Southern Malawi
Care-seeking for diarrhoea in Southern Malawi : attitudes, practices and implications for diarrhoea control
... Abstract: This paper examined care-seeking behaviour and its associated risk factors when a family member had diarrhoea. Data was obtained from a survey conducted in Chikwawa, a district in Southern Malawi. ...
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Net age, but not integrity, may be associated with decreased protection against Plasmodium falciparum infection in southern Malawi
... in southern Malawi, which were conducted to assess malaria ...in southern Malawi: Blantyre (an urban, low transmission setting), Chikhwawa (a rural, low altitude, high transmis- sion setting), ...
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Simulation models predict that school age children are responsible for most human to mosquito Plasmodium falciparum transmission in southern Malawi
... Southern Malawi is one area where, despite high cover- age of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs), the malaria burden remains high. Recent cross-sectional studies have found that 5–15-year old, school-age ...
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Dust or disease? Perceptions of influenza in rural Southern Malawi
... The study had limitations. First, the broad definition of chimfine, encompassing influenza but also a runny nose, cold and sneezing more generally, complicates interpretation of the findings; parents may see dust as a ...
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Entomological indices of malaria transmission in Chikhwawa district, Southern Malawi
... The study was carried out in Chikhwawa district (16° 1' S; 34° 47' E), in the Lower Shire Valley, southern Malawi. Based on hospital in-patient records, this area was assumed to have perennial malaria ...
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A semi-automated algorithm to quantify scarp morphology (SPARTA): application to normal faults in southern Malawi
... four southern Malawi fault scarps, located at the southern end of the East African Rift system: the Bilila–Mtakataka fault (BMF) and three previously unreported scarps – Thy- olo, Muona and ...
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Community knowledge variation, bed-net coverage, the role of a district health care system and their implications for malaria control in Southern Malawi
... This paper presents data on the pattern of knowledge of caregivers, bed-net coverage and the role of a rural district healthcare system, and their implications for malaria transmission, treatment, prevention and control ...
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Biofuels and livelihoods: Empirical findings on the welfare impacts of Jatropha cultivation in the Mangochi district, Southern Malawi
... in southern Malawi. Household survey data from the southern region of Malawi collected in 2014 from 303 smallholders using purposive and random selection strategies were ...future ...
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Pregnancy decisions of married women living with HIV during wide access to antiretroviral therapy in southern Malawi
... The informants were recruited from ART Clinics in- volved in the treatment and care of PLWH at two HIV and AIDS centres in southern Malawi, Chikwawa- Ngabu Rural Hospital and Chiradzulu-Ndunde Health Centre ...
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Analysis of the Impact of Aquatic Weeds in the Shire River on Generation of Electricity in Malawi: A Case of Nkula Falls Hydro Electric Power Station in Mwanza District, Southern Malawi
... A three-year electricity generation data between 2007 and 2009 was sourced from the power generation house at Nkula Falls Hydro Electricity Power Station in Mwanza district of southern Malawi. The case ...
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Pattern of maternal knowledge and its implications for diarrhoea control in Southern Malawi : multilevel thresholds of change analysis
... Malawi’s health service delivery system is consisted of four levels: community, primary, secondary, and tertiary care levels. Community level focuses on preventive interventions and service is mainly provided through ...
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oa Malawi Medical Journal - Maternal Anthropometry and Weight Gain as Risk Factors for Poor Pregnancy Outcomes in a Rural Area of Southern Malawi
... In an assessment of nutritional status in a communities of developing regions,Jelliffe contends that nutrition plays a part in weight gain and concluded that well nourished women add[r] ...
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How should assent to research be sought in low income settings? Perspectives from parents and children in Southern Malawi
... in Malawi, we plan further work to develop policies on assent that take account of this het- erogeneity, aiming for guidance that informs the prac- tical implementation of research ethics ...
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Assessment of implementation of the health management information system at the district level in southern Malawi
... A lack of comprehensive information to guide monitoring and evaluation, policy formulation, and resource allocation negatively affects the day-to-day running of health services in Malawi. Insufficient information ...
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Understanding gender power relations, transactional sex and HIV in fishing communities in Southern Malawi
... In Malawi there is one wet season a year so most farmers grew and harvested one maize crop a year (this means the months preceding the harvest maize is very expensive to ...
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Transactional sex and HIV: understanding the gendered structural drivers of HIV in fishing communities in Southern Malawi
... Farmer et al. (2006) draw on the work of John Galtung and his concept of structural violence as a way of describing social relationships that place individuals and populations in harm’s way [21]. These are described as ...
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Elderly People and Reproductive Decisions of Couples Living with HIV in Southern Malawi
... The FGDs were carried out in Chichewa, the vernacular language in Malawi. Focus group discussions were useful for exploring people’s knowledge and experiences and can be used to examine not only what people think ...
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Determinants of severity and progression of diabetic retinopathy in Southern Malawi
... the Malawi Diabetic Retinopathy Study (MDRS) under the direct supervision of my PhD supervisors: Professor Simon Harding, Professor Theresa Allain, Dr Marta Garcia-Finana and Dr Carl ...
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Understanding the challenges to caring for low birthweight babies in rural southern Malawi: a qualitative study exploring caregiver and health worker perceptions and experiences
... results Caregivers referred to LBW babies as weak, with poor health, stunted growth, developmental problems and lack of intelligence. Poor nutrition of the mother and illnesses during pregnancy were perceived to be ...
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Arsenic occurrence in Malawi groundwater
... concentrations across these areas. Quantified arsenic concentrations in the Mwanza Valley survey in 2018 near Kakoma were all below 3 μg/l with the exception of one piezometer sample at 4 μg/l. It was therefore concluded ...
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