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Searching with a thematic focus on Health systems, HIV and AIDS in Malawi

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  Getting research into policy and practice

  Knowledge Services, IDS, 2009

  The true test of the effectiveness of health and development research is whether people use it – for decision-making, influencing, referencing, or most importantly, to bring about change.Development actors are paying increasing attention to the question of how research, despite barriers, can fulfil its potential to improve policy and practice.
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  System-wide effects of the Global Fund in Malawi: baseline study report

  2005

  In January 2002, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GF) was established as an additional financial instrument to address these three diseases. Malawi has so far received a substantial GF grant for HIV/AIDS, and another grant for malaria has been approved, although the grant agreement with the GF has not yet been signed.
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  Strengthening the research to policy and practice interface: exploring strategies used by research organisations working on sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS

  Health Research Policy and Systems, 2011

  As part of the Sexual Health and HIV Evidence into Policy (SHHEP) project researchers and communications experts came together to share and analyse the strategies they used to influence policy.
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  Using Touchscreen Electronic Medical Record Systems to Support and Monitor National Scale-Up of Antiretroviral Therapy in Malawi

  PLoS Medicine, 2010

  This article describes the rationale and experience of using a touchscreen electronic medical record (EMR) system at the point-of-care (POC)  to monitor and support antiretroviral therapy (ART) scale up in Malawi.
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  Social inequality and HIV-testing: comparing home- and clinic-based testing in rural Malawi

  Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, 2009

  The plan to increase HIV testing is a cornerstone of the international health strategy against the HIV/AIDS epidemic, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Using material form ongoing demographic research project conducted in three rural areas of Malawi, this paper highlights a problematic aspect of that plan: the reliance on clinic- rather than home-based testing.
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  The double burden of human resource and HIV crises: a case study of Malawi

  Human Resources for Health, 2008

  This paper published in Human Resources for Health examines the two crises that dominate the health sectors of sub-Saharan African countries: those of human resources and of HIV.
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  Food assistance programming in the context of HIV

  Academy for Educational Development, USA, 2007

  This guide from the FANTA project outlines key steps for integrating food assistance and nutrition into HIV programmes.
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  A national survey of the impact of rapid scale-up of antiretroviral therapy on health-care workers in Malawi: effects on human resources and survival

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2007

  This paper from the World Health Organization (WHO) aims to assess the human resources impact of Malawi’s rapidly growing antiretroviral therapy (ART) programme and balance this against the survival benefit of health-care workers who have accessed ART themselves.
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  Help wanted: confronting the health care worker crisis to expand access to HIV/AIDS treatment

  Médecins Sans Frontières, 2007

  This Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) report examines the impact of human resources shortages witnessed by MSF teams in Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa, focusing largely on nurses in rural areas. It describes how MSF teams and local partners are trying to overcome human resource constraints.
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  Effects of the global fund on reproductive health in Ethiopia and Malawi: baseline findings

  Partners for Health Reformplus, 2005

  This report by Partners for Health Reformplus, assesses the effects of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis and Malaria (GF), and the activities it supports on reproductive health and family planning programmes in Ethiopia and Malawi.

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