The economic recovery is strengthening, as a successful vaccination campaign and from COVID-related restrictions dominate headwinds the worsening international environment. Growth projected at 3.8 percent this year, rising to 5 in 2023 first liquefied natural gas (LNG) project enters production. Food fuel prices have pushed inflation double digits. Monetary policy has been proactive, including ...

BACKGROUND In Mozambique most of demographic data are obtained using census or sample survey including indirect estimations. A method of collecting longitudinal demographic data was introduced in southern Mozambique since 1996 (DSS -Demographic Surveillance System in Manhiça district, Maputo province), but the extent to which it yields demographic measures that are typical of southern rural Moz...

OBJECTIVE To determine the drug resistance profile of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Mozambique. METHODS We analyzed secondary data from the National Tuberculosis Referral Laboratory, in the city of Maputo, Mozambique, and from the Beira Regional Tuberculosis Referral Laboratory, in the city of Beira, Mozambique. The data were based on culture-positive samples submitted to first-line drug susc...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate treatment-seeking behaviour, financial impact and time lost due to malaria events, in southern Mozambique and eastern South Africa. METHODS In-depth household surveys (828 in Mozambique and 827 in South Africa) were analysed. An asset index was calculated using principal component analysis to allow comparison across socio-economic groups. Direct costs of seeking care an...

BACKGROUND Epidemiologic studies of the prevalence of rheumatic heart disease have used clinical screening with echocardiographic confirmation of suspected cases. We hypothesized that echocardiographic screening of all surveyed children would show a significantly higher prevalence of rheumatic heart disease. METHODS Randomly selected schoolchildren from 6 through 17 years of age in Cambodia a...

The flows around Madagascar feed into the Agulhas Current, but there have been few hydrographic studies of the flow within the Mozambique Channel. Some cruise and altimetric data point to this being a region of high mesoscale activity, with eddies migrating through the area. Here we show how ocean colour data throw light on the behaviour of eddies in the southern Mozambique Channel.

Ivan Manhiça, Eusebio Macete, Frank Cobelens and Pedro L. Alonso Manhiça Health Research Center (CISM), Maputo, Mozambique. ISGlobal, Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB), Hospital Clínic – Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. Ministry of Health, National Tuberculosis Program, Maputo, Mozambique. Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Academic Medic...

The main paleopositions that have been proposed for Madagascar are examined after a recent geological and geophysical survey in the Mozambique Channel. Results from that survey show a north-south ridgelike feature and favor the theory that Madagascar fitted against Somalia rather than against Mozambique to the west.

M. Ansaruzzaman,* N.A. Bhuiyan,* G. Balakrish Nair,* David A. Sack,* Marcelino Lucas,† Jacqueline L. Deen,‡ Julia Ampuero,§¶ Claire-Lise Chaignat,# and The Mozambique Cholera Vaccine Demonstration Project Coordination Group *Centre for Health and Population Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh; †Ministério da Saude, Maputo, Mozambique; ‡International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, Korea; §Médecins Sans Front...

The paper explores the development of ecological sanitation (EcoSan) within the small-town context of Lichinga, Niassa Province, Mozambique. The paper looks at how ESTAMOS (a Mozambican NGO) and WaterAid introduced EcoSan in Lichinga, how families and communities have responded to EcoSan, and key lessons learned during the process to date that could be relevant to others within and beyond Mozam...