Sarah Svege

Position

PhD candidate, Medical doctor

Affiliation

Work

Malaria chemoprevention, child health and health services research in Malawi  

Malaria chemoprevention in children with sickle cell anaemia in Uganda 

Publications

Svege, S., Rujumba, J., Robberstad, B., Lange, S. “Can you bury him before he dies?” Sickle cell disease and social sites of suffering in Malawi and Uganda

Social Science and Medicine (2025) 

 

Svege, S., Lange, S., Robberstad, B., Rujumba, J. I want to help my body”: Acceptability of malaria chemoprevention among children with sickle cell anaemia and their caregivers in Malawi and Uganda

PLOS Global Public Health (2025) 

 

Svege, S., Rujumba, J., Robberstad, B., Lange, S. "Whatever is bad goes back to the woman": The gendered blame game of sickle cell disease in Malawi and Uganda

Social Science and Medicine (2024)

 

Lange S., Nkosi-Gondwe, T., Svege, S. WHO Guidelines for malaria: Systematic reviews, background papers and other unpublished evidence considered in the development of recommendations

World Health Organisation (2023): WHO Guidelines for malaria, Section 4.2.5 Post-discharge malaria chemoprevention (PDMC)  

 

Svege, S., Nkosi-Gondwe, T., Lange, S."Satanism is witchcraft's younger sibling": Changing perceptions of natural and supernatural anaemia causality in Malawian children 

PLOS ONE (2021)

 

Svege, S., Lange, S., Robberstad, B. Malariaprofylakse til barn med alvorlig anemi redder liv - men hva er den beste leveringsmetoden på landsbygda i Malawi?

Best Practice Nordic (2019)

 

Svege, S., Kaunda, B., Robberstad, B., Nkosi-Gondwe, T., Phiri, K.S, Lange, S. Post-discharge Malaria Chemoprevention (PMC) in Malawi: caregivers`acceptance and preferences with regard to delivery methods

BMC Health Services Research (2018)

Projects

THE CHEMCHA TRIAL: 

Dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine of malaria in children with sickle cell anaemia in eastern and southern Africa - the CHEMCHA trial 

https://prosjektbanken.forskningsradet.no/en/project/FORISS/285284 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcV4Pc2ysww 

THE PMC STUDY:

Malaria Chemoprevention for the post-discharge management of severe anaemia in children in Malawi, Uganda and Kenya: Moving towards policy

https://www.forskning.no/barn-og-ungdom-forebyggende-helse-malaria/who-endrer-retningslinjer-pa-grunn-av-norsk-malariaforskning/2041932 

https://www.uib.no/med/155545/malariaforskning-fra-uib-endrer-whos-retningslinjer 

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2002820