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  1. COVID-19 diagnosis within five days of symptoms onset among healthcare workers in Malawi; Non-randomized control trial of self-testing using Ag-RDTs
  2. Understanding the acceptability of COVID-19 antigen rapid diagnostic tests: A multi-country qualitative study
  3. Participant and researcher understandings of research responsibilities in malawi: a comparative analysis
  4. Self-management of chronic conditions including multimorbidity in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic and meta-synthesis review with focus on diabetes, hypertension, chronic kidney disease, and HIV
  5. Optimizing the implementation of case-area targeted interventions during cholera outbreaks with context-specific delivery mechanisms
  6. An exploratory study using respondent-driven sampling to map HIV risk across sex work locations in Blantyre, Malawi
  7. The burden of multimorbidity-associated acute hospital admissions in Malawi and Tanzania: a prospective multicentre cohort study
  8. Exploring the Interplay of Social and Physical Factors in Risk Dynamics and Transitions Across the Life-Course of Female Sex Workers in Blantyre, Malawi: A Longitudinal Narrative Study
  9. Developing an intervention to improve early infant HIV diagnosis service uptake among postpartum women in Malawi’s primary healthcare using a co-designing approach with stakeholders
  10. Factors influencing uptake of COVID-19 diagnostics in Sub-Saharan Africa: a rapid scoping review
  11. A multifaceted intervention to improve diagnosis and early management of hospitalised patients with suspected acute brain infections in Brazil, India, and Malawi: an international multicentre intervention study
  12. Digital transformations in sex work: A scoping review of social media use by female sex workers in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
  13. Are facility service delivery models meeting the sexual and reproductive health needs of adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa? A qualitative evidence synthesis
  14. Coercive public health policies need context-specific ethical justifications
  15. Combined interventions for the testing and treatment of HIV and schistosomiasis among fishermen in Malawi: a three-arm, cluster-randomised trial
  16. Self-management of multimorbidity in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-synthesis with focus on diabetes, hypertension, chronic kidney disease and HIV infection
  17. The effect on HIV transmission and cost-effectiveness of programmes for female sex workers in East, Central, and Southern Africa: a modelling study
  18. Improving care pathways for children with severe illness through implementation of the ASPIRE mHealth primary ETAT package in Malawi
  19. Use of qualitative research in World Health Organisation guidelines: a document analysis
  20. Child acute illness presentation and referrals at primary health clinics in Malawi: a secondary analysis of ASPIRE
  21. Experience of social harms among female sex workers following HIV self-test distribution in Malawi: results of a cohort study
  22. Process Evaluation of Services for HIV-Infected Post-Partum Women and HIV-Exposed Infants in Primary Health Care Blantyre Malawi
  23. Acceptance of and Adherence to a Four-Dose RTS,S/AS01 Schedule: Findings from a Longitudinal Qualitative Evaluation Study for the Malaria Vaccine Implementation Programme
  24. ‘Guidance should have been there 15 years ago’ research stakeholders’ perspectives on ancillary care in the global south: a case study of Malawi
  25. ‘Why would they spend all this money and give us these items for free?’: Exploring precarity and power in a cleaner cookstove intervention in rural Malawi
  26. A network of empirical ethics teams embedded in research programmes across multiple sites: opportunities and challenges in contributing to COVID-19 research and responses
  27. Resource availability and barriers to delivering quality care for newborns in hospitals in the southern region of Malawi: A multisite observational study
  28. Guardians and research staff experiences and views about the consent process in hospital-based paediatric research studies in urban Malawi: A qualitative study
  29. Factors impacting—stillbirth and neonatal death audit in Malawi: a qualitative study
  30. “Don’t rush into thinking of walking again”: Patient views of treatment and disability following an open tibia fracture in Malawi
  31. Primary motivations for and experiences with paediatric minimally invasive tissue sampling (MITS) participation in Malawi: a qualitative study
  32. A chronological discourse analysis of ancillary care provision in guidance documents for research conduct in the global south
  33. Prospective cohort study of referred Malawian children and their survival by hypoxaemia and hypoglycaemia status
  34. Power and Powerlessness in a Group Based Digital Story Telling Project-An Exploration of Community Perceptions of Health Concerns in Urban Malawi
  35. A critical examination of research narratives ‘rumours’ and passive community resistance in medical research
  36. Differentiated prevention and care to reduce the risk of HIV acquisition and transmission among female sex workers in Zimbabwe: study protocol for the ‘AMETHIST’ cluster randomised trial
  37. A network of empirical ethics teams embedded in research programmes across multiple sites: opportunities and challenges in contributing to COVID-19 research and responses
  38. “An increase in COVID-19 patients would be overwhelming”: A qualitative description of healthcare workers’ experiences during the first wave of COVID-19 (March 2020 to October 2020) at Malawi’s largest referral hospital.
