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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Directorate of Economics is undertaking collaborative research on food security with Michigan State University's Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics. We wish to acknowledge the financial and substantive support of the Ministry of Agriculture (MINAG) of Mozambique and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Maputo to complete foo...

RATIONALE Mozambique has recorded cyclically epidemic outbreaks of cholera. Antibiotic therapy is recommended in specific situations for management and control of cholera outbreaks. However, an increase in resistance rates to antibiotics by Vibrio cholerae has been reported in several epidemic outbreaks worldwide. On the other hand, there are few recent records of continuous surveillance of ant...

doi:10.4102/ojvr.v81i2.728 http://www.ojvr.org Authors: Christopher J. Kasanga1 Rahana Dwarka2 Gaothlele Thobokwe3 Jemma Wadsworth4 Nick J. Knowles4 Misheck Mulumba5 Ezekia Ranga6 Jimis Deve11 Cornelius Mundia10 Patrick Chikungwa8 Laureta Joao9 Raphael Sallu7 Mmeta Yongolo7 Philemon N. Wambura1 Mark M. Rweyemamu1 Donald P. King4 Affiliations: 1Southern African Centre for Infectious Diseases Sur...

a r t i c l e i n f o 18 O analyzed in tests of surface-dwelling planktonic foraminifer Globigerinoides ruber from two marine sediment cores recovered in the Mozambique Channel off the Zambezi River, southwestern tropical Indian Ocean, reveal climate variability over the last 17 kyr. Analysis of samples collected from the water column of the Mozambique Channel validates that Mg/Ca in G. ruber r...

THE ROLE OF TRADITIONAL AUTHORITIES IN RURAL LOCAL GOVERNANCE IN MOZAMBIQUE: CASE STUDY OF THE COMMUNITY OF

Introduction In Mozambique about 10% of deaths in children are due to ARI 1. Although influenza (Flu) virus may be implicated in these infections, little is known about the circulation of this virus in the country. Thus, Mozambique implemented the influenza surveillance based on sentinel sites, facing a great challenge due to several factors. One of them is the proper influenza case definition ...

Laura Moro, Azucena Bardají, Tacilta Nhampossa, Inacio Mandomando, Elisa Serra-Casas, 4 Betuel Sigaúque, Pau Cisteró, Virander S. Chauhan, Chetan E. Chitnis, Jaume Ordi, 5 Carlota Dobaño, Pedro L. Alonso, Clara Menéndez, and Alfredo Mayor 6 7 1 Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB), Hospital ClínicUniversitat de 8 Barcelona, Spain; 2 Centro de Investigaçao em Saúde da Manh...

This essay presents a history of articulations between the state apparatus and the realm of the “customary” in northern Mozambique, throughout periods of colonial rule, Socialism, civil war, and postcolonial democratic regimes. The analysis pivots around the ethnographic study of magico-religious rituals combined with postsocialist political rallies. In Mozambique, current recognition of chieft...

Mozambique has achieved remarkable macroeconomic success over recent decades, boasting one of the world’s highest rates of GDP growth. However, absolute poverty remains persistent, spilling over into social unrest. To better understand the link between aggregate growth and household welfare, this study focuses on labour market trends. We ask: (a) what has happened to jobs in Mozambique over the...