Background: Mozambique has a high burden of group A rotavirus (RVA) infection and chronic undernutrition. This
study aimed to determine the frequency and potential risk factors for RVA infection in undernourished children
under 5 years old with diarrhoea in Mozambique.
Methods: The analysis was conducted...
Background: Loss to follow-up of HIV-positive patients before initiation of antiretroviral therapy can exceed 50% in low-income settings and is a challenge to the scale-up of treatment. We implemented point-of-care counting of CD4 cells in Mozambique and assessed the effect on loss to follow-up before im...
Background: Protection against clinical malaria episodes is acquired slowly after frequent exposure to malaria parasites. This is reflected by a decrease with increasing age in both parasite density and incidence of clinical episodes. In many settings of stable malaria transmission, the presence...
