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El Niño: Malawi’s harvest of maize – its staple food – may fall by 22.5% this year
El Niñ o Malawi harvest of maize staple food
2024/4/1
Maize is the preferred staple of most of southern Africa. In Malawi it supplies two-thirds of national calorie intake. Nine out of 10 farming households produce maize and devote over 70% of their...
Low serum ω-3 and ω-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids and other metabolites are associated with poor linear growth in young children from rural Malawi
arachidonic acid carnitine dehydroepiandrosterone docosahexaenoic acid malnutrition pregnenolone sulfate stunting
2018/11/21
Background: Stunting affects ～25% of children <5 y of age and is associated with impaired cognitive and motor development and increased morbidity and mortality. The pathogenesis of stunting is poorly ...
Soya, maize, and sorghum–based ready-to-use therapeutic food with amino acid is as efficacious as the standard milk and peanut paste–based formulation for the treatment of severe acute malnutrition in children: a noninferiority individually randomized controlled efficacy clinical trial in Malawi
severe acute malnutrition anemia iron deficiency anemia efficacy ready-to-use therapeutic food amino acid sorghum soya cow milk
2018/11/16
Background: Development of more cost-effective ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) is a global public health priority. To date, previous lower-cost recipes have been less effective than the standard ...
Soya, maize, and sorghum–based ready-to-use therapeutic food with amino acid is as efficacious as the standard milk and peanut paste–based formulation for the treatment of severe acute malnutrition in children: a noninferiority individually randomized controlled efficacy clinical trial in Malawi
severe acute malnutrition anemia iron deficiency anemia efficacy ready-to-use therapeutic food amino acid sorghum soya cow milk
2018/11/20
Background: Development of more cost-effective ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) is a global public health priority. To date, previous lower-cost recipes have been less effective than the standard ...
The association of serum choline with linear growth failure in young children from rural Malawi
betaine children choline linear growth malnutrition trimethylene-N-oxide stunting undernutrition
2018/12/3
Background: Choline is an essential nutrient for cell structure, cell signaling, neurotransmission, lipid transport, and bone formation. Choline can be irreversibly converted to betaine, a major sourc...
A Microsimulation Study of the Effects of Divorce and Remarriage on Lifetime Risks of HIV/AIDS in Rural Malawi
Divorce Remarriage Lifetime Risks HIV/AIDS Rural Malawi
2016/3/18
The prevalence of HIV infection varies with age and marital status with infection rates being influenced by the age- and marital-status-related frequency of intercourse and, most obviously, the infect...
Subjective Expectations in the Context of HIV/AIDS in Malawi
HIV/AIDS Malawi Literacy Numeracy Mortality Risk-reduction strategies
2016/3/18
In this paper we present a newly-developed interactive elicitation methodology to collect probabilistic expectations in a developing country context with low levels of literacy and numeracy, and we ev...
How Beliefs about HIV Status Affect Risky Behaviors:Evidence from Malawi
HIV Testing Results Beliefs MDICP Sexual behavior Disease prevalence Risk Exposure
2016/3/18
Many HIV testing programs in Africa and elsewhere aim to reduce risk-taking behaviors by providing individuals with information about their own HIV status. This paper examines how beliefs about own HI...
Cohort Profile: The Migration and Health in Malawi (MHM) Study
Demography Population Ecology Social and Behavioral Sciences Sociology
2016/3/17
The Migration and Health in Malawi (MHM) Study focuses on a key challenge in migration research:
although it has long been established that migration and health are closely linked, identifying the ef...
Effects of maternal and child lipid-based nutrient supplements on infant development: a randomized trial in Malawi
cognitive development iLiNS project infant development lipid-based nutrient supplements maternal micronutrient supplements
2018/11/28
Background: Maternal and infant undernutrition is associated with poor infant development; however, few studies have examined the impact of combined pre- and postnatal dietary supplementation on infan...
Direct and Indirect Effects of Malawi’s Public Works Program on Food Security
Food Security agricultural inputs
2015/9/18
Labor-intensive public works programs (PWPs) are an important social protection
tool in low-income settings, intended to supplement income of poor households and improve
public infrastructure. The M...
Credit Market Consequences of Improved Personal Identification: Field Experimental Evidence from Malawi
Credit Market Field Experimental Evidence
2015/9/18
We implemented a randomized field experiment in Malawi examining
borrower responses to being fingerprinted when applying for loans.
This intervention improved the lender’s ability to implement dynam...
Facilitating Savings for Agriculture: Field Experimental Evidence from Malawi
savings agriculture Africa
2015/9/18
We implemented a randomized intervention among Malawian farmers aimed at
facilitating formal savings for agricultural inputs. Treated farmers were offered the
opportunity to have their cash crop har...
Kwacha Gonna Do? Experimental Evidence about Labor Supply in Rural Malawi
Experimental Evidence Labor Supply
2015/9/18
I use a field experiment to estimate the wage elasticity of employment in the day
labor market in rural Malawi. Once a week for 12 consecutive weeks, I make job offers for
a workfare-type program to...
A Look Back to Look Forward: A Multidisciplinary Evaluation of an mHealth Service in Malawi
Multidisciplinary Evaluation mHealth Service Malawi
2015/7/28
A Look Back to Look Forward: A Multidisciplinary Evaluation of an mHealth Service in Malawi.