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Malawi Medical Journal

The Journal of the College of Medicine
and  Medical Association of Malawi

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Volume 15 No. 1 2003
Table of Contents

EDITORIAL

The changing faces of Malawi’s health care landscape         

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Muula A

 

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Behavioural characteristics, prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis and antibiotic susceptibility of Neisseria gonorrhoea in men with urethral discharge in Thyolo, Malawi   

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Zachariah R, Harries AD, Nkhoma W, Arendt V, Nchingula D, Chantulo A, Chimtulo F, Kirpach P

Abstract

Ocular disease in patients with TB and HIV presenting with fever in Malawi       

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Beare NAV, Kublin JG, Lewis DK, Schijffelen MJ, Peters RPH, Joaki G, Kumwenda K, Zijlstra EE

Abstract

High frequency of tuberculosis in households of patients with pulmonary Tuberculosis in Mzimba, Malawi  

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Mwale A, Harries AD, Hargreaves NJ, Salaniponi FM

Abstract

Perceptions about the aetiology, treatment and prevention of convulsions in under-five children in Rumphi 

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Munthali AC

Abstract

 

SHORT REPORT

Knowledge of tuberculosis in secondary school students: a study in Mchinji district   

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Chilunda MMA, Harries AD, Salaniponi FML

 

CASE REPORT

Ankylosing spondylitis in a Malawian                                                                     

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Mkandawire N

 

VIEW POINT

Vaccines or latrines? Debating spending on health                                                

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Msolomba B, Pathirana L, Purcell B, Bowie C

 

Statistics Corner                                                                                                       

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White S

 

 
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