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Ebola impact on African health systems entails a quest for more international and local resilience: the case of African Portuguese speaking countries

INTRODUCTION: Ebola epidemics have shown to have significant impacts on many aspects of healthcare systems. African countries have been facing many difficulties while addressing Ebola epidemics, moreover due to both lack of resources and fragmented involvement of national and international entities. The participation of multiple organizations has created serious problems of coordination of aid and […]
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Sleeping sickness: towards elimination?

Sleeping Sickness (SS) is being controlled in most African countries after the epidemic that started in the 1990’s.WHO had a major role in building awareness and implementing solutions that covered capacity building, diagnosis optimization, drug availability and distribution and vector control measures.Although much remains to be done specially in countries with civil instability, the Atlas […]
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Dengue and other arbovirus transmitted by mosquitos: different impacts on human health from the both sides of Atlantic Ocean 

Among the arthropode-borne viruses, dengue (DENV) stands out as the one which most significantly impacts human health. Although its distribution is somewhat determined the ecological conditions that limit the spread of its main vetor (Aedes aegypti), over recent years its geographic spread has been relentless, facilitated by the geographic dispersal of Ae. albopictus. DENV may […]
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Creole Societies in the Portuguese Colonial Empire

In 2004, a conference was held at King’s College London to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Charles Boxer. The theme of the conference was the development of the culturally mixed ‘Portuguese’ societies in Asia, Africa and America, which reflected Boxer’s own interest in the social history of Portugal’s overseas empire. Although the conference […]
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A brief history of mycobacteriology at IHMT/UNL 

This article reviews the studies on tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases at the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, over more than one hundred years of history of this institute. If in the first decades these studies were focused on the public care and support to the local health programs to control tuberculosis in all […]
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