“...Inclusion criteria were sexually active young men aged 15 to 24 patronising Bwaila and Kawale health centres. ...”
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“...On a logistic regression analysis, several factors were found to be associated with HDP, these included age (OR 0.15; 95% CI, 0.09-0.25, P≤0.001), education (OR 0.43; 95% CI, 0.32-0.58; P≤0.01), occupation (OR 0.65; 95% CI, 0.51-0.84; P≤0.001), residency (OR 14.24; 95% CI, 7.95-25.53; P≤0.001), HIV status (OR 16.24; 95% CI, 3.78-69.69; P≤0.001), parity (OR 0.19; 95% CI, 0.99-0.39; P≤0.001), mode of delivery (OR 3.87; 955 CI, 2.59-5.78; P≤0.001) and diabetes mellitus (OR 17.37; 95% CI, 7.22-41.84; P≤0.001). ...”
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“...Immunization services are provided by Health surveillance Assistant's who at first were recruited as chicken pox vaccinators around 1960s. They are responsible for about 60% of all vaccinations provided to children under five both in rural and urban areas. ...”
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“...Data was analysed manually using Streubert, 1991 approach. Common themes emerged and similar statements were grouped together to form a pattern of similar responses from the respondents. ...”
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“...Since the first case of AIDS was diagnosed in Malawi, in 1985, more than half a million Malawians have died of AIDS, and daily many more are infected. ...”
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“...Findings in general showed that relationship between religion and condom use was significant (P—. 0485) while the relationship between casual sex and condom use was insignificant (P=. 0695). Recommendations proposed include health authorities. ...”
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“...Delay in accessing professional delivery care from the hospital predispose pregnant women to a number of health hazards associated with labor complications (Klein S, 1999). These complications can either be fatal, or can lead to some disabilities to the mother or the new born child or both if not well managed. ...”
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“...The study used a purposive sample of 10 participants and face-to-face interviews were conducted to collect data, Data was analysed using the procedural method of data analysis authorized by Streubert and Carpenter (1991). The results of the study revealed that infertility is a crisis to the infertile women that robes her of personal fulfillment and reduces her status in the society and exposes her to abuse and infertility also places her at high risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections including HIV/Aids. ...”
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“...Data was collected from a sample of 15 women of ages ranging from 1545 years, using a semi-structured questionnaire. ...”
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“...The data obtained was analyzed using the statistical package for social science (SPSS Version 16.0). Data has been summarized using frequency tables, and bar charts and tables have been used to present the results. ...”
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“...To mitigate the impact of such challenges on the welfare of Malawians, Government has updated the country’s 1994 National Population Policy to ensure that it is kept abreast with the current population and development issues. ...”
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“...The goal of the policy is to facilitate improvement of the nutritional status of all Malawians, with special emphasis on vulnerable groups such as pregnant and lactating mothers, children below the age of 15 years, orphans, the elderly and people living with HIV and AIDS”. ...”
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“...Care givers that had attained complete primary education were 2 times more likely to meet child minimum dietary diversity as compared to caregivers with no education [OR 2.5 (95% CI:0.27,24.8)]. The odds of practicing appropriate care seeking behaviour increased by 0.07 for caregivers aged 18 to 24 years [ OR 1.07 (95% CI: 0.40,2.83) Interventions aimed at improving the socio-economic status of rural households in Malawi can greatly improve children dietary diversity....”
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“...The first national efforts to improve QoC and establish quality assurance systems originate from the nineties, leading to the development of a National Quality Assurance plan in 1998 and a National Quality Assurance Policy in 2005. ...”
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“...Adolescent pregnancy in Malawi is high with 26% of all births to girls aged between 15 to 19 (Malawi national Statistical Office and ICF Macro, 2011). ...”
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