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    HIV, nutrition, and food: a practical guide for technical staff and clinicians

    Family Health International, 2007
    The spread of HIV through many regions of the world is highlighting the complex and evolving relationship between food, HIV infection, and nutritional status. This guide is aimed at technical staff and clinicians providing concise practical information on HIV, nutrition and food by providing:
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    The Malawi fertiliser subsidy programme: politics and pragmatism

    Future Agricultures Consortium, 2008
    Food insecurity in Malawi has become endemic, with around 70-80% of rural households short of self-produced staple foods for four to five months of the year. This Future Agricultures brief reviews the Malawian government's Fertiliser Subsidy Programme (FSP), introduced in 2005/2006 as a means of attempting to tackle the ever-pressing food crisis.
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    Malawi Social Cash Transfer Pilot Scheme

    This website represents the social cash transfer pilot scheme established by the Government of Malawi in Mchinji District in 2006.
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    Is poverty a driver for risky sexual behaviour? evidence from national surveys of adolescents in four African countries

    African journal of Reproductive Health, 2007
    This article, published in the African Journal of Reproductive Health provides evidence on the link between poverty and risky sexual behaviour. It examines the effect of wealth status on age at first sex, condom use, and multiple partners using data from more than 19,000 adolescents from Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malawi and Uganda.
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    Women and food crises: how US food aid policies can better support their struggles. A discussion paper

    Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2007
    Over the last few decades, food crises have become a distressingly common phenomena. Women are often at the centre of these emergencies, though the disproportionate impact of hunger on women is too often hidden within statistics, similarly, the role of women in providing solutions to these crises is also often overlooked.
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    Malawi Economic Justice Network (MEJN)

    Malawi Economic Justice Network (MEJN) is a coalition of civil society organisations, which have activities in the field of economic governance.
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    The impact of social cash transfers on children

    Malawi Social Cash Transfer Pilot Scheme, 2007
    This paper analyses the degree to which social cash transfer schemes that do not explicitly target HIV and AIDS affected persons or households reach HIV and AIDS affected households. By comparing different schemes in Zambia, Malawi and South Africa, the study identifies the main factors that determine both the share of HIV and AIDS affected households reached, and the impact achieved.
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    EPAs: which way for Malawi?

    Malawi Economic Justice Network, 2007
    This paper reports on a stakeholder meeting that took place on the 4th December 2007 to discuss the issue of making trade work for poor people in Malawi. It is particularly concerned with the signing of an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) and whether this will hinder, or contribute to Malawi’s development.
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    Metaphors we love by: conceptualizations of sex among young people in Malawi

    Bioline, 2007
    The statistics regarding HIV/AIDS prevalence among young people in sub-Saharan Africa are well-known and often cited, with the 15 to 24 year old category of this population accounting for about half of all new infections in the region. Socio-cultural contexts have long been recognized as important domains for understanding sexual behaviour and pathways of HIV infection.
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    Protecting the next generation in sub-Saharan Africa: learning from adolescents to prevent HIV and unintended pregnancy

    Alan Guttmacher Institute, 2007
    This report from the Guttmacher Institute presents key findings from nationally representative surveys conducted in 2004 among 12–19-year-olds in four African countries—Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malawi and Uganda—with the goal of guiding programmes, policies and investments aimed at improving adolescent sexual and reproductive health.

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