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  External evaluation of roll back malaria: report of RBM stakeholder interviews

  Roll Back Malaria, World Health Organization (WHO), 2002

  This report, produced by Health Partners International for Roll Back Malaria (RBM), summarises the findings of interviews conducted as part of the 2002 external evaluation of RBM. Telephone interviews were conducted with a range of stakeholders in seven countries: Kenya, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Eritrea, Burkina Faso, Bolivia and India.
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  Malaria: a major cause of child death and poverty in Africa

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2004

  This document, produced by UNICEF and Roll Back Malaria (RBM), reviews the malaria burden in Africa and examines the role for UNICEF in taking forward the RBM initiative. The document focuses particularly on the critical importance of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) for malaria control and outlines UNICEF’s approach to increasing the use of ITNs.
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  Heath economics: cost analysis and cost containment in tuberculosis control programmes: the case of Malawi

  World Health Organization, 1996

  Public health systems must be run on economic principles. Put simply, where resources are limited, it is necessary to make choices on how to use them. In health care as in all other aspects of life, the best choice is to find the most efficient combination of resources and to use each resource in the most efficient way.
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  Transnational governance and the pacification of youth: the contribution of civic education to disempowerment in Malawi

  Centre for Civil Society, South Africa, 2004

  This paper argues that civic education is a central arena where the meaning of democracy and human rights is defined in Malawi.
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  The differential effects on rural income and poverty during a decade of radical change in Malawi

  BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004

  This paper reports on a study of rural families in a densely populated area of Malawi, tracking how families have moved up or down in relation to income and welfare from 1986 to 1997. The timing of the study was significant, as major liberalisation policies affecting small-holders were put into place from 1987 onwards.
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  Scaling-up HIV/AIDS interventions through expanded partnerships (STEPs) in Malawi

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This IPFRI discussion paper examines the scaling-up of the STEPS initiative (Scaling Up HIV/AIDS Interventions Through Expanded Partnerships) in Malawi, and the factors which interfere with this process.
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  Poverty in Malawi

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 1998

  This paper presents the poverty analysis of the 1997-98 Malawi Integrated Household Survey. The analysis develops basic needs poverty lines, using consumption-based measures of welfare to classify households and individuals as poor and non-poor. The analysis provides poverty and inequality estimates for Malawi’s population.
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  Poverty reduction strategies and relevant learning in higher agricultural education: case studies from Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2003

  This paper analyses agricultural higher education in relation to poverty reduction strategies in four African countries: Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda.The paper addresses three key issues in the four African countries:how the PRSPs are reflected in official policies, implementation plans and fund allocations to agricultural educationhow case study countries agricultural educ
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  How can African anaesthetists cut caesarean section risks?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Caesarean section is the most common surgical procedure in sub-Saharan Africa. But it is much more risky for mothers and babies there than in wealthier regions. Researchers from the Malawi College of Medicine and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine looked into the reasons for this difference.
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  Preventing tuberculosis among health workers in Malawi

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2002

  This paper, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO), discusses the results of a study to assess progress following the introduction of guidelines for the control of tuberculosis (TB) infection in hospitals in Malawi. Findings show that the guidelines were not uniformly implemented. Only one hospital introduced voluntary counselling and testing for its staff.

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