A5011602893- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Iron Metabolism and Disorders
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
Kamuzu University of Health Sciences
2023
Kamuzu Central Hospital
2023
Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital
2017-2019
University of Malawi
2018
Abstract Evidence demonstrates that encouraging stimulation, early communication, and nutrition improves child development. Detailed feasibility studies in real‐world situations Africa are limited. We piloted Care for Child Development through six health surveillance assistants (HSAs) group individual sessions with 60 caregivers children <2 years assessed recruitment, frequency, timings, quality of intervention. collected baseline/endline anthropometric, development (MDAT), maternal...
Introduction Universal access to quality early childhood development and care is a fundamental part of Sustainable Development Goal 4.2.1. Research from diverse settings, including that in low middle income countries, now demonstrates the positive impact interventions promote play, stimulation, communication responsiveness can have, not just on child development, but long term gains education economic growth. International agencies have recently produced Nurturing Care Framework for Early...
Early childhood development provides an important foundation for the of human capital. Although there is a clear relation between stunting and child outcomes, less information available about developmental behavioural outcomes children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM). Particularly research gap exists in Sub-Saharan Africa where high prevalence SAM rate co-occurring HIV (human immune deficiency virus) infection. Our first objective was to assess severity disorders on cohort admitted...
Abstract Intestinal pathology in children with complicated severe acute malnutrition (SAM) persists despite standard management. Given the similarity intestinal non-IgE mediated gastrointestinal food allergy and Crohn’s disease, we tested whether therapeutic feeds effective treating these conditions may benefit SAM. After initial clinical stabilisation, 95 aged 6–23 months admitted at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi between January 1 st December 31 , 2016 were allocated...
Children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) who require nutritional rehabilitation unit (NRU) treatment often have poor developmental and outcomes following discharge. The Kusamala Program is a 4-d hospital-based counseling program for caregivers of children SAM that integrates nutrition, water, sanitation, hygiene psychosocial stimulation, aimed at improving these outcomes.
Malawi has a population of around 20 million people and is one the world’s most economically deprived nations. Severe mental illness (largely comprising psychoses severe mood disorders) managed by very small number staff in four tertiary facilities, aided clinical officers nurses general hospitals clinics. Given these constraints, psychosis largely undetected untreated, with median duration untreated (DUP) six years. Our aim to work lived experience (PWLE), caregivers, local communities...