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GUIÃO PRÁTICO PARA COLHEITA, PREPARAÇÃO, CONSERVAÇÃO, EMPACOTAMENTO E TRANSPORTE DE AMOSTRAS PARA TESTE DE CARGA VIRAL E DIAGNÓSTICO PRECOCE INFANTIL DO HIV
PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR THE COLLECTION, PREPARATION, PRESERVATION, PACKAGING AND TRANSPORTATION OF SAMPLES FOR VIRAL LOAD TESTING AND EARLY DIAGNOSIS OF HIV IN CHILDREN

Em Moçambique, segundo dados do INSIDA 2021, a prevalência da infecção por HIV em indivíduos acima de 15 anos de idade foi estimada em 12.5%. Em 2022, cerca de 2.4 milhões de pessoas viviam com HIV, dos quais 96% estavam em tratamento antirretroviral. No mesmo ano, foram reportadas 4.8 novas infec...

Climate variability, socio-economic conditions and vulnerability to malaria infections in Mozambique 2016-2018: a spatial temporal analysis

Frente Saúde Pública; 11 (), 2023
Background: Temperature, precipitation, relative humidity (RH), and Normalized Different Vegetation Index (NDVI), influence malaria transmission dynamics. However, an understanding of interactions between socioeconomic indicators, environmental factors and malaria incidence can help design interventions ...

Microbiological assessment reveals that Salmonella, Shigella and Campylobacter infections are widespread in HIV infected and uninfected patients with diarrhea in Mozambique

Diarrhea is an important cause of hospitalizations in Mozambique. However, little attention has beenpaid to the impact HIV infection on the prevalence or clinical manifestations of enteric bacterial infections. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of Salmonella spp., Shigella spp. and Campylob...

Prompt HIV diagnosis and antiretroviral treatment in postpartum women is crucial for prevention of mother to child transmission during breastfeeding: Survey results in a high HIV prevalence community in southern Mozambique after the implementation of Option B

PLos ONE; 17 (8), 2022
orld Health Organization recommends promoting breastfeeding without restricting its duration among HIV-positive women on lifelong antiretroviral treatment (ART). There is little data on breastfeeding duration and mother to child transmission (MTCT) beyond 24 months. We compared the duration of breastfeed...

SARS-CoV-2 saliva testing using RT-PCR: a systematic review

Int. j. infect. dis; 121 (), 2022
There remain challenges in using SARS-CoV-2 RNA diagnostic assays in the respiratory tract in a pandemic. More so certain countries such as Hong Kong have already included saliva as part of their mass-testing protocol. The aim of this study was to conduct a systematic review on the alternate use of saliv...

Uso do Modelo Logit para identificação de determinantes de perfil de indivíduos submetidos ao teste de COVID-19
Use of the Logit Model to Identify Profile Determinants of Individuals Undergoing the Covid-19 Test

Este artigo tem como objectivo descrever como se pode usar o modelo regressão Logit para descrever o perfil dos indivíduos submetidos ao teste da COVID-19, e identificar os factores que determinam a infecção. Métodos: Foi usada uma amostra 48 indivíduos do Distrito de Mavago, Província do Niassa,...

Children’s Nutritional Rehabilitation Program in Beira, Mozambique: A Retrospective Study

Am. j. trop. med. hyg; 105 (6), 2021
Malnutrition is still a major public health issue in sub-Saharan Africa and Mozambique. The main aim of this study was to evaluate the adherence to the nutritional rehabilitation program (NRP) and its impact on the growth of malnourished children in Beira, Mozambique. The secondary aim was to verify the ...

Incidência de falência terapêutica aos regimes de tratamento antirretroviral (tarv) de primeira escolha em crianças menores de 15 anos em moçambique, ano de 2019

Moçambique tem uma das maiores epidemias de HIV em crianças no continente africano. Estimava-se que 150 mil crianças entre 0 a 14 anos viviam com HIV em 20191 . Embora o acesso ao Tratamento Antirretroviral (TARV) ainda constitua um desafio, com apenas 63% das crianças vivendo com HIV em TARV em 2019...

Rotavirus A infection in pre- and post-vaccine period: Risk factors, genotypes distribution by vaccination status and age of children in Nampula Province, Northern Mozambique (2015-2019)

PLos ONE; (), 2021
Globally, Rotavirus A (RVA) remains the leading cause of severe acute gastroenteritis associated with high childhood hospitalization and mortality, accounting for an estimated 128,515 deaths among children under five years old in 2016 [1, 2]. In Sub-Saharan Africa, RVA associated morbidity and mortality ...

Intestinal protozoa in hospitalized under-five children with diarrhoea in Nampula - a cross-sectional analysis in a low-income setting in northern Mozambique

BMC infect. dis; 21 (1), 2021
In Mozambique, infection by intestinal parasites is reported all over the country. However, infection in children with diarrhoea is mostly focused in the southern region of Mozambique. This work aims to determine the frequency and potential risk factors for infection by Cryptosporidium spp., Giardia lamb...