Malawi

• Essential medical laboratory services: their role in delivering equitable health care in Malawi
  2007, RJ Dacombe, SB Squire, ARC Ramsay, HT Banda, I Bates, WHO Liverpool Associates in Tropical Health UK and REACH Trust, Lilongwe, Malawi
  Examines the establishment of Essential Medical Laboratory Services and their crucial role for delivering equitable health care to the poor population of Malawi as part of the Essential Health Package; the potential for and current limitations of extending these services closer to the community.
  (7 pages, pdf 33kb)
• Using Human Resource for Health Data: Health policy and program planning examples from four African countries
  2008, USAID
  Malawi, Côte D’Ivoire, Lesotho, Zambia; HR information systems; action taken based on HR data; HR development; constraints in using data; HR management
  (30 pages, pdf 310KB)
• Monitoring Equity and Health Systems in the Provision of Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART): Malawi Country Report, Equinet Discussion Paper 24
  Makwiza Ireen, Nyirenda Lot, Bongololo Grace, Loewenson Rene and Theobald Sally, 2005, EQUINET, Training and Research Support Centre
  Monitoring ART scale up; Fair processes for policy development and monitoring implementation; Equitable access to ART with realistic targets; Health system issues in ART programmes; Fair and sustainable financing and accountable financial management; ART programme integration into priority health services; Production and retention of human resources for priority health services; Private sector provision of ART that complements and enhances public health services
  (46 pages, pdf 339KB)
• The Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at Kamuzu Central Hospital and Bottom Hospital, Lilongwe, Malawi
  pdf, 487kb
  Tarek Meguid and Elled Mwenyeekonde, 2005
  Situation analysis; technical and management problems; suggested management actions
  (52 pages)