BACKGROUND Each year, schools across Scotland send their students on exchange programmes to Malawi. Between 2005 and 2009, 22.8% of Scotland's new cases of schistosomiasis were from freshwater exposure in Malawi, with 41.5% diagnosed in 15-24 year olds. In January 2011, a 17-year-old male presented to our urology department with visible haematuria following freshwater exposure during a school t...

BACKGROUND Many patients on antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Malawi have or will develop non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The current capacity of ART sites to provide care for NCDs is not known. AIM This study aimed to assess the capacity of ART sites to provide care for hypertension and diabetes in rural Malawi. SETTING Twenty-five health centres and five hospitals in two rural districts i...

Stunting and poor child development are major public health concerns in Malawi. Integrated nutrition and early child development (ECD) interventions have shown potential to reduce stunting, but it is not known how these integrated approaches can be implemented in Malawi. In this paper, we aimed to evaluate the current jobs status of community health workers and their potential to implement inte...

AIMS To present the perceptions of women in rural Malawi regarding the health problems affecting neonates and infants and to explore the relevance of these perceptions for child health policy and strategy in Malawi. METHODS Women's groups in Mchinji district identified newborn and infant health problems (204 groups, 3484 women), prioritised problems they considered most important (204 groups,...

Macadamia is an essential commodity crop in Malawi. The nuts are a lucrative and used for household consumption, income generation among farming families as foreign exchange earning at country-level. production Malawi has increased significantly recent years. the seventh top producer of macadamia valued £23.5 million, with global market share 3%. In 2018, country was fourth-largest exporter tha...

ViewPoint:Gentamicin for treatment of gonococcal urethritis in Malawi Gift Kamanga1, Chisale Mhango2, Lillian B. Brown3 1.University of North Carolina project, Kamuzu Central Hospital 2.Ministry of Health, Reproductive Health Unit 3..University of North Carolina at Chapel hill Gonococcal urethritis continues to be a public health problem in Malawi. Urethritis accounts for over 20% of outpatient...

Abstract Background Maternal and child health care (MCH) services aim at improving the overall outcomes of both mother newborn. Intimate partner violence (IPV) has been linked with poor under usage MCH services. In Malawi, IPV is a persistent problem, while services’ uptake remains constant challenge. However, there limited information on association between in Malawi. The study examined use am...

Vegetables are key to nutrition and economic security, especially for developing societies. Research in vegetables has been historically key. From early domestication efforts modern-day breeding value addition, research enabled vegetable productivity support the nutritional needs of Impactful research, however, requires competent capacity a guiding framework, continuously changing socio-climati...

In the past two to three years, world has been heavily affected by infectious coronavirus disease and Malawi not spared due its interconnection with neighboring countries. There is no management tool identify model vulnerabilities of Malawi’s districts in prioritizing health services as far prevalence other diseases are concerned. The aim this study was vulnerability all using Geographic Inform...