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  Chronic care of HIV and noncommunicable diseases: How to leverage the HIV experience

  Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2011

  This report, published by UNAIDS, explores options for leveraging the HIV experience to inform chronic care for people living with HIV and noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Key findings include:
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  Central Asia: hotspot in the worldwide HIV epidemic

  The Lancet, 2010

  This paper, published in the Lancet, posits that the HIV epidemic in central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) has accelerated since 2000. The authors argue that this expansion in the epidemic is largely attributable to escalating injection drug use, reflecting central Asia's geographic position along major drug trafficking routes.
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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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  Effective HIV/AIDS and reproduction health information to people with disabilities

  Centre for Social Research, University of Malawi, 2004

  Since the first case of AIDS was diagnosed in 1985, the prevalence of HIV and deaths from HIV/AIDS and related illnesses in Malawi have been rising steadily. In the early 1980s, HIV prevalence among pregnant women attending antenatal clinics was at 2 percent and this rose an estimated 35 percent in 2000.
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  Policy and Institutional Framework Review of the fisheries sector in Malawi

  Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2008

  This paper presents issues for consideration in the development of a proposal for possible funding to address the policy and institutional framework for the fisheries sector in Malawi. It is based on consultations with officials from the Department of Fisheries (DoF), donor agencies, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), district level officials and fishing communities in Mangochi district.
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  Multiple and concurrent sexual partnership in Malawi: a formative qualitative study

  Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2009

  The premise that multiple concurrent sexual partnerships (MCP), coupled with inconsistent use of condoms, has been linked with increased risk of HIV infection. In places where HIV infection has shown significant signs of decline, such as in Uganda, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Thailand, evidence strongly suggests that partner reduction has played a crucial role in infection reduction.
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  HIV/AIDS and food security in Malawi Report

  Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2003

  Research in Malawi and elsewhere has shown that poverty exacerbates ill-health, and that ill-health can result in even deeper poverty. Morbidity and mortality from HIV/AIDS contributes to lost productivity, indebtedness, and severe social disruptions of families and communities.
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  Agricultural growth and poverty reduction in Malawi: past performance and recent trends

  2008

  The agricultural sector continues to be the most important sector in the Malawian economy. It accounts for 39 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP), 85 per cent of the labour force and generates about 83 per cent of foreign exchange earnings. National surveys estimate that crop production accounts for 74 per cent of all rural incomes.
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  Child labour in commercial agriculture :the case of Malawi’s tea industry

  Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2005

  This document is a report of a baseline study of child labour in Malawi’s tea industry.
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  Study to inform the selection of an appropriate wage rate for public works programmes in Malawi

  2004

  The Malawi Government, with assistance from the Department for International Development (DfID) of the Government of the United Kingdom, is implementing an Inception Phase for the National Safety Nets Programme (NSNP). The NSNP constitutes Pillar III of the Malawi Poverty Reduction Strategy (MPRS).

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