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  HIV/AIDS and food security in Malawi

  Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2003

  In December 2002/January 2003, the World Food Programme commissioned a study to provide an analysis of the linkages between HIV/AIDS and food security in Malawi. It also aimed to build an analysis of the linkages between HIV/AIDS and profile of the people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs) particularly focusing on the urban populations.
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  Why might clinicians in Malawi not offer HIV testing to their patients?

  Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2010

  HIV testing may be a cost-effective means of reducing transmission rates. Since Malawi is severely impacted by HIV/AIDS and detection of infected persons is sub-optimal, reasons clinicians might not offer HIV testing to their patients should be identified. This report aims to identify common reasons clinicians in Malawi might not offer HIV testing.
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  Using cross country panel regression analysis to relook at the relationship between armed conflict and HIV prevalence in Africa

  Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2010

  This paper explores the relationship between armed conflict and HIV prevalence in Africa. The document reviews the suggestion that conflict can exacerbate the HIV epidemic through sex with infected soldiers, war-related rape, poverty-related unsafe sex, and transactional sex.
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  Declining child mortality in northern Malawi despite high rates of infection with HIV

  World Health Organization, 2010

  This brief paper investigates whether the decrease in Malawi’s under-5 mortality rates in recent years was tangible or was it that previous surveys underestimated these rates. Furthermore, the paper focuses on HIV infection, seeking to determine its exact role in Malawian children’s mortality.
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  Identifying and addressing community barriers to HIV counselling and testing to improve utilisation of services

  National Research Council of Malawi, 2006

  It is estimated that approximately 110 000 new infections occur every year in Malawi, making HIV/AIDS the leading cause of death in the most productive age group of 15-49 years resulting in an estimated 86,000 adult and child deaths annually.
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  Mid-term review of the capacity development program for the national management of the HIV/AIDS response

  Eldis Document Store, 2005

  A Capacity Development Programme for the National Management of HIV and AIDS Response for Malawi  (2002-2006) was formulated to focus specifically on developing institutional support, appropriate systems and mechanisms for effective and timely management of national HIV/AIDS response.
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  Growing older in Africa and Asia: Multicentre study on ageing, health and well-being. Global health Action journal, supplement 2

  Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, 2010

  Selection of articles looking at the status of the elderly in Asia and Africa, resulting from the collaboration of the International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health (INDEPTH) and the World Health Organization (WHO) Study on Global AGEing and Adult Health (SAGE). Article titles include:
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  What works for women and girls: evidence for HIV/AIDS interventions

  Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network, 2010
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  Knowledge, attitudes and practices of antenatal women and midwives towards prevention of mother to children transmission of HIV in Malawi.

  National Research Council of Malawi, 2007

  The Malawi Ministry of Health and its partners have identified prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) as an important component in the prevention of HIV/AIDS in the country. This would enable that an “HIV/AIDS-free” generation is assured.
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  HIV/AIDS-Related Knowledge and Self-Reported Sexual Behaviour of Secondary School Students in Southern Malawi: Implications of AIDS Education and Counselling

  Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2010

  Monitoring of the HIV/AIDS epidemic has become extremely significant in Malawi not only for the purpose of assessing the magnitude and spread of the problem but also for planning and designing appropriate and relevant intervention strategies.

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