Background: Mosquito-borne diseases involving arboviruses represent expanding threats to sub-Saharan Africa imposing as considerable burden to human and veterinary public health. In Mozambique over one hundred species ...

Health sector priorities and interventions to prevent and manage noncommunicable diseases and injuries (NCDIs) in low- and lower-middle-income countries (LLMICs) have primarily adopted elements of the World Health ...

Mozambique has low levels of detection, treatment, and control of hypertension. However, data on target organ damage and clinical outcomes are lacking. The au-thors aimed at characterizing the clinical ...

To describe the strategies used to design and implement three postgraduate programs at Lúrio University (UniLúrio), a resource-limited setting, in northern Mozambique. We conducted a longitudinal, descriptive case study ...

In Africa together with risk factors for cardiovascular diseases such as systemic hypertension, diabetes, tobacco smoking, alcohol consumption and overweight, there is an important role of poverty-related conditions in ...

Medical training in developing countries has continuously faced challenges to produce the needed number of cadres and maintain the needed quality standards. Mozambique, a low-income country in Southern Africa, has a major ...

This review aims at highlighting the need to better understand the pathogenesis and natural history of endomyocardial fibrosis when set against its changing endemicity and disease burden, improvements in diagnosis, and new ...

Data characterizing risk factors and long-term outcome studies on human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated pulmonary hypertension (PH) in Africa are lacking.The Pan African Pulmonary Hypertension Cohort, a multinational ...

Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) constitutes a leading cause of premature death and incapacity in Africa, where it is encountered in younger people, and shows a much faster and more malignant course than that seen in Europe ...

Although entirely preventable, rheumatic heart disease (RHD), a disease of poverty and social disadvantage resulting in high morbidity and mortality, remains an ever-­present burden in low-­income and middle-­income countries ...