List of works - Astrid Blystad

"When the obvious brother is not there": political and cultural contexts of the orphan challenge in northern Uganda

scientific article

'An uneasy compromise': strategies and dilemmas in realizing a permissive abortion law in Ethiopia

scientific article published on 27 September 2019

'The divorce program': gendered experiences of HIV positive mothers enrolled in PMTCT programs - the case of rural Malawi ⬇️

scientific article published on October 26, 2010

A critical assessment of the WHO responsiveness tool: lessons from voluntary HIV testing and counselling services in Kenya

scientific article

A systems perspective on the importance of global health strategy developments for accomplishing today's Sustainable Development Goals

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

A systems perspective on the importance of global health strategy developments for accomplishing today's Sustainable Development Goals

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Accountable priority setting for trust in health systems--the need for research into a new approach for strengthening sustainable health action in developing countries.

scientific article published on 24 October 2009

Assessing performance enhancing tools: experiences with the open performance review and appraisal system (OPRAS) and expectations towards payment for performance (P4P) in the public health sector in Tanzania ⬇️

scientific article published on September 10, 2012

Boundaries of confidentiality in nursing care for mother and child in HIV programmes

scientific article published on 08 May 2015

Breastfeeding and HIV: experiences from a decade of prevention of postnatal HIV transmission in sub-Saharan Africa ⬇️

scientific article published on October 26, 2010

Challenges of disseminating clinical practice guidelines in a weak health system: the case of HIV and infant feeding recommendations in Tanzania

scientific article

Challenges to fair decision-making processes in the context of health care services: a qualitative assessment from Tanzania

scientific article

Community based interventions for strengthening adolescent sexual reproductive health and rights: how can they be integrated and sustained? A realist evaluation protocol from Zambia

scientific article published in 2018

Condom availability in high risk places and condom use: a study at district level in Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia

scientific article

Effectiveness of a girls' empowerment programme on early childbearing, marriage and school dropout among adolescent girls in rural Zambia: study protocol for a cluster randomized trial

scientific article published on 09 December 2016

Gender roles and informal care for patients with AIDS: a qualitative study from an urban area in Tanzania

scientific article

HIV and infant feeding counselling: challenges faced by nurse-counsellors in northern Tanzania

scientific article

Health, life and rights: a discourse analysis of a hybrid abortion regime in Tanzania

scientific article published on 27 September 2019

Increased fairness in priority setting processes within the health sector: the case of Kapiri-Mposhi District, Zambia

scientific article

Life after pelvic organ prolapse surgery: a qualitative study in Amhara region, Ethiopia.

scientific article

Living with pelvic organ prolapse: voices of women from Amhara region, Ethiopia

scientific article published on 30 July 2016

Negotiating credibility: first-time mothers' experiences of contact with the labour ward before hospitalisation

scientific article published on 18 January 2009

Pelvic floor disorders among women in Dabat district, northwest Ethiopia: a pilot study

scientific article

Perceived unfairness in working conditions: the case of public health services in Tanzania

scientific article

Poisonous milk and sinful mothers: the changing meaning of breastfeeding in the wake of the HIV epidemic in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ⬇️

scientific article published on October 26, 2010

Practicing provider-initiated HIV testing in high prevalence settings: consent concerns and missed preventive opportunities ⬇️

scientific article published on April 21, 2011

Reflections on female circumcision discourse in Hargeysa, Somaliland: purified or mutilated?

scientific article published in June 2014

Reflections on global policy documents and the WHO's infant feeding guidelines: lessons learnt ⬇️

scientific article published on October 26, 2010

Reflections on informed choice in resource-poor settings: the case of infant feeding counselling in PMTCT programmes in Tanzania

scientific article published on 18 January 2014

Reproductive health and the politics of abortion

scientific article published on 17 March 2020

Researcher-researched relationship in qualitative research: Shifts in positions and researcher vulnerability

scientific article published on 14 June 2016

Rethinking nursing care: An ethnographic approach to nurse–patient interaction in the context of a HIV prevention programme in rural Tanzania ⬇️

scientific article published on December 27, 2012

Shaping the abortion policy - competing discourses on the Zambian termination of pregnancy act

