Malawi. All recent sightings of Grey Crowned Cranes have been outside of protected areas, specifically along the Rukuru River. This area is under considerable threat from plans to build a dam/xxxx for irrigation expansion under the Rural Irrigation Development Project. This area needs an urgent survey to determine the population of Grey Crowned Cranes and to determine whether they breed in the area.
Malawi. The project is building the capacity of the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Welfare, districts, and USAID partners to implement national standards to improve services for vulnerable children and work- ing with the PHFS initiative to improve the quality of nutrition services for people with HIV.
Malawi. The project is building the capacity of the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Welfare, districts, and USAID partners to implement national standards to improve services for vulnerable children and work- ing with the PHFS initiative to improve the quality of nutrition services for people with HIV. Mali: The project is working with the MOH to apply improvement meth- ods at the health facility and community levels to improve the quality of essential obstetric and newborn care (EONC) in one region. We are also supporting the MOH to improve anemia prevention and control in one demonstration district and supporting implementation of the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist (SCC) in a sample of maternities, including post- partum family planning. Mozambique: The project is providing technical assistance to the Government of Mozambique and implementing partners to improve the quality of services offered to vulnerable children and families affected by HIV and to implement approved standards. USAID ASSIST is also pilot- ing draft standards for home-based care and supporting PHFS activities at the community level. Niger: USAID ASSIST is supporting the Ministry of Public Health to test models to improve the integration of postpartum family planning (FP) services into one urban and one rural district. A primary purpose of the project is to demonstrate scalable, cost-effective approaches to achieve effective coverage of postpartum FP services.
Malawi. Using data from DHS 2010, Palamuleni and Adebowale demonstrated a high occurrence of unintended pregnancies in Malawi using a representative sample of 2,144 currently pregnant women (Palamuleni & Adebowale, 2014). Over half (53.3%) of women in the study indicated that their index pregnancy was unintended (25 % mistimed, 28% unwanted). Significant factors in bivariate analysis included the age of the woman, area of residence, parity, region of residence, number of children wished by the woman, and financial status of the woman. However, in the multiple regression analysis, only the age of the respondent, financial status, region of residence, fertility preferences, and number of children ever born remained significant. Age was significantly associated with both ill-timed and unwanted pregnancies. Women less than 20 years of age were over six times more likely to say that their index pregnancy was ill timed compared to those aged 30 years or over (p-value <0.05). Likewise, younger women were three times more likely to say their pregnancy was unwanted (OR 2.57, p value <0.001). Furthermore, as the women’s age increased, the likelihood of an unwanted or ill-timed pregnancy was likewise reduced. Women with more than four children were five times more likely to indicate that their index pregnancy was ill-timed compared to those who had never had child (p value <0.001). The association was similar for unwanted pregnancies. Mistimed pregnancies were higher in the North seconded by the South. Women from the Southern Region were 0.66 times less likely to report their pregnancy as unwanted compared to the Central Region, while the Southern women were almost twice as likely to report an unwanted pregnancy compared to those from the North (both significant, p value <0.05). Rural women were more likely than urban women to report unwanted pregnancy (28.6 % vs. 22.4%, p value < 0.05). As anticipated, women who wished to have more children were less likely to say that their index pregnancy was unintended compared to those who wished to stop childbearing (OR 0.61 p value < 0.05). The researchers also reported that the likelihood of indicating pregnancy as unwanted was 68% higher among women of lower socio-economic status compared to women of higher financial status (OR 1.68 p value< 0.05). This was a nationally representative study, with a large sample size and participants from both urban and rural areas. In addition, the researchers used a three level outcome, including u...
Malawi. University of Malawi Centre for Education Research and Training inter-faculty Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies 2006.06.12 Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources inter-university 2019.02.05 Namibia
