BACKGROUND In Angola the maternal mortality ratio is among the highest in the world. Medical students are an important target for intervention. OBJECTIVES To evaluate how students perceive the curricular unit of Gynecology and Obstetrics (G&O) in a public institution of reference in Angola. METHODS The study involved a sample of 147 students of the faculty of Medicine of the University Agos...

South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA), Stellenbosch, South Africa Correspondence to [email protected] Summary The epidemic of HIV in Angola started later and stabilized at lower levels than in most countries in southern Africa. Some studies suggest that certain high risk groups account for a substantial part of the total number of infections. With ...

This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in Luanda, Angola. A total of 157 rectal samples were collected from children visiting a pediatric hospital in Luanda in March 2015. Fifty-seven imipenem-nonsusceptible enterobacterial isolates were recovered, most of which were non-clonally related. The blaOXA-181 (50/57) and blaNDM-1 (7/57) carbapenemase...

This paper studies the relationship between civil war and private investment in a poor, resource abundant country using microeconomic data for Angola. We focus on diamond mining Þrms and conduct an event study on the sudden end of the conßict, marked by the death of the rebel movement leader in 2002. We Þnd that the stock market perceived this event as “bad news” rather than “good news” for com...

The Angolan State has been looking for a way to strengthen the health sector with balanced workforce which nursing is cornerstone. This study reviews evolution of education in Angola, order better understand contribution educational development. Integrative review unpublished and published documents literature on Angola. qualitatively analyzed discussed using policy triangle framework proposed ...

This article examines the real convergence hypothesis in OPEC countries (Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Gabon, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Venezuela) using time series techniques and allowing for structural breaks. The main results show lack of support for income convergence in OPEC countries. We only find evidence of catch-up with the...

The Companhia de Diamantes de Angola, or Diamang, mined for diamonds in colonial Angola from 1917 until independence in 1975. The enterprise's Health Services Division (SSD) was responsible for supplying mine managers with an African labour force comprised of healthy, and therefore productive, employees. In practice, though, this otherwise 'healthy' system did not always work. While SSD personn...

This paper presents Fuzzy Logic and Dempster-Shafer belief theory to encounter the most important and unexpected enemies of the human been the epidemic diseases through the prediction of the risk of African Trypanosomiasis spreading. This work is estimated basic probability assignments using Fuzzy membership functions which capture vagueness. The advantage of this method is a new method to obta...

A new species from the wet miombo woodlands of Tanzania and Angola, Argyrella richardsiae Veranso-Libalah & G.Kadereit, sp. nov. (Melastomataceae, Melastomateae), is described and illustrated. Although the widespread Argyrella canescens also occurs in Tanzania and northeastern Angola, A. richardsiae is morphologically most similar to Argyrella bambutorum known only from the Northwest of Cameroo...