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- First prize awarded to CIHD researcher
- MaiMwana Project Film
- Congenital syphilis screening 'cuts baby deaths'
- New UCL Grand Challenges for Global Health Report
- New Good Practice Guide: Community Mobilisation through Women’s Groups to Improve the Health of Mothers and Babies
- Anthony Costello's talk at the RCPCH's International Child Health Group
- Anthony Costello awarded the RCPCH's James Spence Medal
- Clinical Trials Award
- Developing sexual health programmes
- Population Footprints
- Ekjut's work profiled in The Hindu newspaper
- UCL Beacon Bursary for Public Engagement
- Ekjut, India, represented at Women Deliver 2010 conference
- Anthony Costello's letter in the Guardian
- Lancet Commentary in the New York Times
- Work in Malawi
- Nepal's women's groups help cut infant deaths
- New Lancet papers on Women's support groups improving neonatal survival rates
- Dissemination workshop in Delhi
- New grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- CIHD success at the RSTMH
- Climate change: The biggest global-health threat of the 21st century
- Anthony Costello becomes a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
- The UCL Lancet Lecture 2010
- Perinatal Care Project Film
- Professor Therese Hesketh's latest research finding
- Professor David Morley
- War in Gaza - Children and Civilians Pay the Highest Price
- DFID Research Consortium Meets in Ghana
- Institute for Global Health Symposia: 'Managing the health effects of climate change'
- UCL Lancet Lecture 2008 - 24th November
- New Integrated Web Sites for Postgraduate and Undergraduate Courses
- Market Speculation and Malnutrition?
- Wellcome Trust Strategic Award
- Launch of Global e-Learning Course in Medical Peace Work
- Institute for Global Health Web Site Goes Live
- International Nutrition Seminar Series
- UN Report on Micronutrient Deficiencies
- Award Honours Head of MIRA
- Institute for Global Health
- UCL Symposium
- The UCL Lancet Lecture, 2007
- New international magazine for nutrition practitioners
- Sally McGregor receives a Caribbean Child Research Award
- Child Health Symposium event
- CIHD hosts child development forum
- International meeting
- Participatory film by Women's Group in rural Nepal
- World Bank Blog about our work with Women's Groups
- Head to Head: Should UK membership exams be held overseas? Yes or No?
- UK Community Based Rehabilitation Guidelines
- China's high sex ratio: Read Prof Hesketh's comments in The Guardian
- Violence against health workers in conflict zones: CNN interview with CIHD Alumna, Sohur Mire
- Public health experts warn Lords to reject health reforms
- From hookworms to bookworms: Read Prof Costello and Dr Prost's article
- NHS reforms: A medical student's view
- The Guardian: UK aid 2010-15- Get the data
- Call for urgent action on climate change
- 24 November: Launch event of Global Health Watch 3
- The DIFFER Project launch
- Read the event blog for the CMAM Conference 2011
- Read the event blog for Population and Climate Change in a World of 7 Billion
- CIHD awarded £394k for research on inequalities
- Transformative Education for Global Health - Preparing Health Professionals for an Interdependent World
- Child Maltreatment
- Professor Zef Ebrahim
- MOYO Weight for Height Chart
- Lift the threat of nuclear weapons
- E-learning module on the Economic Evaluation of Health Programmes
- 2010
- The Global Doctor Launched
Work in Malawi
14 April 2010
On Thursday 18th and Friday 19th March, local and international MaiKhanda
staff and partners attended the biannual MaiKhanda Partners' meeting in
Lilongwe Malawi. Tim Colbourn, Bejoy Nambiar and Anthony Costello of CIHD
took part in their roles as evaluators of the MaiKhanda programme. Progress
reports for both the community and facilities intervention (see description
of MaiKhanda below) were shared as were the latest findings from the evaluation
team. A number of interesting discussions followed. The focus of these were
on how successful the interventions have been to date and whether the
interventions have matured enough to be spread to other areas. Following
discussions with the partners it was agreed that further in-depth analysis
is required in order to answer the first question on success, and that the
answer to this question is a prerequisite for answering the second question
regarding spread. CIHD is leading detailed studies on the impact of the
interventions, the processes behind the interventions' successes or failures
(to enable adaptation and replication in other contexts), and the
cost-effectiveness of the interventions. All of these on-going studies are
crucial in order to determine the overall success or failure of MaiKhanda.
MaiKhanda aims to reduce maternal and newborn mortality and morbidity in
three districts of Malawi (Lilongwe, Kasungu and Salima) over a six year
period. Reductions in mortality will be achieved through two main
interventions: quality improvement in health facilities offering
comprehensive and basic obstetric care (supply side intervention), and a
community mobilisation programme working through women's groups to address
key issues in maternal and neonatal care (demand side intervention).
CIHD has been contracted to evaluate MaiKhanda. This includes the following:
. The impact of the proposed interventions on maternal and newborn
mortality. This is via a cluster randomized controlled trial design, through
a population based surveillance system at the community level.
. Understanding the processes adopted in achieving QI (Quality
Improvement) at the health facilities and community mobilization at the
village level; and understanding the context within which, and the
mechanisms by which, the interventions work.
. The cost-effectiveness of the interventions and its implications for
scaling up.
