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Public health capacity development in Africa

Reasons for implementation success despite health system constraints

Funding Information: This study was supported by funds from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung – BMBF, https://www.bmbf.de/ ) through funds to the Hans-Böckler Foundation (HBS – https://www.boeckler.de ) and the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT – www.fct.pt ). PM received a Research Scholarship from the HBS (Scholarship ID: 385...

Strikes of physicians and other health care workers in sub-Saharan African coun...

Funding Information: Funda\u00E7\u00E3o para a Ci\u00EAncia e a Tecnologia for funds to GHTM - UID/04413/2020 and LA-REAL \u2013 LA/P/0117/2020. Publisher Copyright: Copyright © 2024 Manguele, Sidat, Ferrinho, Cabral and Craveiro.; Introduction: Strikes in the health sector have been of growing concern, given their disruptive nature, negatively impacting the provision of health care and jeopardizing the well-be...

Morbidity associated with schistosomiasis in adult population of Chókwè distric...

Publisher Copyright: © 2024 Serra et al. Funding: This work was funded by the "Joint WHO-AFRO/TDR/EDCTP Small Grants Scheme for implementation research on infectious diseases of poverty 2017”, whose responsible investigator was RT. Additionally, it received financial support from “Associação para Desenvolvimento da Medicina Tropical”, whose responsible investigator was JTS and from Fundação para a Ciência e a T...

Epidemiology and risk factors for Schistosoma spp. infection in adult populatio...

Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease that remains an important public health problem. Mozambique is one of the countries with the highest prevalence of the disease. Adults with chronic schistosomiasis can act as a reservoir for continued infection transmission. Data about schistosomiasis in this population in Mozambique is limited. In order to determine schistosomiases prevalence and risk factors in ...

Point-of-care ultrasonography for S. haematobium associated urinary tract morbi...

Schistosomiasis is a parasitic and disabling waterborne neglected tropical disease caused by a trematode belonging to genus Schistosoma. The burden of urinary schistosomiasis morbidity is relatively high in Sub-Saharan Africa. Ultrasound has proved to be useful in the identification of not only bladder lesions, but also of the upper urinary tract. The point-of-care ultrasound helps to objectively assess organ l...

A look back at the strike by Mozambican doctors in 2013

Funding Information: The APC was funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia for funds to GHTM—UID/04413/2020 and LA-REAL – LA/P/0117/2020. Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2024.; Background: The occurrence of strikes in the health sector has been an increasing concern around the world, given their negative impact on the provision of services and care to patients. The Mozambican doctors' strike in 2013...

Is workplace violence against health care workers in Mozambique gender related?

Funding Information: We acknowledge support of the Niassa Provincial Health Directorate (provided administrative authorisation and support for the research to be carried out). We are also thankful to all study participants for their time and effort by taking part in the study. Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia for funds to research centre GHTM UID/04413/2020. Funding Information: We acknowledge support of th...

Overlooking workplace violence in health workforce planning in sub-Saharan Africa

Violence against health care workers in the workplace in Mozambique – An unreco...

Funding Information: We acknowledge support of the Niassa Provincial Health Directorate (provided administrative authorization and support for the research to be carried out). We are also thankful to all study participants for their time and effort by taking part in the study. Professor Inês Fronteira advised on the statistical analysis. The Research Center on Global Health and Tropical Medicine (GHTM) receives...