The national scale-up of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Malawi is based on the public health approach, with principles and practices borrowed from the successful DOTS (directly observed treatment, short course) tuberculosis control framework. The key principles include political commitment, free care, and standardized systems for case finding, treatment, recording and reporting, and drug procu...

We report a case of Plasmodium falciparum and P. malariae mixed infection in a patient who had been living in Malawi. This is the first case of P. malariae reported in Sri Lanka in 4 decades. The presence of both parasites was confirmed by microscopy and polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The history strongly indicated that the infection had been acquired from Malawi. The patient had liver dysfun...

There is evidence that physical inactivity and dietary factors are more common among modifiable risk for noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) which on the rise in Malawi. Football has been shown to have a wide range of health-related benefits health education programs, including promotion activity as potential intervention addressing NCDs. In Malawi, few football-based programs implemented address A...

We use nationally representative survey data from two neighboring countries in Southern Africa – Zambia and Malawi – to characterize the current status of rural land rental market participation by smallholder farmers. We find that rural rental market participation is strongly conditioned by land scarcity, and thus is more advanced in Malawi than in lower-density Zambia. In both countries, we fi...

Present Prof Nairn Wilson (Chair) (King’s College London) Dieter Schönwetter (Rapporteur)(University of Manitoba) Simran Chana (King’s College London) Rosemary Coates (Curtin University, Western Australia) Charlie Ding (King’s College London) Jenny Gallagher (King’s College London) Lynn Johnson (University of Michigan) Marta Kobus (King’s College London) Brian Millar (King’s College London) Cor...

In 1993, Malawi became the first African country to replace chloroquine with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine nationwide in response to high rates of chloroquine-resistant falciparum malaria. To determine whether withdrawal of chloroquine can lead to the reemergence of chloroquine sensitivity, the prevalence of the pfcrt 76T molecular marker for chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria was ...

This monograph presents a detailed study on the language planning situation in Malawi. It explores the historical and political processes, as well as current practices of language planning in the country. The discussion further reconstructs and demonstrates how sociopolitical change has been perceived in Malawi and how this perception has translated into language planning in education, the medi...

In recent years our efforts to control malaria successfully have been severely hampered by widespread and highlevel resistance to front-line antimalarial drugs. In 1993, Malawi had to replace chloroquine (CQ) with sulphadoxinepyrimethamine (SP) as the first-line antimalarial owing to unacceptably high rates of CQ failure. Thirteen years after this change in treatment policy, Malawi is faced wit...

Prior to 2011, uptake of PMTCT in Malawi remained low despite increased access to antiretrovirals. We sought to understand barriers to PMTCT in rural Malawi. Twenty-two HIV-infected pregnant and postpartum women in PMTCT programs were interviewed in Nkhoma, Malawi, between April-May 2010. All women were staged by WHO criteria or CD4 count as ineligible for three-drug treatment by Malawi's HIV G...

Sulfadoxine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum undermines malaria prevention with sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine. Parasites with a highly resistant mutant dihydropteroate synthase (dhps) haplotype have recently emerged in eastern Africa; they negated preventive benefits of sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine, and might exacerbate placental malaria. We explored emerging lineages of dhps mutant haplotypes in Malaw...