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WASHTED at the 2025 Kamuzu University of Health Sciences Research Dissemination Conference (KUHeS RDC)  : A Three-Day Journey of Innovation and Impact.

From 1st to 3rd October 2025, the Kamuzu University of Health Sciences Research Dissemination Conference (KUHeS RDC) was held at Amaryllis Hotel in Blantyre, once again proving to be a vibrant platform for knowledge sharing, collaboration, and scientific dialogue. Held under the theme “Multidisciplinary Health Research and Innovation: Key to Economic Development,” the conference brought […]

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Transforming Guardian Waiting Shelters: A Healthier Malawi Starts Here

We’re excited to announce that our team has officially kicked off data collection for the National Assessment of Guardian Waiting Shelters (GWS) across Malawi! Every day, guardians stand by the bedsides of their loved ones, cooking, cleaning, offering comfort, and filling critical gaps in patient support. They are the heartbeat of our healthcare system. Yet

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Understanding what households value in handwashing soap is the spark that can transform handwashing behaviour……

Using an innovative data collection approach, WASHTED and partners are uncovering household soap preferences in Chiradzulu and Blantyre districts. While soap is essential for preventing diseases, many Malawian households still face barriers related to availability, preference, and prioritisation, and not all soaps are equally motivating to use for handwashing. In Phase 2 of this study,

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Changing Habits, Changing Lives: A School’s Journey to Better Sanitation

From 1st october 2025, in one of Blantyre’s primary schools, a quiet transformation is taking place. What started as a few concerned conversations about the state of the toilets has now grown into a movement of creativity, and change led by learners themselves. The NIHR Global Health Research Group on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing, in

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Climate change is not only a health, environmental, or socioeconomic crisis, it is also a Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) crisis…….

Yet another inspiring day for WASHTED as we join global experts in addressing critical challenges affecting the WASH sector worldwide. As the UNC 2025 Water and Health Conference continues, the WASHTED Centre manager, Dr. Chidziwisano participated in a side event facilitated by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and the Reckitt Global

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WASHTED Conducts Strategic Plan Development Workshop for 2026–2030

Starting from the 29th of September to the 3rd of October, the Centre for Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Appropriate Technology Development (WASHTED) organised a week-long Strategic Plan Development Workshop aimed at developing the Centre’s strategic direction for the period 2026–2030. This workshop was organised following the expiry of the previous Strategic plan (2017-2022) for the

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Kick-Starting a Research Project Towards Strengthening Guarding Waiting Shelters in Malawi’s Health System

The national Guardian Waiting Shelters (GWS) study launch was a significant event that brought together key local stakeholders from across Malawi. This national-wide GWS study – led by the Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences (MUBAS) through WASHTED Centre in collaboration with University of Strathclyde, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

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Intervention Development Workshop for Adolescent WASH Practices Held in Mulanje

From 31st March to 4th April 2025, the WASHTED’s NIHR research team under Work Strand 4 (WS4), convened in Mulanje for a five-day intervention development workshop. The workshop aimed to design evidence-based behaviour change interventions targeting key WASH-related practices among adolescents, informed by findings from formative research and co-design sessions with the Youth Technical Working

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