  39. “You have a self-testing method that preserves privacy so how come you cannot give us treatment that does too?” Exploring the reasoning among young people about linkage to prevention, care and treatment after HIV self-testing in Southern Malawi
  40. Feasibility and acceptability of a peer-led HIV self-testing model among female sex workers in Malawi: a qualitative study
  41. Differentiated Prevention And Care To Reduce The Risk of HIV Acquisition And Transmission Among Female Sex Workers In Zimbabwe: Study Protocol For The ‘AMETHIST’ Cluster Randomised Trial
  42. Effect of door-to-door distribution of HIV self-testing kits on HIV testing and antiretroviral therapy initiation: a cluster randomised trial in Malawi
  43. Partner-delivered HIV self-test kits with and without financial incentives in antenatal care and index patients with HIV in Malawi: a three-arm, cluster-randomised controlled trial
  44. What do we know about ancillary care practices in East and Southern Africa? A systematic review and meta-synthesis
  45. Capacity Building for Health Care Workers and Support Staff in Pediatric Emergency Triage Assessment and Treatment (ETAT) at Primary Health Care Level in Resource Limited Settings: Experiences from Malawi
  46. Effect of community-led delivery of HIV self-testing on HIV testing and antiretroviral therapy initiation in Malawi: A cluster-randomised trial
  47. ‘Too old to test?’: A life course approach to HIV-related risk and self-testing among midlife-older adults in Malawi
  48. Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI): a mixed-methods study on implementation, knowledge and resource availability in Malawi
  49. Approaches, enablers, barriers and outcomes of implementing facility-based stillbirth and neonatal death audit in LMICs: a systematic review
  50. Clinical diagnosis in paediatric patients at urban primary health care facilities in southern Malawi: a longitudinal observational study
  51. Hypothetical acceptability of hospital-based post-mortem pediatric minimally invasive tissue sampling in Malawi: The role of complex social relationships
  52. Prognostic Indicators and Outcomes of Hospitalised COVID-19 Patients with Neurological Disease: A Systematic Review and Individual Patient Data Meta-Analysis
  53. ‘Cooking is for everyone?’: Exploring the complexity of gendered dynamics in a cookstove intervention study in rural Malawi
  54. Paediatric Emergency Triage, Assessment and Treatment (ETAT) – preparedness for implementation at primary care facilities in Malawi
  55. ‘Too old to test?’: A life course approach to HIV-related risk and self-testing among midlife-older adults in Malawi
  56. Sex, power, marginalisation and HIV amongst young fishermen in Malawi: Exploring intersecting inequalities
  57. Structural coercion in the context of community engagement in global health research conducted in a low resource setting in Africa
  58. Clinical diagnosis in paediatric patients at urban primary health care facilities in southern Malawi: a longitudinal observational study
  59. ‘Too old to test?’: A life course approach to HIV-related risk and self-testing among midlife-older adults in Malawi
  60. “I wanted evidence that my status had changed, so that is why I tested”: experiences with HIV self-testing among female sex workers in Malawi
  61. “Are we getting the biometric bioethics right?” – the use of biometrics within the healthcare system in Malawi
  62. Community-led delivery of HIV self-testing to improve HIV testing, ART initiation and broader social outcomes in rural Malawi: study protocol for a cluster-randomised trial
  63. HIV self-testing services for female sex workers, Malawi and Zimbabwe
  64. A Randomized Trial of Prophylactic Antibiotics for Miscarriage Surgery
  65. Post-test adverse psychological effects and coping mechanisms amongst HIV self-tested individuals living in couples in urban Blantyre, Malawi
  66. How should assent to research be sought in low income settings? Perspectives from parents and children in Southern Malawi
  67. Dust or disease? Perceptions of influenza in rural Southern Malawi
  68. A Randomized Trial of Prophylactic Antibiotics for Miscarriage Surgery
  69. Exploring social harms during distribution of HIV self‐testing kits using mixed‐methods approaches in Malawi
  70. Addressing Intimate Partner Violence Using Gender-Transformative Approaches at a Community Level in Rural Tanzania: The UZIKWASA program
  71. Dust or disease? Perceptions of influenza in rural Southern Malawi
  72. The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of community-based lay distribution of HIV self-tests in increasing uptake of HIV testing among adults in rural Malawi and rural and peri-urban Zambia: protocol for STAR (self-testing for Africa) cluster randomi...
  73. Complexities and dilemmas in community consultation on the design of a research project logo in Malawi
  74. A qualitative evaluation of hospital versus community-based management of patients on injectable treatments for tuberculosis