Silent politics and unknown numbers: Rural health bureaucrats and Zambian abortion policy

scientific article published on 10 March 2020

Silently waiting to heal: experiences among women living with urinary incontinence in northwest Ethiopia

scientific article published on 6 November 2012

Stakeholders' participation in planning and priority setting in the context of a decentralised health care system: the case of prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV programme in Tanzania

scientific article

Staying healthy "under the sheets": Inuit youth experiences of access to sexual and reproductive health and rights in Arviat, Nunavut, Canada

scientific article published on 09 December 2016

Strengthening validity in studies of pelvic floor disorders through qualitative research: an example from Ethiopia

scientific article published on 18 November 2017

Technologies of hope? Motherhood, HIV and infant feeding in eastern Africa

scientific article

The access paradox: abortion law, policy and practice in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia

scientific article published on 27 September 2019

The accountability for reasonableness approach to guide priority setting in health systems within limited resources--findings from action research at district level in Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia

scientific article

The burden of knowing: balancing benefits and barriers in HIV testing decisions. a qualitative study from Zambia

scientific article

The challenge of community engagement and informed consent in rural Zambia: an example from a pilot study

scientific article published on 04 July 2019

The decentralisation-centralisation dilemma: recruitment and distribution of health workers in remote districts of Tanzania

scientific article

The lucky ones get cured: Health care seeking among women with pelvic organ prolapse in Amhara Region, Ethiopia

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

The paradox of access - abortion law, policy and misoprostol.

scientific article

The seven Cs of the high acceptability of home-based VCT: results from a mixed methods approach in Zambia

scientific article published on 08 August 2013

Vanilla bisquits and lobola bridewealth: parallel discourses on early pregnancy and schooling in rural Zambia

scientific article published on 01 October 2020

Ways ahead: protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding in the context of HIV ⬇️

scientific article published on October 26, 2010

When abortion becomes public - Everyday politics of reproduction in rural Zambia

scientific article published on 05 November 2020

When the law makes doors slightly open: ethical dilemmas among abortion service providers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

scientific article published on 05 September 2019

Why do health workers in rural Tanzania prefer public sector employment?

scientific article

Why teach sexuality education in school? Teacher discretion in implementing comprehensive sexuality education in rural Zambia

scientific article published on 27 September 2019

‘Stay home for as long as possible’: Midwives' priorities and strategies in communicating with first-time mothers in early labour ⬇️

scientific article published on March 30, 2011

‘The waiting mode’: First-time mothers’ experiences of waiting for labour onset ⬇️

scientific article published on August 12, 2010

List of works by Astrid Blystad

"When the obvious brother is not there": political and cultural contexts of the orphan challenge in northern Uganda

'An uneasy compromise': strategies and dilemmas in realizing a permissive abortion law in Ethiopia

'The divorce program': gendered experiences of HIV positive mothers enrolled in PMTCT programs - the case of rural Malawi ⬇️

A critical assessment of the WHO responsiveness tool: lessons from voluntary HIV testing and counselling services in Kenya

A systems perspective on the importance of global health strategy developments for accomplishing today's Sustainable Development Goals

A systems perspective on the importance of global health strategy developments for accomplishing today's Sustainable Development Goals

Accountable priority setting for trust in health systems--the need for research into a new approach for strengthening sustainable health action in developing countries.

