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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...
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.
Strengthening the home-to-facility continuum of newborn and child health care through mHealth: Evidence from an intervention in rural Malawi
mHealth Newborn and child health Home-to-facility continuum of care
2015/7/28
This paper assesses the impact of a mobile health (mHealth) project on uptake of home-based care for newborn and child health, and investigates the extent to which uptake of home-based care resulted i...
Where there is no phone: The benefits and limitations of using intermediaries to extend the reach of mHealth to individuals without personal phones in Malawi
mHealth Intermediaries Phone access
2015/7/28
The purpose of this study is to identify the benefits and limitations associated with intermediaries to provide access to and increase utilization of an mHealth intervention amongst people without per...
Fostering the use of quasi-experimental designs for evaluating public health interventions: insights from an mHealth project in Malawi
Evaluation Quasi- experimental design Malawi
2015/7/28
The evidence base to support the growing field of mHealth is relatively nascent, with most studies lacking the level of rigor needed to inform scale up of interventions. This paper investigates the im...
Prevalence and Determinants of Unintended Pregnancies in Malawi
Unintended pregnancy Demographic and Health Survey prevalence
2015/7/27
Available statistics indicate high levels of unintended pregnancies in Africa. This study examines the prevalence and determinants of unintended pregnancies in Malawi based on 2,144 pregnant women ext...
Integrating the Demographic and Health Surveys, IPUMS-I, and TerraPopulus to Explore Mortality and Health Outcomes at the District Level in Ghana, Malawi, and Tanzania
DHS IPUMS TerraPopulous
2015/7/27
In this paper, we first show how the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) can be integrated with other data sources to expand the types of variables available for analysis of population and health out...
The introduction of cost-sharing strategies such as user-fees for health care in developing countries has received increasing attention due to declining government expenditure on health and reduced do...
Using prospective longitudinal data, this article describes recent changes in the levels of adult mortality among married men aged 20–59 in selected rural areas of Malawi and Kenya, and in the age pat...
Anticipatory child fostering and household economic security in Malawi
child fostering households Malawi Sub-Saharan Africa
2014/11/26
Background: While there is a rich literature on the practice of child fostering in sub-Saharan Africa, little is known about how fostering impacts receiving households, as few studies consider househo...
Sibling support and the educational prospects of young adults in Malawi
economic transfers education siblings social capital
2014/11/26
Background: Extended kin networks are an important social and economic resource in Africa. Existing research has focused primarily on intergenerational ties, but much less is known about "lateral" tie...
When the group encourages extramarital sex: Difficulties in HIV/AIDS prevention in rural Malawi
AIDS/HIV extramarital fixed-effects Malawi marriage panel data sexual intercourse social networks Sub-Saharan Africa
2014/11/24
Background: Recent research on the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa has highlighted the relevance of married individuals‘ extramarital sexual behavior for the spread of the disease. At the same time...