Challenges and facilitators to evidence-based decision-making for maternal and child health in Mozambique: district, municipal and national case studies. The need for evidence-based decision-making in the health sector is well understood in the global health community. Yet, gaps persist between the availability of evidence and the use of that evidence. Most research on evidence-based decision . This, in turn, requires alignment between those who collect data, those who analyze and interpret data, and those who make and implement decisions. Investments in individual, organizational, and systems capacity to use evidence are needed to foster practices of evidence-based decision-making for improved maternal and child health in Mozambique.
Austerity and the "sector-wide approach" to health: The Mozambique experience. Fiscal austerity policies imposed by the IMF have reduced investments in social services, leaving post-independence nations like Mozambique struggling to recover from civil war and high disease burden. By 2000, a sector-wide approach (SWAp) was promoted to maximize aid effectiveness. 'Like-minded' bilateral donors
of Health, Ministry of Health of Mozambique, Mozambique; Christopher Dowrick, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom, and Aintree Park Group Practice, United Kingdom, and University of Melbourne, Australia; Julian Eaton, CBM Global Disability Inclusion, Netherlands (Kingdom of the), and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom; Rabih El Chammay, Ministry of Public Health of Lebanon
Determinants of pregnant women's satisfaction with interactions with health providers at antenatal consultation in primary health care in Southern Mozambique in 2021: a cross-sectional study. The Ministry of Health of Mozambique (MISAU) and the World Health Organization (WHO) recommend enhancing pregnant women's satisfaction with health care services in order to advance maternal and child health
adult health in Mozambique. Care-seeking-related information helps identify barriers for seeking care from formal health providers while emphasizing the need for generating local resources and strengthening outreach health systems service delivery.
over 800,000 population. The objectives of this analysis are to quantify the costs of establishing and maintaining the project between 2017 and 2020 and to assess the cost per output of the surveillance system using data from financial reports produced by the National Institutes of Health in Mozambique. The program cost analysis consists of start-up (fixed) costs and average annual operating costs
for Health Research in Burkina Faso, the National Health Ethics Committee in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Medicine and Odontostomatology/Faculty of Pharmacy in Mali, the Gambia Government/MRCG Joint Ethics Committee and the National Bioethics Committee for Health in Mozambique. Written informed consent will be obtained from each individual prior to her
with a WHO- and UNAIDS-led expert group, including Nyagura Amek, Kisumu Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS), Kenya; Mark Amexo, WHO Health Metrics Network; Cheryl Amoroso, Partners in Health, Rwanda; Daniel Arhinful, Noguchi University, Ghana; Cidalia Baloi, Ministry of Health, Mozambique; Paulin Basinga, Global Health Program, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
little is known about these factors in relation to maternal health in Mozambique. A cross sectional household survey was conducted with men and women in southern Mozambique about decision making, financial support and knowledge of danger signs. A multivariable logistic model was used to identify factors associated with knowledge of danger signs and Cohen's kappa for agreement among couples. A total in maternal health in Mozambique. Maternal health care studies should collect more data from men directly as men and women often report different views and behavior regarding maternal health care issues and male involvement.
. A range of sites for conventional data collection were selected to represent both primary testing sites (where POC EID instruments would be placed) and spoke sites, rural and urban environment, and high throughput and low throughput sites. In all countries, except Mozambique, we developed a POC EID test request form in conjunction with the Ministry of Health. In Mozambique, EGPAF-trained staff extracted
Perceptions and decision-making with regard to pregnancy among HIV positive women in rural Maputo Province, Mozambique - a qualitative study. In preventing the transfer of HIV to their children, the Ministry of Health in Mozambique recommends all couples follow medical advice prior to a pregnancy. However, little is known about how such women experience pregnancy, nor the values they adhere
Discovery of Novel Viruses in Mosquitoes from the Zambezi Valley of Mozambique. Mosquitoes carry a wide variety of viruses that can cause vector-borne infectious diseases and affect both human and veterinary public health. Although Mozambique can be considered a hot spot for emerging infectious diseases due to factors such as a rich vector population and a close vector/human/wildlife interface
Research ethics review at University Eduardo Mondlane (UEM)/Maputo Central Hospital, Mozambique (2013–2016): a descriptive analysis of the start-up of a new research ethics committee (REC) Mozambique has seen remarkable growth in biomedical research over the last decade. To meet a growing need, the National Committee for Bioethics in Health of Mozambique (CNBS) encouraged the development
in pregnancy (IPTp) with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) and distribution of insecticide-treated mosquito nets (ITNs) to all pregnant women attending antenatal care (ANC) services. This study was conducted with the aim to assess the uptake of IPTp and ITNs in pregnant women attending ANC services and correlate with ANC attendance and frequency of stock-outs in 22 health facilities Mozambique. A cross
to support research and innovation systems for health in Mozambique, Senegal, and Tanzania, and looked at the extent to which these policies and strategies have been implemented. We reviewed documents and reports and conducted in-depth interviews with 16 key informants representing various actors of the national research for health systems. The results illustrate that there are various policies
into reality. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US CDC), the International Association of National Public Health Institutes (IANPHI), and the National Institute of Health of Mozambique have also been vital partners in ZNPHI’s growth and development.In 2017, ZNPHI held a three-day emergency management training facilitated by US CDC PHEM experts. During the training, an alert was received
of transmission, and INS the expertise to conduct quality control of laboratory determinations as well as dissemination and networking with the Ministry of Health in Mozambique. Four WPs will comprise the main research tasks, including COVID-19 surveillance (WP1), Laboratory determinations (WP2), Contact tracing and community awareness (WP3), Modelling (WP4), as well as two cross-cutting WPs related to Capacity
been paid to quality of care provided by lower-level providers. Task-shared outpatient management of mental health in Mozambique has shown low rates of retention in care (40%), medication adherence (<15%), and proportion of patients achieving function improvement (<5%). Similarly high rates of loss-to-follow-up, poor adherence, and poor patient outcomes have been reported across other LMICs. To our
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