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AIDS-affected young people's access to livelihood assets: Exploring 'new variant famine' in rural southern Africa (2016)
Journal Article
Ansell, N., Hajdu, F., van Blerk, L., & Robson, E. (2016). AIDS-affected young people's access to livelihood assets: Exploring 'new variant famine' in rural southern Africa. Journal of rural studies, 46, 23-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2016.05.008

Southern Africa’s exceptionally high HIV prevalence and recurrent food crises prompted De Waal and Whiteside (2003) to hypothesise a 'new variant famine' (NVF) in which inability to access food is driven by the effects of AIDS. Among the tentative ex... Read More about AIDS-affected young people's access to livelihood assets: Exploring 'new variant famine' in rural southern Africa.

Who bears the cost of ‘informal mhealth’? Health-workers’ mobile phone practices and associated political-moral economies of care in Ghana and Malawi (2016)
Journal Article
Hampshire, K., Porter, G., Mariwah, S., Munthali, A., Robson, E., Owusu, S. A., Abane, A., & Milner, J. (2017). Who bears the cost of ‘informal mhealth’? Health-workers’ mobile phone practices and associated political-moral economies of care in Ghana and Malawi. Health Policy and Planning, 32(1), 34-42. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czw095

Africa’s recent communications ‘revolution’ has generated optimism that using mobile phones for health (mhealth) can help bridge healthcare gaps, particularly for rural, hard-to-reach populations. However, while scale-up of mhealth pilots remains lim... Read More about Who bears the cost of ‘informal mhealth’? Health-workers’ mobile phone practices and associated political-moral economies of care in Ghana and Malawi.