ReviewBMJ global health2021
The health policy response to COVID-19 in Malawi.
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- An account of health systems resilience to emergencies in Africa: a scoping review.Globalization and health · 2026Article
- A Nation of Disasters: Lessons on Systemic Risks and Cascading Impacts From Malawi's COVID-19 Experience.Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis · 2026Article
- Lessons learned from approaches in COVID-19 risk Communication and community engagement in Malawi: an exploratory study.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2025Article
- Distribution ofPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The thought that i could continue with school got lost: a qualitative exploration of the impact of COVID-19 on the education and sexual and reproductive health of Malawi youth.Reproductive health · 2025Article
- Surveillance of Excess Mortality Based on Community Perceptions of Funeral Frequency in Northern Malawi during the COVID-19 Pandemic.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2025Article
- Understanding the acceptability of COVID-19 antigen rapid diagnostic tests: A multi-country qualitative study.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Mobile health-delivered narrative intervention to increase cervical cancer screening among Malawian women living with HIV: A pilot randomized controlled trial.Asia-Pacific journal of oncology nursing · 2024Article
- Prevalence of Endemic Respiratory Viruses During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Urban and Rural Malawi.Open forum infectious diseases · 2024Article
- "Life mapping" exploring the lived experience of COVID-19 on access to HIV treatment and care in Malawi.Gates open research · 2024Article
- "Kuteteza": A community-engaged COVID-19 Prevention and Protection Initiative in Southern Malawi.Wellcome open research · 2024Article
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- Influence of the SARS-COV2 pandemic on access to healthcare services among people living with HIV and its subsequent effects on antiretroviral therapy uptake in Malawi.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- Effects of COVID-19 on Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes and Access to Antenatal and Postnatal Care, Malawi.Emerging infectious diseases · 2023Article
- Assessing SARS-CoV-2 vaccine hesitancy among the people living with and without HIV from May to September 2022 in Blantyre, Malawi.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2023Article
- Rates of Seroprotection against Vaccine-Preventable Infectious Diseases in HIV-Exposed and -Unexposed Malawian Infants.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Changes in moderately low birthweight infant feeding, care, and health outcomes before compared to during the COVID-19 pandemic in Malawi.Journal of global health · 2023Observational
- The impact of COVID-19 on sexual behavior, HIV prevention interest, general healthcare access, and other HIV risk factors among trial participants in Malawi, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.Frontiers in reproductive health · 2023Article
- Household costs and care seeking patterns associated with COVID-19 in Blantyre, Malawi.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- Is experience of the HIV/AIDS epidemic associated with responses to COVID-19? Evidence from the Rural Malawi.PloS one · 2023Article
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Abstract
Malawi declared a state of national disaster due to the COVID-19 pandemic on 20th March 2020 and registered its first confirmed coronavirus case on the 2 April 2020. The aim of this paper was to document policy decisions made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic from January to August 2020. We reviewed policy documents from the Public Health Institute of Malawi, the Malawi Gazette, the Malawi Ministry of Health and Population and the University of Oxford Coronavirus Government Response Tracker. We found that the Malawi response to the COVID-19 pandemic was multisectoral and implemented through 15 focused working groups termed clusters. Each cluster was charged with providing policy direction in their own area of focus. All clusters then fed into one central committee for major decisions and reporting to head of state. Key policies identified during the review include international travel ban, school closures at all levels, cancellation of public events, decongesting workplaces and public transport, and mandatory face coverings and a testing policy covering symptomatic people. Supportive interventions included risk communication and community engagement in multiple languages and over a variety of mediums, efforts to improve access to water, sanitation, nutrition and unconditional social-cash transfers for poor urban and rural households.
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