The Pattern of Variation between Diarrhea and Malaria Coexistence with Corresponding Risk Factors in, Chikhwawa, Malawi: A Bivariate Multilevel Analysis.

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Published in Int J Environ Res Public Health on July 21, 2015

Authors

Salule Masangwi1,2, Neil Ferguson3, Anthony Grimason4,5, Tracy Morse6,7,4,5, Lawrence Kazembe8

Author Affiliations

1: Centre for Water, Sanitation, Health and Appropriate Technology Development (WASHTED), University of Malawi, The Polytechnic, P/B 303, Blantyre, Malawi. salule.masangwi@strath.ac.uk.
2: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Malawi, The Polytechnic, P/B 303, Blantyre, Malawi. salule.masangwi@strath.ac.uk.
3: Department of Civil Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0NG, UK. n.s.ferguson@strath.ac.uk.
4: Scotland Chikhwawa Health Initiative (SCHI), P.O. Box 30376, Blantyre 3, Malawi. a.m.grimason@strath.ac.uk.
5: Africa Academy for Environmental Health, P.O. Box 15574, Sinoville 0129, South Africa. a.m.grimason@strath.ac.uk.
6: Centre for Water, Sanitation, Health and Appropriate Technology Development (WASHTED), University of Malawi, The Polytechnic, P/B 303, Blantyre, Malawi. a.m.grimason@strath.ac.uk.
7: Department of Civil Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0NG, UK. a.m.grimason@strath.ac.uk.
8: Department of Statistics and Population Studies, 340 Mandume Ndemufayo Avenue, Pionerspark, P/Bag 13301, Windhoek, Namibia. lkazembe@yahoo.com.

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