The Global Economic Effects of Pandemic Outbreak, COVID-19 in Malawi

Banda, Lloyd George; Kamanga, Blessings

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“…The research paper will employ various data collection methods from different financial institutions in the Western Balkan countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, North Macedonia, Serbia, Kosovo, and Montenegro). Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the research will rely more on digital questionnaires and oral interviews 1 . The questionnaire and the oral interviews are in the English language.…”

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The Impact of COVID 19 In Digital Currencies Focused in Western Balkan Societies

Shahini¹,

Skuraj²,

Sallaku³

et al. 2021

Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology

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Virtual communities' emergence and innovative technologies bring up new types of accounting and transaction methods. These methods go beyond the existing economics knowledge and current legal solutions. Virtual societies develop and share their payment medium for goods and services exchange. The use of cryptocurrency has been enhanced during the COVID -19 era due to the health guidelines to minimize the virus's spread. Cryptocurrencies bridge the loopholes left by the traditional currency in sorting crises like the Corona Virus pandemic. However, cryptocurrency brings up legal controversies that users are exposed to economic and legal risks.

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The Impact of COVID 19 In Digital Currencies Focused in Western Balkan Societies

Shahini¹,

Skuraj²,

Sallaku³

et al. 2021

Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology

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“…The first official case of COVID-19 in Malawi was recorded on April 2, 2020. In the following weeks, sporadic transmission clusters emerged in large cities and additional importations of COVID-19 cases occurred among migrants returning primarily from South Africa, the largest documented outbreak across Africa countries at the time [ 17 , 18 ]. The Malawian Government declared COVID-19 as a national disaster as early as March 2020, and banned the gathering of more than 100 people [ 19 ].…”

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Is experience of the HIV/AIDS epidemic associated with responses to COVID-19? Evidence from the Rural Malawi

Anglewicz,

Lamba,

Kohler

et al. 2023

PLoS ONE

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Introduction Starting in late 2019, the coronavirus “SARS-CoV-2”, which causes the disease Covid-19, spread rapidly and extensively. Although many have speculated that prior experience with infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS, Ebola, or SARS would better prepare populations in sub-Saharan Africa for COVID-19, this has not been formally tested, primarily due to data limitations. Methods We use longitudinal panel data from the Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health (MLSFH, waves 2006, 2008, and 2020) to examine the association between exposure to the HIV/AIDS epidemic and perceptions of, and behavioral response to, the COVID-19 pandemic. We measured exposure to HIV infection through perceived prevalence of HIV/AIDS in the community, worry about HIV infection, perceived likelihood of HIV infection, and actual HIV status; and the experience of HIV/AIDS-related mortality through self-reports of knowing members of the community and extended family who died from AIDS (measured in 2006 or 2008). Our outcome measures were perceptions of COVID-19 presence in the community, perceptions of individual vulnerability to COVID-19, and prevention strategies to avoid COVID-19 collected through phone-interviews in 2020. Results Based on our data analysis using multivariable regression models, we found that the experience of HIV-related mortality was positively associated with perceptions of COVID-19 prevalence in the community and preventive behaviors for COVID-19. However, perceived vulnerability to HIV-AIDS infection and actual HIV positive status 10-years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic are generally not associated with COVID-19 perceptions and behaviors. Conclusions Our results suggest that COVID-19-related behaviors are impacted more by experience of AIDS mortality instead of HIV/AIDS risk perceptions, and that individuals may be correctly viewing HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 transmission as distinct disease processes.

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The Global Economic Effects of Pandemic Outbreak, COVID-19 in Malawi

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The Impact of COVID 19 In Digital Currencies Focused in Western Balkan Societies

The Impact of COVID 19 In Digital Currencies Focused in Western Balkan Societies

Is experience of the HIV/AIDS epidemic associated with responses to COVID-19? Evidence from the Rural Malawi

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