Resultados: 11

The feasibility of community level interventions for pre-eclampsia in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa: a mixed-methods design

Reproductive health; 1 (1), 2026
Globally, pre-eclampsia and eclampsia are major contributors to maternal and perinatal mortality; of which the vast majority of deaths occur in less developed countries. In addition, a disproportionate number of morbidities and mortalities occur due to delayed access to health services. The Community Lev...

Quantifying the gender gap in the HIV care cascade in southern Mozambique: We are missing the men

PLoS One; 16 (2), 2021
Uptake of HIV testing and antiretroviral therapy (ART) services during antenatal care (ANC) in rural Mozambique is disappointing. To nurture supportive male engagement in ANC services, we partnered with traditional birth attendants and trained a new type of male-to-male community health agent, "Male Cham...

Drugs without Doctors The Human Resource Challenges of Scaling Up Anti-Retroviral Therapy in High-Prevalence, Resource-Poor Settings

ART has the potential to transform the experience of living with HIV/AIDS in countries such as Mozambique with 1.4 million HIV-positive people, more than 300,000 of whom are presently in need of treatment. Since 2004, the Mozambican government, with the support of the international community, has been pu...

Engagement of Men in Antenatal Care Services: Increased HIV Testing and Treatment Uptake in a Community Participatory Action Program in Mozambique

AIDS behav; 20 (9), 2016
Uptake of HIV testing and antiretroviral therapy (ART) services during antenatal care (ANC) in rural Mozambique is disappointing. To nurture supportive male engagement in ANC services, we partnered with traditional birth attendants and trained a new type of male-to-male community health agent, "Male Cham...

Community perceptions of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia in southern Mozambique

Reprod. health; 13 (1), 2016
Background: Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest maternal mortality ratio at 500 deaths per 100,000 live births. In Mozambique maternal mortality is estimated at 249-480 per 100,000 live births and eclampsia is the third leading cause of death. The objective of this study was to describe the community unde...

Manual Técnico sobre Assistência ao Parto, ao Recém-nascido e às principais Complicações Obstétricas e Neonatais
Technical Assistance Manual on Childbirth, Newborns and major Obstetric and Neonatal Complications

A morte de uma mulher, devido a complicações da gravidez ou parto, constitui uma tragédia no seio da família e uma grande perda na sua comunidade, pois a mulher é, em geral, o suporte moral, social e económico da família e da comunidade. A morte materna também afecta o desenvolvimento das crianç...

Sociocultural and epidemiological aspects of HIV/AIDS in Mozambique

Background: A legacy of colonial rule coupled with a devastating 16-year civil war through 1992 left Mozambique economically impoverished just as the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic swept over southern Africa in the late 1980s. The crumbling Mozambican health care sys...

Revista Medica de Moçambique
Revista Medica de Moçambique

Faz-se uma avaliação do impacto de actividades das parteiras tradicionais capacitadas (PTC) em três distritos da província de Manica de Março a Abril de 1996. Os objectivos foram caracterizar a utilização dos serviços das PTC, avaliar a divulgação da consulta pré~-natal e planeamento familiar ...