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Early effects of COVID-19 on maternal and child health service disruption in Mozambique

Front. public health; 11 (), 2023
After the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, more than 184 million cases and 4 million deaths had been recorded worldwide by July 2021. These are likely to be underestimates and do not distinguish between direct and indirect deaths resulting from disruptions in health care services. ...

Effects of COVID-19 on child health services utilization and delivery in rural Mozambique: a qualitative study

Introduction After the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, more than 184 million cases and 4 million deaths had been recorded worldwide by July 2021. These are likely to be underestimates and do not distinguish between direct and indirect deaths resulting from disruptions in health ca...

Covid-19 pandemic impact on maternal and child health services access in Nampula, Mozambique: a mixed methods research

Background: The Covid-19 pandemic has so far infected more than 30 million people in the world, having major impact on global health with collateral damage. In Mozambique, a public state of emergency was declared at the end of March 2020. This has limited people’s movements and reduced public services,...

Liderança e redes de saúde infantil em Moçambique desde 2000 até à data: perspectivas do país
Child health leadership and networks in Mozambique from 2000 to date: country perspectives

Em 2015, a Agência dos Estados Unidos para o Desenvolvimento Internacional (USAID) solicitou um mapeamento da liderança global em saúde infantil para compreender melhor a sua evolução desde 2000, a actual rede de partes interessadas e líderes mundiais e as potenciais implicações para os investime...

Rethinking integrated nutrition-health strategies to address micronutrient deficiencies in children under five in Mozambique

Matern. child nutr; 15 (1), 2019
In Mozambique, about two thirds of children 6-59 months of age are affected by vitamin A deficiency and anaemia. The objective of this case study is to provide programme considerations for planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating vitamin A and iron deficiency interventions within the context of...

Tackling the hard problems: implementation experience and lessons learned in newborn health from the African Health Initiative

Background: The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's African Health Initiative supported the implementation of Population Health Implementation and Training (PHIT) Partnership health system strengthening interventions in designated areas of five countries: Ghana, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zambia. A...

Predictors of Health-Care Utilization Among Children 6-59 Months of Age in Zambézia Province, Mozambique

Am. j. trop. med. hyg; 96 (2), 2017
Abstract. Globally, approximately 5.9 million children under 5 years of age died in 2015, a reduction of over 50% since 1990. Millennium Development Goal 4 established the goal of reducing child mortality by two-thirds by 2015. Multiple countries have surpassed this goal; however, regional and within-cou...

Factors influencing mother-to-child transmission of HIV during pregnancy and breastfeeding in Mozambique

The earliest reports of a new disease were seen in the late seventies-early eighties, after observing rare opportunistic diseases such as Kaposi Sarcoma or Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, usually occurring in immunodeprimed people, in a cluster of intravenous drug users and gay men in the United States. ...

Atenção Integrada às Doenças da Infância (AIDI) - Caderno de Mapas para a Atenção Integrada à Criança Doente de 1 semana aos 2 meses e dos 2 meses aos 5 anos

AVALIAR CLASSIFICAR IDENTIFICAR O TRATAMENTO PERGUNTAR À MÃE SOBRE OS PROBLEMAS QUE A CRIANÇA APRESENTA Determinar se se trata da primeira consulta para este problema ou se é uma consulta de controle para reavaliação do caso. - Se se tratar de uma consulta de controle, utilizar as instruções no...