Malawi, like other countries with a generalized HIV epidemic, is striving to reach the ambitious targets set by UNAIDS known as the three 90's for testing, provision of antiretroviral therapy and viral suppression. Assisted by Malawi's progressive policies on HIV/AIDS, it appears possible that Malawi will attain these targets, but only by employing innovative program approaches to service deliv...

1 International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Paris, France 2 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK 3 International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, South-East Asia Regional Office, New Delhi, India 4 International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, North America Office, New York, NY, USA 5 Department of HIV and AIDS, Ministry of Health,...

We examine violent conflict's spillover effects on food insecurity in Uganda, Ethiopia, and Malawi. Using a contiguity matrix weighted the distance between housing units data from Living Standard Measurement Survey, we find statistically significant effect of conflict security Ethiopia Uganda. Statistically indirect were negative within Malawi positive Ethiopia. Direct conflicts other covariate...

E-commerce (electronic commerce) provides a convenient way of buying or selling products online and is popular choice in certain segments societies worldwide. The significance e-commerce has been observed during the COVID-19 crisis, where customer preferences shifted from physical stores to due lockdowns social distancing. be more effective developed countries than developing such as Malawi dif...

Despite promotion by many stakeholders to improve maternal health outcome in many developing countries including Malawi, many analysts agree that the utmost success in maternal health will arise if maternal health care services are an unparallel led source for women's health care solutions for any problem related to childbirth. Health advocates worldwide claim that even though maternal services...

CONTEXT Abortion is legally restricted in Malawi, and no data are available on the incidence of the procedure. METHODS The Abortion Incidence Complications Methodology was used to estimate levels of induced abortion in Malawi in 2009. Data on provision of postabortion care were collected from 166 public, nongovernmental and private health facilities, and estimates of the likelihood that women...

BACKGROUND Maternal education is strongly associated with young child nutrition outcomes. However, the threshold of the level of maternal education that reduces the level of undernutrition in children is not well established. This paper investigates the level of threshold of maternal education that influences child nutrition outcomes using Demographic and Health Survey data from Malawi (2010), ...

This paper attempted to identify whether access to reproductive health services partly explains use of modern contraception in Malawi. Recent changes in Malawi's population policy have brought the state's population ambitions into alignment with the consensus reached at the International Conference on Population and Development held in Cairo in 1994. Concurrently, Malawi witnessed a large incre...

1. Introduction: Legacy of food insecurity in Malawi Reports of a devastating famine in Malawi first surfaced as rumors whispered in rural areas in the country around October 2001. However, little was done by way of action. Government officials in Lilongwe and members of the donor community were hard pressed to believe or act on the problem even as civil society groups such as the Malawi Econom...

BACKGROUND Life-threatening infections present major challenges for health systems in Malawi and the developing world because routine microbiologic culture and sensitivity testing are not performed due to lack of capacity. Use of empirical antimicrobial therapy without regular microbiologic surveillance is unable to provide adequate treatment in the face of emerging antimicrobial resistance. Th...