Malaria is a serious public health problem, with some 212 million new cases and nearly half a million malaria deaths worldwide in 2015 alone. Despite recent progress in control and treatment of the disease, the African region continues to bear the brunt of the global malaria burden. Most of the population there continues to lack [...]
HIV-infected patients with surgical conditions are at greater risk of developing post-operative complications than those without HIV. This study assessed the main surgical pathologies occurring in both HIV-infected and non-HIV-infected patients in the surgical division of Mozambique’s Beira Central Hospital (BCH). A total of 237 adult patients were admitted to the surgical division of BCH [...]
Mozambique has the eighth highest HIV prevalence in the world. In June 2013 the country launched a task-shifting (TS) initiative for the administration of antiretroviral therapy (ART) to under-5 HIV-positive children, to be carried out not only by doctors working in HIV outpatient services but also nurses trained in mother and child care. This study, [...]
Adolescence is a delicate phase vis-à-vis adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) by young HIV-positive patients, who often drop out of treatment due to personal reasons or the transfer of their therapy management from pediatric to adult services. Mozambique has the eighth-highest HIV prevalence in the world, particularly among adolescents aged 15-19. To help protect youth [...]
Breast tuberculosis in men is a rarely reported and poorly described condition. The aim of this systematic review of the available literature was to quantify its incidence and describe its clinical features and the procedures used to diagnose and treat it. The average age of the men in the 26 cases analyzed was 56.5. In [...]
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the top ten causes of death worldwide. Mozambique is one of the countries worst affected by the disease, with a significant failure rate in the treatment of TB patients. In order to develop effective TB treatment regimens even for the most vulnerable groups within a population, it is necessary to [...]
Mozambique has the eighth highest HIV prevalence in the world, with adolescents representing a growing share of the affected population. Since 2014, Doctors with Africa CUAMM has been helping to support a network of clinics in the country aimed specifically at young people – Serviços de Aconselhamento e Acompanhamento dos Jovens (SAAJ) – that offer [...]
Who estimates that 25 million men experience genital disease. Inguinal hernia and lymphatic filariasis are two of the most frequent surgical diseases in Africa; in Mozambique and other sub-Saharan countries there are many cases of genital elephantiasis, caused by lymphatic obstruction and overload. In medium- and low-income countries, serious cases often occur at the end [...]