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1 Department of Microbial Biochemical and Food Biotechnology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 2 Malaria Alert Centre, Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi, 3 Instituto Nacional de Saúde, Maputo, Mozambique, 4 Eastern and Southern Africa Centre of International Parasite Control, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya, 5 Department of Epidemiology and B...

a r t i c l e i n f o Pollen records from Lake Malawi, Africa spanning the last 135 kyr show substantial and abrupt vegetation response to multiple episodes of extreme aridity between 135 and 75 ka. Peaks in both the relative abundance and total production of Podocarpus pollen define the first two of these drought episodes. From 135 to 127 and again from 117 to 105 kyr BP, Podocarpus percentage...

With one of the highest rates of poverty and HIV in the world, Malawi faith-based organizations (FBOs), non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and community-based organizations (CBOs) are expected to provide tangible and emotional support to people living with HIV (PLWH). Using Lin's social capital theoretical approach, we examine the perspective of PLWH regarding the adequacy of support respon...

This paper contributes to conflicting evidence on the link between poverty and risky sexual behaviour by examining the effect of wealth status on age at first sex, condom use, and multiple partners using nationally representative adolescents' data from Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malawi, and Uganda. The results show that the wealthiest girls in Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Malawi had later sexual debut co...

This paper studies the trends in life expectancy in Malawi since independence and offers possible explanations regarding inter-temporal variations. Descriptive analysis reveals that the life expectancy in Malawi has trailed below the Sub Saharan African average. From the 1960s through to the early 1980s life expectancy improved driven mainly by rising incomes and the absence of HIV/AIDS. In the...

Data on prevalence of hepatitis E virus (HEV) in Malawi is limited. We tested blood samples from HIV-uninfected and -infected populations of women and men enrolled in research studies in Malawi during 1989-2008 to determine the seroprevalence of HEV, hepatitis A virus (HAV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), and hepatitis C virus (HCV). Samples were tested for IgG against HEV, total antibodies against H...

Data from prospective mortality studies are used to estimate the annual probability of dying among currently married men (20-59) in rural populations with high and moderate HIV prevalence in, respectively, Nyanza Province, Kenya, and in three areas of Malawi. The observed annual probability of dying for males interviewed in an initial wave of each study and then reported as deceased in follow-u...

This review is a result of a literature search on published data in peer reviewed or grey publications on tuberculosis in Malawi. A Pubmed search yielded 214 publications, none were found in Popline. For grey literature the existing documentation at the National TB Control Program (NTP) in Malawi was used including operational research publications, case finding, cohort analyses and global docu...

Background VillageReach, in partnership with the Malawi Ministry of Health, the Malawi College of Health Sciences and the University of Washington Global Medicines Program, is addressing key barriers to medicines availability by implementing a new approach to training, deployment, and support of an enhanced pharmacy assistant cadre. Key aspects of the program include curriculum redesign to incl...