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List of works by Sonja Merten

"We Had Cattle And Did Not Fish And Hunt Anyhow!" Institutional Change And Contested Commons In The Kafue Flats Floodplain (Zambia)

'I know it has worked for millions of years': the role of the 'natural' in parental reasoning against child immunization in a qualitative study in Switzerland

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A solution for creating competent health-care specialists: the Swiss School of Public Health+

scientific article published on December 2007

A systematic review of qualitative findings on factors enabling and deterring uptake of HIV testing in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Access to HIV/AIDS care: a systematic review of socio-cultural determinants in low and high income countries

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Ambiguous care: siblings and the economies of HIV-related care in Zambia

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Caesarean sections and breastfeeding initiation among migrants in Switzerland

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Comparing sociocultural features of cholera in three endemic African settings

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Couple experiences of provider-initiated couple HIV testing in an antenatal clinic in Lusaka, Zambia: lessons for policy and practice

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Creating competent health-care specialists: the Swiss school of public health

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Culture, changing livelihoods, and HIV/AIDS discourse: reframing the institutionalization of fish-for-sex exchange in the Zambian Kafue Flats

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Deterrents to HIV-patient initiation of antiretroviral therapy in urban Lusaka, Zambia: a qualitative study

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Do baby-friendly hospitals influence breastfeeding duration on a national level?

scientific article published in November 2005

Enhancing the Understanding of Resilience in Health Systems of Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Qualitative Evidence Synthesis

scientific article published in 2021

Evaluating the comparative effectiveness of different demand side interventions to increase maternal health service utilization and practice of birth spacing in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo: an innovative, mixed methods approach.

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Exclusive breastfeeding rates and associated factors in Swiss baby-friendly hospitals

scientific article published in February 2004

Food Security from the Forest: The Case of the Commodification of Baobab Fruit (Adansonia digitata L.) in Boundou Region, Senegal

scientific article published in 2023

Gender Determinants of Vaccination Status in Children: Evidence from a Meta-Ethnographic Systematic Review

scientific article (publication date: 2015)

HIV testing and tolerance to gender based violence: a cross-sectional study in Zambia

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Impact of a complex gender-transformative intervention on maternal and child health outcomes in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo: protocol of a longitudinal parallel mixed-methods study

scientific article published on 14 January 2020

Individual and contextual factors influencing patient attrition from antiretroviral therapy care in an urban community of Lusaka, Zambia

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Local perceptions of cholera and anticipated vaccine acceptance in Katanga province, Democratic Republic of Congo

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Non-Uptake of HIV Testing in Children at Risk in Two Urban and Rural Settings in Zambia: A Mixed-Methods Study

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Parental attitudes towards measles vaccination in the canton of Aargau, Switzerland: a latent class analysis

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Patient-reported barriers and drivers of adherence to antiretrovirals in sub-Saharan Africa: a meta-ethnography

scientific article published on June 2010

Personal support and expressions of care for pregnant women in Soweto, South Africa

scientific article published on January 2017

Prevalence and social drivers of HIV among married and cohabitating heterosexual adults in south-eastern Tanzania: analysis of adult health community cohort data

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Property rights, food security and child growth: Dynamics of insecurity in the Kafue Flats of Zambia

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Self-care practices and experiences of people living with HIV not receiving antiretroviral therapy in an urban community of Lusaka, Zambia: implications for HIV treatment programmes

scientific article published on 15 May 2013

Sex differentials in the uptake of antiretroviral treatment in Zambia

scientific article published on 25 March 2014

Sociocultural determinants of anticipated oral cholera vaccine acceptance in three African settings: a meta-analytic approach

scientific article published on 14 January 2016

Sociocultural determinants of anticipated vaccine acceptance for acute watery diarrhea in early childhood in Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of Congo

scientific article published on 22 July 2013

Stillen in der Schweiz: Erfolg und Herausforderung

Talking about sex in pregnancy: reflections from the field in urban South Africa

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The baby-friendly hospital initiative in Switzerland: trends over a 9-year period

scientific article published on 11 April 2013

The context of emergency contraception use among young unmarried women in Accra, Ghana: a qualitative study

scholarly article by Slawa Rokicki & Sonja Merten published 19 December 2018 in Reproductive Health

The timing of complementary feeding of infants in Switzerland: Compliance with the Swiss and the WHO guidelines

scholarly article by Julia Dratva et al published 2 January 2007 in Acta Paediatrica

The timing of complementary feeding of infants in Switzerland: Compliance with the Swiss and the WHO guidelines

scientific article published on 01 July 2006

Vaginal practices as women's agency in sub-Saharan Africa: a synthesis of meaning and motivation through meta-ethnography

scientific article published on 28 January 2012

Vitamin D supplementation in Swiss infants.

scientific article published in July 2006

Whose Logic? The Local Redistribution of Food Aid Targeting Old and Chronically Sick People in Zambia

article published in 2009

Why do marital partners of people living with HIV not test for HIV? A qualitative study in Lusaka, Zambia

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Women and Fish-for-Sex: Transactional Sex, HIV/AIDS and Gender in African Fisheries

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“Climate Change and Health?”: Knowledge and Perceptions among Key Stakeholders in Puducherry, India

scientific article published in 2023

“We are Zambians—Don’t Tell Us How to Fish!” Institutional Change, Power Relations and Conflicts in the Kafue Flats Fisheries in Zambia

article by Tobias Haller & Sonja Merten published 25 September 2008 in Human Ecology