  75. Six dimensions of research trial acceptability: how much, what, when, in what circumstances, to whom and why?
  76. Household concepts of wellbeing and the contribution of palliative care in the context of advanced cancer: A Photovoice study from Blantyre, Malawi
  77. Measuring sexual behaviour in Malawi: a triangulation of three data collection instruments
  78. Prophylactic antibiotics to reduce pelvic infection in women having miscarriage surgery – The AIMS (Antibiotics in Miscarriage Surgery) trial: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
  79. Pressured HIV testing “in the name of love”: a mixed methods analysis of pressured HIV testing among men who have sex with men in China
  80. Discordance, Disclosure and Normative Gender Roles: Barriers to Couple Testing Within a Community-Level HIV Self-Testing Intervention in Urban Blantyre, Malawi
  81. Coercion and HIV Self-Testing in Men Who Have Sex With Men: Implementation Data From a Cross-Sectional Survey in China
  82. “Not just dogs, but rabid dogs”: tensions and conflicts amongst research volunteers in Malawi
  83. TB and HIV stigma compounded by threatened masculinity: implications for TB health-care seeking in Malawi
  84. Understanding the role of community advisory groups in Malawi
  85. Investigating interventions to increase uptake of HIV testing and linkage into care or prevention for male partners of pregnant women in antenatal clinics in Blantyre, Malawi: study protocol for a cluster randomised trial
  86. Uptake contexts and perceived impacts of HIV testing and counselling among adults in East and Southern Africa: A meta-ethnographic review
  87. Acceptability of woman-delivered HIV self-testing to the male partner, and additional interventions: a qualitative study of antenatal care participants in Malawi
  88. Perceptions of Research Bronchoscopy in Malawian Adults with Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Cross-Sectional Study
  89. Public engagement in Malawi through a health-talk radio programme ‘Umoyo nkukambirana’: A mixed-methods evaluation
  90. The Cooking and Pneumonia Study (CAPS) in Malawi: A Nested Pilot of Photovoice Participatory Research Methodology
  91. Treatment-Seeking for Tuberculosis-Suggestive Symptoms: A Reflection on the Role of Human Agency in the Context of Universal Health Coverage in Malawi
  92. Uptake, Accuracy, Safety, and Linkage into Care over Two Years of Promoting Annual Self-Testing for HIV in Blantyre, Malawi: A Community-Based Prospective Study
  93. ‘Whose failure counts?’ A critical reflection on definitions of failure for community health volunteers providing HIV self-testing in a community-based HIV/TB intervention study in urban Malawi
  94. Exploring the complexity of microfinance and HIV in fishing communities on the shores of Lake Malawi
  95. Engaging with risk in non-Western settings: an editorial
  96. Towards a gender perspective in qualitative research on voluntary medical male circumcision in east and southern Africa
  97. The impact of the 2011 UK post-exposure prophylaxis for HIV following sexual exposure guidelines: a regional retrospective audit
  98. Control, struggle, and emergent masculinities: a qualitative study of men’s care-seeking determinants for chronic cough and tuberculosis symptoms in Blantyre, Malawi
  99. Through the Rabbit Hole: Considering the Situational Experience of Risk among Men Who Have Sex with Men in the Context of HIV Prevention
  100. Effect of Optional Home Initiation of HIV Care Following HIV Self-testing on Antiretroviral Therapy Initiation Among Adults in Malawi
  101. Factors Shaping Initial Decision-Making to Self-test Amongst Cohabiting Couples in Urban Blantyre, Malawi
  102. A Novel Community Health Worker Tool Outperforms WHO Clinical Staging for Assessment of Antiretroviral Therapy Eligibility in a Resource-Limited Setting
  103. Improving recognition of severe illness and patient pathways in primary health services using mHealth technology in urban Blantyre, Malawi
  104. Considerations for a Human Rights Impact Assessment of a Population Wide Treatment for HIV Prevention Intervention
  105. Community perceptions of the social determinants of child health in Western Cape, South Africa: neglect as a major indicator of child health and wellness
  106. Recognising and Treatment Seeking for Acute Bacterial Meningitis in Adults and Children in Resource-Poor Settings: A Qualitative Study
  107. Barriers and facilitators to linkage to ART in primary care: a qualitative study of patients and providers in Blantyre, Malawi
  108. Transactional sex and HIV: understanding the gendered structural drivers of HIV in fishing communities in Southern Malawi
  109. Managing risk through treatment-seeking in rural north-western Tanzania: Categorising health problems as malaria andnzoka
  110. Suboptimal patterns of provider initiated HIV testing and counselling, antiretroviral therapy eligibility assessment and referral in primary health clinic attendees in Blantyre, Malawi*
  111. Stigmatising Attitudes among People Offered Home-Based HIV Testing and Counselling in Blantyre, Malawi: Construction and Analysis of a Stigma Scale
  112. The Uptake and Accuracy of Oral Kits for HIV Self-Testing in High HIV Prevalence Setting: A Cross-Sectional Feasibility Study in Blantyre, Malawi
  113. Comparison of Sexual Behavior Data Collected Using a Coital Diary and a Clinic-Based Interview During a Microbicide Pilot Study in Mwanza, Tanzania
  114. Intravaginal and Menstrual Practices among Women Working in Food and Recreational Facilities in Mwanza, Tanzania: Implications for Microbicide Trials
  115. Sexual risk behaviour for women working in recreational venues in Mwanza, Tanzania: considerations for the acceptability and use of vaginal microbicide gels
  116. A model for community representation and participation in HIV prevention trials among women who engage in transactional sex in Africa
  117. Validity of coital diaries in a feasibility study for the Microbicides Development Programme trial among women at high risk of HIV/AIDS in Mwanza, Tanzania
  118. The benefits of participatory methodologies to develop effective community dialogue in the context of a microbicide trial feasibility study in Mwanza, Tanzania
  119. Acceptability of azithromycin for the control of trachoma in Northern Tanzania
  120. A typology of groups at risk of HIV/STI in a gold mining town in north-western Tanzania