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Imprensa angolana, portuguesa e mundial sobre o 25 de Abril de 1974 na coleção ...
Silva, Ana Margarida Dias da; Varanda, Jorge; Steffen, Amanda Soares; Freitas, HelenaAtravés do mapeamento dos jornais e recortes de imprensa angolanos, portugueses e internacionais ocidentais existentes no arquivo da Companhia de Diamantes de Angola (Diamang), é possível, por triangulação, comparar os discursos da metrópole, do Sul e ocidentais sobre a Revolução de 25 de Abril de 1974. A coleção de clipping feita pela Secção de Relações Públicas da Companhia é uma lente ideal para melhor compr...
It Was Not the Perfect Storm: The Social History of the HIV-2 Virus in Guinea-B...
Varanda, Jorge; Santos, José MaurícioThe perfect storm model that was elaborated for the HIV-1M pandemic has also been used to explain the emergence of HIV-2, a second human immunodeficiency virus-acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV-AIDS) that became an epidemic in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa. The use of this model creates epidemiological generalizations, ecological oversimplifications and historical misunderstandings as its assumptions-an urba...
It was not the perfect storm: the social history of the HIV-2 virus in Guinea-B...
Varanda, Jorge; Santos, José MaurícioThe perfect storm model that was elaborated for the HIV-1M pandemic has also been used to explain the emergence of HIV-2, a second human immunodeficiency virus-acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV-AIDS) that became an epidemic in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa. The use of this model creates epidemiological generalizations, ecological oversimplifications and historical misunderstandings as its assumptions—an urba...
Putting Anthropology into Global Health
Varanda, Jorge; Théophile, JosenandoThis analysis of over a century of public health campaigns against human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) in Angola aims to unravel the role of (utopian) dreams in global health. A ention to the emergence and use of concepts such as neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and ideas about elimination or eradication highlights how these concepts and utopian dreams are instrumental for the advancement of par...
Malaria transmission: current challenges and new tools in the elimination conte...
Craveiro, Isabel; Gonçalves, Luzia; Varanda, Jorge; Salgueiro, PatríciaLately, regardless of considerable progress in the elimination of malaria, this disease remains a major public health problem in tropical regions, prevailing in countries with weak health systems. Increased investment in recent decades resulted in the development of new tools and solutions for the control of the parasitic disease with the greatest impact on humanity. The Centre for Global Health and Tropical Me...
On the contribution of Angola to the initial spread of HIV-1
Pineda-Peña, Andrea-Clemencia; Varanda, Jorge; Sousa, João Dinis; Theys, Kristof; Bártolo, Inês; Leitner, Thomas; Taveira, Nuno; Vandamme, Anne-MiekeAngola borders and has long-term links with Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as well as high levels of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) genetic diversity, indicating a potential role in the initial spread of the HIV-1 pandemic. Herein, we analyze 564 C2V3 and 354 pol publicly available sequences from DRC, Republic of Congo (RC) and Angola to better understand the initial spread of the virus in this region. ...
Main causes of death in Dande, Angola: results from Verbal Autopsies of deaths ...
Rosário, Edite Vila Nova; Costa, Diogo; Timóteo, Luís; Rodrigues, Ana Ambrósio; Varanda, Jorge; Nery, Susana Vaz; Brito, MiguelBackground: The Dande Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) located in Bengo Province, Angola, covers nearly 65,500 residents living in approximately 19,800 households. This study aims to describe the main causes of deaths (CoD) occurred within the HDSS, from 2009 to 2012, and to explore associations between demographic or socioeconomic factors and broad mortality groups (Group I—Communicable diseas...
Main causes of death in Dande, Angola: results from verbal autopsies of deaths ...
Rosário, Edite Vila Nova; Costa, Diogo; Timóteo, Luís; Rodrigues, Ana Ambrósio; Varanda, Jorge; Nery, Susana Vaz; Brito, MiguelBackground - The Dande Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) located in Bengo province, Angola, covers nearly 65,500 residents living in approximately 19,800 households. This study aims to describe the main causes of deaths (CoD) occurred within the HDSS, from 2009 to 2012, and to explore associations between demographic or socioeconomic factors and broad mortality groups (Group I-Communicable disea...
Main causes of death in Dande, Angola: results from Verbal Autopsies of deaths ...
Rosário, Edite; Costa, Diogo; Timóteo, Luís; Rodrigues, Ana Paula; Varanda, Jorge; Vaz Nery, Susana; Brito, MiguelBackground: The Dande Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) located in Bengo Province, Angola, covers nearly 65,500 residents living in approximately 19,800 households. This study aims to describe the main causes of deaths (CoD) occurred within the HDSS, from 2009 to 2012, and to explore associations between demographic or socioeconomic factors and broad mortality groups (Group I—Communicable diseas...
On the contribution of Angola to the initial spread of HIV-1
Pineda-Peña, Andrea-Clemencia; Varanda, Jorge; Sousa, João Dinis; Theys, Kristof; Bártolo, Inês; Leitner, Thomas; Taveira, Nuno; Vandamme, Anne-MiekeAngola borders and has long-term links with Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as well as high levels of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) genetic diversity, indicating a potential role in the initial spread of the HIV-1 pandemic. Herein, we analyze 564 C2V3 and 354 pol publicly available sequences from DRC, Republic of Congo (RC) and Angola to better understand the initial spread of the virus in this region. ...