Introduction: With improved access to anti-retroviral therapy (ART) the focus of HIV treatment is changing to reducing chronic co-morbidities and their effects, but guidelines for HIV care in many African countries do not include screening for cardiac disease. Our study aimed to determine the pattern of ...
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...
Background: There is scare information about HIV co-infections with hepatitis B virus (HBV) and/or hepatitis C virus (HCV) among People Who Inject Drugs (PWID) in Mozambique. This information is critical to ensure the treatment necessary to decrease the progression of liver disease and the transmission o...
Hepatite B/epidemiologia,
HIV,
Transtornos Relacionados ao Uso de Substâncias,
Carga Viral,
Assistência Ambulatorial,
Hepatite C,
Infecções,
Prevalência,
Fatores de Risco,
Usuários de Drogas,
Coinfecção/epidemiologia,
Coinfecção/psicologia,
Coinfecção/virologia,
Usuários de Drogas/psicologia,
Usuários de Drogas/estatística & dados numéricos,
Epidemias,
Infecções por HIV/epidemiologia,
Infecções por HIV/psicologia,
Infecções por HIV/virologia,
Hepacivirus,
Hepatite B/psicologia,
Hepatite B/virologia,
Vírus da Hepatite B,
Hepatite C/epidemiologia
Background: HIV prevalence in Mozambique (12.6%) is one of the highest in the world, yet ~40% of people living with HIV (PLHIV) do not know their HIV status. Strategies to increase HIV testing uptake and diagnosis among PLHIV are urgently needed. Home-based HIV testing services (HBHTS) have been evaluate...
Soro, Laura Fuente;
Varela, Elisa López;
Augusto, Orvalho;
Bernardo, Edson Luis;
Sacoor, Charfudin;
Nhacolo, Ariel;
Castillo, Paula Ruiz;
Alfredo, Charity;
Karajeanes, Esmeralda;
Vaz, Paula;
Naniche, Denise.
Patients lost to follow-up (LTFU) over the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) cascade have poor clinical outcomes and contribute to onward HIV transmission. We assessed true care outcomes and factors associated with successful reengagement in patients LTFU in southern Mozambique.
Newly diagnosed HIV-posi...
Background: Determination of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) exposure status in infants and young children is required to guarantee timely diagnosis and access to appropriate care. HIV prevalence among Mozambican women aged 15-49 years is 15%, and vertical transmission rate is still high. The stud...
Aleitamento Materno,
Infecções por HIV/epidemiologia,
Infecções por HIV/prevenção & controle,
Infecções por HIV/transmissão,
Transmissão Vertical de Doenças Infecciosas/prevenção & controle,
Transmissão Vertical de Doenças Infecciosas/estatística & dados numéricos,
Malária/epidemiologia,
Malária/prevenção & controle,
Fatores de Risco,
Cobertura Vacinal/estatística & dados numéricos,
Mães/estatística & dados numéricos,
Fatores Socioeconômicos,
Moçambique/epidemiologia,
Prevalência
Mozambique has one of the highest burdens of HIV globally, and people who inject drugs (PWID) have one of thehighest HIV infection rates in Africa. After the implementation of the first Biological Behavioral Surveillance (BBS)
Survey among PWID in Mozambique, the Ministry of Health started the developmen...
Preparações Farmacêuticas,
Infecções por HIV/complicações,
Epidemias,
Populações Vulneráveis,
Produtos Biológicos,
Redução do Dano,
Adolescente,
Usuários de Drogas,
Moçambique,
Infecções por HIV/prevenção & controle,
Programas de Troca de Agulhas/métodos,
Abuso de Substâncias por Via Intravenosa/complicações
Vaz, paula;
Buck, w, chris;
Bhatt, Nilesh;
Bila, Dulce;
Auld, andrew;
Houston, James;
Cossa, loide;
Alfredo, Charity;
Jobarteh, kebba;
Sabatier, jennifer.
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...
Antirretrovirais/uso terapêutico,
Farmacorresistência Viral,
HIV/efeitos da radiação,
Infecções por HIV/terapia,
Infecções por HIV/virologia,
Lamivudina/uso terapêutico,
Lamivudina/farmacologia,
Nevirapina/farmacologia,
Nevirapina/uso terapêutico,
Estavudina/farmacologia,
Estavudina/uso terapêutico,
Carga Viral
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...
Infecções por HIV/diagnóstico,
Infecções por HIV/virologia,
HIV-1/genética,
HIV-1/isolamento & purificação,
HIV-1/fisiologia,
Doenças do Recém-Nascido/diagnóstico,
Doenças do Recém-Nascido/virologia,
Moçambique,
Sensibilidade e Especificidade,
Estudos Prospectivos,
Carga Viral/métodos,
Viremia/diagnóstico,
Viremia/virologia
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...
