In early 2014, dengue cases were reported from northern Mozambique, 30 years after the last outbreak. We identified potential dengue vector species in three northern towns, Pemba, Nampula and Nacala, and one southern town, Maputo, during the outbreak in April 2014. A major dengue vector species, Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti, was found in all these towns. The dominant vector subspecies in the north...

Tuberculosis (TB) remains an important public health concern, and a leading cause of disease and death worldwide. Mozambique is one of the few high TB burden countries where TB figures have not improved in recent years, with an estimated TB incidence in 2013 of 552 cases per 100 000 population [1]. With 58% of all notified TB cases being HIV-positive, Mozambique also has one of the highest TB/H...

This paper revisits three reports on ergonomic aspects of development initiatives taking place in Industrially Developing Countries (IDCs). These include a macro-ergonomics intervention in a habitation community in Cape Verde (aimed at designing solutions contributing to sustainable development), the evolution of poultry growers' control strategies as an integrative broiler operation is introdu...

Referee3: Review of the manuscript "Reconciling single chamber Mg/Ca with whole test d18O in surface to deep dwelling planktonic foraminifera from the Mozambique Channel“ by J. Steinhardt, C. Cleroux, L. de Nooijer, G.-J. Brummer, R. Zahn, G. Ganssen, and G.-J. Reichart. This manuscript presents a large data set of single specimen stable isotopes and single chamber Mg/Ca on four species of plan...

While economic growth generally reduces income poverty, there are pronounced differences in the strength of this relationship across countries. Typical explanations for this variation include measurement errors in growth-poverty accounting and countries’ different compositions of economic growth. We explore the additional influence of economic structure in determining a country’s growth-poverty...

Fertility in sub-Saharan Africa remains the highest in the world. Yet, the average contraceptive prevalence in Africa is the lowest in major world regions and there is limited understanding of the mechanisms through which community context shapes contraceptive use in the region. Using data from the 2011 Mozambique Demographic and Health Survey, we examine the mechanisms through which community ...

Empowering citizens in making Governments more accountable and transparent in the services they provide has gained more attention in the last few years both in the developing and in the developed world. At the basis of any such exercise, information and data collection activities play an important role. In this paper we report on a pilot we conducted in collaboration with the Ministry of Educat...

M. MAGNANO SAN LIO1*, S. MANCINELLI2, L. PALOMBI2, E. BUONOMO2, A. DORO ALTAN1, P. GERMANO1, N.A. MAGID3,4, A. PESARESI1, E. RENZI5, P. SCARCELLA2, I. ZIMBA6 and M.C. MARAZZI7 Community of Sant’Egidio, DREAM Programme, 00153 Rome, Italy, Department of Public Health, Tor Vergata University, 00133 Rome, Italy, University La Sapienza, 00185 Rome, Italy, Machava DREAM Centre, Matola, Mozambique, He...

Medical care in Mozambique is mostly provided through the national health service of the Ministry of Health. All primary healthcare and HIV-related services are provided free of charge. There are over 1500 public sector health facilities in Mozambique and most of these are primary healthcare centres. Although all hospitals have a laboratory, only a quarter of the health centres have a formal la...

Mozambique, like many African countries, is already highly susceptible to climate variability and extreme weather events. Climate change threatens to heighten this vulnerability. In order to evaluate potential impacts and adaptation options for Mozambique, we develop an integrated modelling framework that translates atmospheric changes from general circulation model projections into biophysical...