With the new National Population Policy poised for adoption and the Malawi Growth and Development Strategy forthcoming, the Government of Malawi is strengthening its efforts to expand family planning services, particularly at the community level. Over time, investments in family planning will lead to ...
The National Community Health Strategy recommends one Health Surveillance Assistant (HSA) for every 1000 people to provide integrated care delivery of primary care at the catchment facility level [71]. It recommends that Community Health Volunteers (CHVs), aligned to the level and scope of the ...
Dewa O, Makoka D, et al. Assessing Capacity and Implementation Status of the Disaster Risk Management Strategy for Health and Community Disaster Resilience in Malawi. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science. 2021;12(5):673-688. doi:10.1007/s13753-021-00369-z GHI. 2020. ‘2020 Global ...
p pBackground/p pPrimary Health Care (PHC) is a strategy endorsed for attaining equitable access to basic health care including treatment and prevention of endemic diseases. Thirty four years later, its implementation remains sub-optimal in most Sub-Saharan African countries that access to health ...
Targeted health care spending for those with diabetes, arthritis, and other chronic illnesses may be a good endeavour for the Government of Malawi. Over and above the three policy strands, a potentially useful strategy is to consider the contexts and design [12] of social protection programmes. ...
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This strategy helps to avoid blame or violence [18]. Both genders discussed not suspecting an HIV infection, because they did not feel sick enough to suspect an HIV infection. Previous literature has discussed at length that patients may not test for HIV, because they did not think HIV was...
While the available evidence from eastern and southern Africa suggests that assisted ICT can be an effective, efficient, cost-effective, acceptable, and low-risk strategy to implement in the region, it reveals that feasibility barriers to implementation exist. This study aims to inform the design ...
Supportive supervision to improve service delivery in low-income countries: is there a conceptual problem or a strategy problem? BMJ Glob Health, 4 (2019), Article e001151 CrossrefGoogle Scholar 7 J Cheshire, L Jones, L Munthali, et al. The FAST-M complex intervention for the detection and...
Public education that dispels notions that mental disorders are incurable and nonresponsive to typical care is needed (Gureje & Alem, 2000) as well as an effective strategy to decrease stigma (Bird et al., 2011). To accomplish these goals, governments, as well as nongovernmental organizations,...