Background: Artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) has been the recommended first-line treatment for uncomplicated malaria in Mozambique since 2006, with artemether–lumefantrine (AL) and amodiaquine–artesunate (AS–AQ) as the first choice. To assess efficacy of currently used ACT, an in vivo...
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: Early infant diagnosis (EID) of HIV-exposed and initiation of HIV-positive infants on anti-retroviral therapy (ART) requires a well-coordinated cascade of care. Loss-to-follow-up (LTFU) can occur at multiple steps and effective EID is impeded by human resource constraints, difficulty with pat...
Retention in anti-retroviral therapy (ART) presents a challenge in sub-Saharan Africa. In
Mozambique, after roll-out to peripheral facilities, the 12-month retention rate was reported
mostly from sites with an electronic patient tracking system (EPTS), representing only 65%
of patients. We conducted a na...
DOTS: a taxa de notificação de Tuberculose (TB) todas as formas aumentou de 237/100,000 em 2015 para 319/100,000 hab em 2017. Em termos de número de casos, foi notificado em 2017 um total de 86.515 casos de TB todas as formas, correspondendo à um índice de cumprimento da meta para 2017 de pouco mais...
The objective of this study was to quantify the impact of a new technology to communicate the results of an infant HIV diagnostic test on test turnaround time and to quantify the association between late delivery of test results and patient loss to follow-up. We used data collected during a pilot impleme...
We studied patient outcomes by type of referral site following 2 years of combination antiretroviral therapy
(cART) during scale-up from June 2006 to July 2011 in Mozambique’s rural Zambe´zia Province. Loss to followup (LTFU) was defined as no contact within 60 days after scheduled medication pickup. ...
