1 Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi 2 Department of Eye and Vision Science, University of Liverpool, UK 3 St. Paul’s Eye Unit, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, UK 4 College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi 5 Blantyre Malaria Project, Blantyre, Malawi 6 Department of Osteopathic Medical Specialities, Michigan State Uni...

Malawi is a landlocked country, stretching over 94 084 square kilometres of land and 24 404 square kilometres of fresh water, whose economic backbone is agriculture. Malawi’s HIV positivity rate is estimated at 10.0% (Table 1).1 HIV prevalence varies widely by geographic regions, where it is 14.5% in southern Malawi, 7.6% in central Malawi and 6.6% in northern Malawi. Prevalence also differs by...

Author details Department of Clinical Research, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK. Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Program, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi. Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK. University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Dignit...

Cichlid fishes have evolved tremendous morphological and behavioral diversity in the waters of East Africa. Within each of the Great Lakes Tanganyika, Malawi, and Victoria, the phenomena of hybridization and retention of ancestral polymorphism explain allele sharing across species. Here, we explore the sharing of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) between the major East African cichlid asse...

OBJECTIVE There have been longstanding concerns over Malawian doctors migrating to high-income countries. Early career is a particularly vulnerable period. After significant policy changes, we examined the retention of recent medical graduates within Malawi and the public sector. METHODS We obtained data on graduates between 2006 and 2012 from the University of Malawi College of Medicine and ...

In April 1991, the Malawi College of Medicine opened its doors to Malawi medical students who had undertaken all but the final year of their undergraduate training in the United Kingdom. The first batch qualified with the MB BS degrees of the University of Malawi in September 1992. Since then and up to July 1998, 112 doctors have been produced. They are all Malawians, 90 males and 22 females, 2...

Cichlid fishes have evolved tremendous morphological and behavioral diversity in the waters of East Africa. Within each of the Great Lakes Tanganyika, Malawi, and Victoria, the phenomena of hybridization and retention of ancestral polymorphism explain allele sharing across species. Here, we explore the sharing of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) between the major East African cichlid asse...

BACKGROUND Malawi has one of the lowest physician densities in the world, at 1.1 doctors per 100,000 population. Undergraduate training of doctors at the national medical school has increased considerably in recent years with donor support. However, qualified doctors continue to leave the public sector in order to work or train abroad. We explored the postgraduate plans of current medical stude...

BACKGROUND There is a critical shortage of healthcare workers in sub-Saharan Africa, and Malawi has one of the lowest physician densities in the region. One of the reasons for this shortage is inadequate retention of medical school graduates, partly due to the desire for specialization training. The University of Malawi College of Medicine has developed specialty training programs, but medical ...

We thank O. S. Ogah for his interest in our article “Cardiac Disease Patterns in Northern Malawi: Epidemiologic Transition Perspective”1. In his letter,2 Ogah agrees with us that the current epidemiologic transition in Northern Malawi is characterized by new patterns of cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Ogah, however, believes that we might have been incorrect when we stated that there was no simi...