os indicadores de saúde dos homens e rapazes são mais baixos quando comparado com o das mulheres e raparigas. Todavia, estas disparidades têm recebido pouca atenção dos programas de saúde nacionais, regionais, globais e do...

9º Anuário Estatístico sobre Recursos Humanos para a Saúde em Moçambique - 2018
9th Statistical Yearbook on Human Resources for Health in Mozambique - 2018

O Ministério da Saúde aprovou em outubro de 2008, o Plano Estratégico do Sector da Saúde (2015 – 2019). O mesmo foi elaborado com vista a fazer face aos desafios que se colocam ao sector, com vista a atingir os Objectivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável através dos principais indicadores de saúde...

Spatio-temporal modelling of weekly malaria incidence in children under 5 for early epidemic detection in Mozambique
Spatio-temporal modelling of weekly malaria incidence in children under 5 for early epidemic detection in Mozambique

Sci. rep; 8 (1), 2018
Malaria is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in Mozambique. We present a malaria early warning system (MEWS) for Mozambique informed by seven years of weekly case reports of malaria in children under 5 years of age from 142 districts. A spatio-temporal model was developed based on explanatory c...

Mapping and Modelling Malaria Risk Areas Using Climate, Socio-Demographic and Clinical Variables in Chimoio, Mozambique

Background: Malaria continues to be a major public health concern in Africa. Approximately 3.2 billion people worldwide are still at risk of contracting malaria, and 80% of deaths caused by malaria are concentrated in only 15 countries, most of which are in Africa. These high-burden countries have achiev...

Description of a Mass Poisoning in a Rural District in Mozambique: The First Documented Bongkrekic Acid Poisoning in Africa

Clin. infect. dis; 69 (9), 2018
Background: On 9 January 2015, in a rural town in Mozambique, >230 persons became sick and 75 died of an illness linked to drinking pombe, a traditional alcoholic beverage. Methods: An investigation was conducted to identify case patients and determine the cause of the outbreak. A case patient was define...

Description of a Mass Poisoning in a Rural District in Mozambique: The First Documented Bongkrekic Acid Poisoning in Africa

Clin. infect. dis; 66 (9), 2018
Background: On 9 January 2015, in a rural town in Mozambique, >230 persons became sick and 75 died of an illness linked to drinking pombe, a traditional alcoholic beverage. Methods: An investigation was conducted to identify case patients and determine the cause of the outbreak. A case patient was define...

Awareness of cervical cancer and willingness to be vaccinated against human papillomavirus in Mozambican adolescent girls

Papillomavirus Res; 5 (), 2018
Sub-Saharan Africa concentrates the largest burden of cervical cancer worldwide. The introduction of the HPV vaccination in this region is urgent and strategic to meet global health targets. This was a cross-sectional study conducted in Mozambique prior to the first round of the HPV vaccine demonstration...

Desigualdades em saúde em moçambique: necessidades, acesso, barreiras e qualidade de atendimento

O acesso aos serviços de saúde de qualidade é crucial para uma saúde boa e equilibrada. Este relatório tem por objectivo fornecer evidências científicas sólidas sobre o acesso ao sistema de saúde em Moçambique e as desigualdades sociais que afectam 6 esse acesso. Para o efeito, foi realizada u...