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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Chikwawa"”.
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Impact of school feeding programme on children’s anthropometry and learning outcome in Chikwawa district - Malawi.
… Feeding Programme (SFP) in public schools in Chikwawa, one of the worst hit Tropical Cyclone Freddy and Elnino towns in Malawi where thousands of people died and millions were displaced without food to eat. Despite well implemented School Feeding Programme, there remains a need to …
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Impact of school feeding programme on children’s anthropometry and learning outcome in Chikwawa district - Malawi.
… Feeding Programme (SFP) in public schools in Chikwawa, one of the worst hit Tropical Cyclone Freddy and Elnino towns in Malawi where thousands of people died and millions were displaced without food to eat. Despite well implemented School Feeding Programme, there remains a need to …
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The design, development and evaluation of an SMS contraceptive behaviour change intervention - a case study in Chikwawa, Malawi
… change intervention delivered via mHealth in Chikwawa, Malawi. Three qualitative studies were executed to identify health needs in the area and to understand cultural practices which may influence intervention effectiveness. The Behaviour Change Wheel was then used to design an SMS …
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Geostatistical design and analysis for estimating local variations in malaria disease burden
… perimeter of Majete Wildlife Reserve (MWR) in Chikwawa, southern Malawi. The third paper is a commentary on a paper by Ferreira and Gamerman (2015), which addressed the effect of preferential sampling of the locations at which to measure a spatial process. In the fourth paper, we present the …
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Geostatistical methods for disease prevalence mapping
… surveys conducted in two consecutive years in Chikwawa District, Malawi, one of which used a more economical convenience sampling strategy. In the second paper, we analyse river-blindness prevalence data from a survey conducted in 20 African countries enrolled in the African Programme of …
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Factors governing household access to key socio-economic facilities and their influence on education performance and healthcare seeking behaviour in rural communities of Malawi
… that a significant number of villages in Chikwawa district were far from key services and the general state of the road network in most villages was poor. It was established that distance was the strongest predictor of school attendance and healthcare seeking behaviour. It was also …
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Epidemological investigations of rift valley fever in livestock in three ecological zones of Malawi.
… Mangochi (MH), Chiradzulu (CZ), Thyolo (TO), Chikwawa (CK) and Nsanje (NE). These districts were purposively selected from three ecological zones (EZ). Across-section survey using semi-structured questionnaire (n=400), was conducted to capture knowledge, attitude and management practices (KAP) …
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Epidemiological investigations of rift valley fever in livestock in three ecological zones of Malawi.
… Mangochi (MH), Chiradzulu (CZ), Thyolo (TO), Chikwawa (CK) and Nsanje (NE). These districts were purposively selected from three ecological zones (EZ). Across-section survey using semi-structured questionnaire (n=400), was conducted to capture knowledge, attitude and management practices (KAP) …
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Achieving gender equity through UNICEF intervention- the Sara Communication Initiative (SCI) : an examination of social capital and capabilities in two selected Malawian rural schools
… in the two selected rural school communities of Chikwawa district. Two theoretical frameworks were utilized, Nussbaum (2001) and Sen’s (1999) capability development model and the concept of social capital theory based on Putnam (2000) and Coleman (1998). A case study using mixed methods was used …
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Nutrient and Antinutrient Content of an Underexploited Malawian Water Tuber Nymphaea petersiana (Nyika)
Nymphaea petersiana Klotzsch (Nyika) is an important wild tuber eaten in some districts of Malawi. The tubers were processed by boiling/freeze-drying(BFD) and sun-drying(USD). The tuber's nutrient and antinutrient composition was determined to produce a preliminary nutrient data base for use in …