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Gender, Weather Shocks and Welfare: Evidence from Malawi

, 2018
This paper explores the gender-differentiated effects of weather shocks on households’ welfare in Malawi using panel data aligned with climatic records.
S. Asfaw, Giuseppe Maggio
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Multi-month prescriptions, fast-track refills, and community ART groups: results from a process evaluation in Malawi on using differentiated models of care to achieve national HIV treatment goals

Journal of the International AIDS Society, 2017
Introduction: In order to facilitate scale‐up of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Malawi, innovative and pragmatic models have been developed to optimize the efficiency of HIV service delivery.
Margaret L. Prust, C. Banda, R. Nyirenda, F. Chimbwandira, T. Kalua, A. Jahn, M. Eliya, Katie L. Callahan, P. Ehrenkranz, Marta R Prescott, E. McCarthy, Elya Tagar, A. Gunda   +12 more
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Gut function among children treated for severe acute malnutrition: A cohort study in Uganda

JPGN Reports, EarlyView.
Abstract Objectives Impaired gut function in children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is associated with morbidity. We aimed to assess changes in six biomarkers representing different domains of gut function among children with complicated SAM during nutritional rehabilitation, and to identify predictors of these changes.
Betty Lanyero, Nicolette Nabukeera–Barungi, Ezekiel Mupere, Bikila S. Megersa, Iris Weidema, Pingping Jiang, Maria Wiese, Musemma K. Muhammed, Henrik Friis, Hanne Frøkiær, Dennis S. Nielsen, Vibeke Brix Christensen, Benedikte Grenov   +12 more
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Naming practices in colonial and post-colonial Malawi

Inkanyiso, 2012
In African societies naming practices invariably reflected an important rite of passage as a cultural practice, which was always in sync with each society’s ordinary citizens’ socio-cultural and historical conditions.
Themba Moyo
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Harvesting by draining ponds

, 1998
GTZThe Malawi-German Fisheries and Aquaculture Development Project (MAGFAD) from 1987 to 1998 was jointly implemented by the Malawi Department of Fisheries and ...

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General_Read_Me.txtISFM Malawi

, 2019
Read me file for ISFM Malawi ...
ISFM Malawi (6943355), Annemie Maertens (4464601)   +1 more
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Constraints to implementing the Essential Health Package in Malawi. [PDF]

, 2011
Increasingly seen as a useful tool of health policy, Essential or Minimal Health Packages direct resources to interventions that aim to address the local burden of disease and be cost-effective. Less attention has been paid to the delivery mechanisms for
Arnab Acharya, Palmer, Natasha, Acharya Arnab, Natasha Palmer, Dirk H. Mueller, Lungu, Douglas, Dirk H Mueller, Mueller, Dirk H, Mueller Dirk H., Acharya, Arnab, Douglas Lungu, Palmer Natasha, Lungu Douglas   +12 more
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Economic cost analysis of door‐to‐door community‐based distribution of HIV self‐test kits in Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe

Journal of the International AIDS Society, 2019
HIV self‐testing (HIVST) is recommended by the World Health Organization in addition to other testing modalities to increase uptake of HIV testing, particularly among harder‐to‐reach populations.
C. Mangenah, Lawrence Mwenge, L. Sande, N. Ahmed, Marc d’Elbée, Progress Chiwawa, Tariro Chigwenah, Sarah Kanema, M. Mutseta, Mutinta Nalubamba, Richard Chilongosi, Pitchaya P. Indravudh, E. Sibanda, M. Neuman, Getrude Ncube, J. Ong, O. Mugurungi, K. Hatzold, C. Johnson, H. Ayles, E. Corbett, F. Cowan, H. Maheswaran, F. Terris-Prestholt   +23 more
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Beyond Skin and Eyes: The Medical and Social Burden of Oculocutaneous Albinism in Africa: A Narrative Review

JEADV Clinical Practice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Oculocutaneous albinism (OCA) is a genetic disorder found worldwide, but its impact is particularly pronounced in the African continent. This results from both a higher prevalence and the persistent myths and superstitions surrounding the condition in many African communities.
Rebecca Donadoni, Niccolò Capurro, Alessandro Svizzero, Valeria Brazzelli   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Malawi Religion Project: [PDF]

Scholars have recently become increasingly interested in the role religion plays in the responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. Here, we present the Malawi Religion Project (MRP), which provides data to examine the relationship between ...
Jenny Trinitapoli, Jimi Adams
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