Factors contributing to shortage of essential drugs in health centres of the southern region; Malawi; 1989

Results of the study have shown that there is actually an overconsumption of tablets of chloroquine; mebendazole; sulphadimidine and ferrous sulphate but under supply of penicillin to health centres which clearly reject assumptions and claims that essential drugs are supplied in small quantities to health centres. If there are shortages in health centres in the southern region; the shortages could be due to irrational use of drugs

Factors contributing to high neonatal mortality rate in Lilongwe District; 1988

Prematurity is among the major causes of neo-natal deaths with a risk 10-13 times greater than full term babies. Tetanus was another major cause and accounting for 28 percent of neo-natal deaths