BACKGROUND International reports recommend the improvement in the amount and quality of training for mental health workers in low and middle income countries. The Scotland-Malawi Mental Health Education Project (SMMHEP) has been established to support the teaching of psychiatry to medical students in the University of Malawi. While anecdotally supportive medical educational initiatives appear o...

BACKGROUND Publications productivity, the number of scientific articles published, is a measure of a country's scientific output. If measured carefully it can be a useful indicator that describes a countries' research activity. Our objective was to analyze trends in publications originating from Malawi between 1996-2006. METHODS The MEDLINE/PubMed database, a registry of articles from over 5,...

1 Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, PO Box 30096, Chichiri, Blantyre 3, Malawi 2 University of Liverpool, Department of Eye and Vision Science, Faculty of Health & Life Sciences, University of Liverpool Room 356, 4th Floor, UCD Building, Daulby Street, Liverpool L69 3GA, UK 3 Royal Liverpool University Hospital, St. Paul’s Eye Unit, Prescot St, Liverpool, Merseyside L...

BACKGROUND There is growing interest in the migration of doctors from Africa to developed nations. Little attention has been made in understanding the flow of doctors into African countries. OBJECTIVE To describe the nationality, country of primary qualification as a doctor and specialties of doctors registered in Malawi in 2003. METHODS Review of Medical Council of Malawi 2003 register and...

Background The Lablite project captured information on access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) at larger health facilities ('hubs') and lower-level health facilities ('spokes') in Phalombe district, Malawi and in Kalungu district, Uganda. Methods We conducted a cross-sectional survey among patients who had transferred to a spoke after treatment initiation (Malawi, n=54; Uganda, n=33), patients...

This paper examines the ethnic differentials in fertility in Malawi using data from the 2000 Malawi Demographic and Health survey. Fertility was estimated for each ethnic group using various procedures and multiple regressions were employed in order to understand factors responsible for ethnic differentials in fertility in the country. Although all ethnic groups in Malawi exhibit high fertility...

LADDER is a research project funded by the Policy Research Programme of the UK Department for International Development (DFID) that seeks to identify alternative routes by which the rural poor can climb out of poverty. LADDER is working with nearly 40 villages and 1,200 households in Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi and Kenya to discover the blocking and enabling agencies in the institutional environme...

Background Malawi is one of the sub-Saharan African countries adversely affected by HIV/AIDS. Option B+ was adopted by Malawi from 1st July 2011 as an effective way of managing HIV through lifelong ART in pregnancy. Poor ART outcomes such as high default rates have been reported, raising concerns of setbacks on PMTCT progress. We assessed the outcomes of HIV infected pregnant clients on Option ...

The purpose of this paper is to trace the evolution development aid in Malawi from 1964, when country became independent, date. It also analyses sustainable light democracy and local reactions former by citizens. contends that needs be linked notion Malawi. notes was a key word popularly used during reign founding president Malawi, Dr Kamuzu Hastings Banda (1964 1994). For Banda, it critical ha...

1. Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi 2. Beit CURE International Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi 3. Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom 4. Centre for Global Surgery, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 5. Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculo...