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Providing universal access to antiretroviral therapy in Thyolo, Malawi through task shifting and decentralization of HIV/AIDS care

Bemelmans M, van den Akker T, Ford NP, Philips M, Zachariah R,  et al.
2010-12-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
2010-12-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
Objective  To describe how district-wide access to HIV/AIDS care was achieved and maintained in Thyolo District, Malawi. Method  In mid-2003, the Ministry of Health and Médecins Sans Fro...
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Keeping health staff healthy: evaluation of a workplace initiative to reduce morbidity and mortality from HIV/AIDS in Malawi

Bemelmans M, van den Akker T, Pasulani O, Saddiq Tayub N, Hermann K,  et al.
2011-01-05 • Journal of the International AIDS Society
2011-01-05 • Journal of the International AIDS Society
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: In Malawi, the dramatic shortage of human resources for health is negatively impacted by HIV-related morbidity and mortality among health workers and their relative...
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Review

Vital Registration in Rural Africa: Is There a Way Forward to Report on Health Targets of the Millennium Development Goals?

Zachariah R, Mwagomba B, Misinde D, Mandere BC, Bemeyani A,  et al.
2011-03-02 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2011-03-02 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Vital registration - the systematic recording of births and deaths - has both legal and health significance. In particular, accurate recording and reporting of vital statistics are publi...
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Mortality reduction associated with HIV/AIDS care and antiretroviral treatment in rural Malawi: evidence from registers, coffin sales and funerals

Mwagomba B, Zachariah R, Massaquoi M, Misindi D, Manzi M,  et al.
2010-05-04 • PLOS One
2010-05-04 • PLOS One
BACKGROUND: To report on the trend in all-cause mortality in a rural district of Malawi that has successfully scaled-up HIV/AIDS care including antiretroviral treatment (ART) to its popu...
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Outcomes and safety of concomitant nevirapine and rifampicin treatment under programme conditions in Malawi

Moses M, Zachariah R, Tayler-Smith K, Misinde D, Foncha C,  et al.
2010-02-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
2010-02-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
SETTING: Thyolo District Hospital, rural Malawi. OBJECTIVES: To report on 1) clinical, immunological and virological outcomes and 2) safety among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infec...
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Can non-monetary incentives increase health facility deliveries? The experience in Thyolo District, Malawi

van den Akker T, Radge G, Mateyu A, Mwagomba B, Bemelmans M,  et al.
2021-03-01 • International Health
2021-03-01 • International Health
Attendance for intrapartum care in Thyolo District, Malawi, was studied following implementation of a locally valued, non-monetary incentive. The number of facility-based deliveries per ...
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Managing and monitoring chronic non-communicable diseases in a primary health care clinic, Lilongwe, Malawi

Manjono RC, Mwagomba B, Ade S, Ali E, Ben-Smith A,  et al.
2016-06-21 • Public Health Action
2016-06-21 • Public Health Action
SETTING
Patients with chronic non-communicable diseases attending a primary health care centre, Lilongwe, Malawi.

OBJECTIVE
Using an electronic medical record monitorin...
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Unacceptable attrition among WHO stages 1 and 2 patients in a hospital-based setting in rural Malawi: can we retain such patients within the general health system?

Tayler-Smith K, Zachariah R, Massaquoi M, Manzi M, Pasulani O,  et al.
2010-05-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2010-05-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
A study conducted among HIV-positive adults in WHO clinical stages 1 and 2 was followed up at Thyolo District Hospital (rural Malawi) to report on: (1) retention and attrition before and...
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Commentary

Retention and attrition during the preparation phase and after start of antiretroviral treatment in Thyolo, Malawi, and Kibera, Kenya: implications for programmes?

Zachariah R, Tayler-Smith K, Manzi M, Massaquoi M, Mwagomba B,  et al.
2011-08-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2011-08-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Among adults eligible for antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Thyolo (rural Malawi) and Kibera (Nairobi, Kenya), this study (a) reports on retention and attrition during the preparation phas...
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Very early mortality in patients starting antiretroviral treatment at primary health centres in rural Malawi

Zachariah R, Harries K, Massaquoi M, Manzi M, Arnould L,  et al.
2009-07-08 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
2009-07-08 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
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To report on the cumulative proportion of deaths occurring within 3 months of starting antiretroviral treatment (ART) and to identify factors associated with such deaths, ...
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Peripartum infections and associated maternal mortality in rural Malawi

van den Akker T, de Vroome S, Mwagomba B, Ford NP, van Roosmalen J
2011-08-01 • Obstetrics and Gynecology
2011-08-01 • Obstetrics and Gynecology
To assess associations between maternal mortality and severe morbidity and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, uptake of antiretroviral therapy, obstetric infections, and nonob...