O Inquérito Integrado Biológico e Comportamental (Integrated Biological and Behavioral Survey – IBBS) realizado em Homens que fazem Sexo com Homens (HSH) é o primeiro desta natureza levado a cabo em Moçambique, com o objectivo de (i) estimar a prevalência do Vírus de Imunodeficiência Humana (HIV...
Temos imensa satisfação em apresentar o relatório final do Inquérito Integrado Biológico e Comportamental (Integrated Biological and Behavioral Survey – IBBS) entre Homens que fazem Sexo com Homens (HSH) em Moçambique (IBBSHSH 2011). Trata-se do primeiro inquérito representativo desta natureza c...
Contributions to the planning of a health management policy for Mozambique: Situation analysis on management processes and what a provincial level management group thinks of the health management plan
Contributos para o planeamento de uma política de Recursos Humanos da Saúde para Moçambique: análise de situação sobre os processos de gestão e o que deve ser contemplado num Plano de Desenvolvimento de Recursos Humanos da Saúde (PDRHS) segundo um grupo de responsáveis pela gestão de nível pro...
Background: The zoonosis bovine tuberculosis (TB) is known to be responsible for a considerable proportion of extrapulmonary TB. In Mozambique, bovine TB is a recognised problem in cattle, but little has been done to evaluate how Mycobacterium bovis has contributed to human TB. We here explore the public...
Background: Mozambique is one of the countries with the highest burden of tuberculosis (TB) in Sub-Saharan Africa, and information on the predominant genotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis circulating in the country are important to better understand the epidemic. This study determined the predominant s...
The objective of this study was to examine the prevalence of Hepatitis E virus (HEV) in the Danish pig population. Faecal samples from 97 pigs, 1–5 months of age were analysed for HEV RNA by a new PriProET real time RT-PCR assay. In addition, serum samples from 71 sow herds were screened for the presen...
As doenças infecciosas constituem um dos principais problemas de saúde no continente
Africano especialmente na África sub-Sahariana, da qual Moçambique faz parte. A participação
de factores genéticos na susceptibilidade dos humanos as doenças infecciosas é um facto. A
identificação de marcador...
Pregnant women are susceptible to Plasmodium falciparum parasites that sequester in the placenta. The massive accumulation of infected erythrocytes in the placenta has been suggested to trigger the deleterious effects of malaria in pregnant women and their offspring. The risk of malaria is also high duri...
Malaria vector control interventions in Africa are currently being scaled up in order to attain universal access and appropriate coverage. The aim is to reduce or interrupt disease transmission, and to reach long term goals of malaria elimination and eradicatio...