Assessing performance enhancing tools: experiences with the open performance review and appraisal system (OPRAS) and expectations towards payment for performance (P4P) in the public health sector in Tanzania ⬇️

Boundaries of confidentiality in nursing care for mother and child in HIV programmes

Breastfeeding and HIV: experiences from a decade of prevention of postnatal HIV transmission in sub-Saharan Africa ⬇️

Challenges of disseminating clinical practice guidelines in a weak health system: the case of HIV and infant feeding recommendations in Tanzania

Challenges to fair decision-making processes in the context of health care services: a qualitative assessment from Tanzania

Community based interventions for strengthening adolescent sexual reproductive health and rights: how can they be integrated and sustained? A realist evaluation protocol from Zambia

Condom availability in high risk places and condom use: a study at district level in Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia

Effectiveness of a girls' empowerment programme on early childbearing, marriage and school dropout among adolescent girls in rural Zambia: study protocol for a cluster randomized trial

Gender roles and informal care for patients with AIDS: a qualitative study from an urban area in Tanzania

HIV and infant feeding counselling: challenges faced by nurse-counsellors in northern Tanzania

Health, life and rights: a discourse analysis of a hybrid abortion regime in Tanzania

Increased fairness in priority setting processes within the health sector: the case of Kapiri-Mposhi District, Zambia

Life after pelvic organ prolapse surgery: a qualitative study in Amhara region, Ethiopia.

Living with pelvic organ prolapse: voices of women from Amhara region, Ethiopia

Negotiating credibility: first-time mothers' experiences of contact with the labour ward before hospitalisation

Pelvic floor disorders among women in Dabat district, northwest Ethiopia: a pilot study

Perceived unfairness in working conditions: the case of public health services in Tanzania

Poisonous milk and sinful mothers: the changing meaning of breastfeeding in the wake of the HIV epidemic in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ⬇️

Practicing provider-initiated HIV testing in high prevalence settings: consent concerns and missed preventive opportunities ⬇️

Reflections on female circumcision discourse in Hargeysa, Somaliland: purified or mutilated?

Reflections on global policy documents and the WHO's infant feeding guidelines: lessons learnt ⬇️

Reflections on informed choice in resource-poor settings: the case of infant feeding counselling in PMTCT programmes in Tanzania

Reproductive health and the politics of abortion

Researcher-researched relationship in qualitative research: Shifts in positions and researcher vulnerability

Rethinking nursing care: An ethnographic approach to nurse–patient interaction in the context of a HIV prevention programme in rural Tanzania ⬇️

Shaping the abortion policy - competing discourses on the Zambian termination of pregnancy act

Silent politics and unknown numbers: Rural health bureaucrats and Zambian abortion policy

Silently waiting to heal: experiences among women living with urinary incontinence in northwest Ethiopia

Stakeholders' participation in planning and priority setting in the context of a decentralised health care system: the case of prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV programme in Tanzania

Staying healthy "under the sheets": Inuit youth experiences of access to sexual and reproductive health and rights in Arviat, Nunavut, Canada

Strengthening validity in studies of pelvic floor disorders through qualitative research: an example from Ethiopia

Technologies of hope? Motherhood, HIV and infant feeding in eastern Africa

The access paradox: abortion law, policy and practice in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia

The accountability for reasonableness approach to guide priority setting in health systems within limited resources--findings from action research at district level in Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia

The burden of knowing: balancing benefits and barriers in HIV testing decisions. a qualitative study from Zambia

The challenge of community engagement and informed consent in rural Zambia: an example from a pilot study

The decentralisation-centralisation dilemma: recruitment and distribution of health workers in remote districts of Tanzania

The lucky ones get cured: Health care seeking among women with pelvic organ prolapse in Amhara Region, Ethiopia

The paradox of access - abortion law, policy and misoprostol.

The seven Cs of the high acceptability of home-based VCT: results from a mixed methods approach in Zambia

Vanilla bisquits and lobola bridewealth: parallel discourses on early pregnancy and schooling in rural Zambia

Ways ahead: protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding in the context of HIV ⬇️

When abortion becomes public - Everyday politics of reproduction in rural Zambia

When the law makes doors slightly open: ethical dilemmas among abortion service providers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Why do health workers in rural Tanzania prefer public sector employment?

Why teach sexuality education in school? Teacher discretion in implementing comprehensive sexuality education in rural Zambia

‘Stay home for as long as possible’: Midwives' priorities and strategies in communicating with first-time mothers in early labour ⬇️

‘The waiting mode’: First-time mothers’ experiences of waiting for labour onset ⬇️