Lee Haeok, Bauleni Esther, Maluwa Veronica, Lee SangAh, Mtengezo Jasintha T, Kamvaunamwali Madalitso, Mlombe Yohannie
New York University, Meyers College of Nursing, New York, NY.
Faculty of Health Sciences, Daeyang University, Lilongwe, Malawi.
Nurs Outlook. 2025 Jan-Feb;73(1):102317. doi: 10.1016/j.outlook.2024.102317. Epub 2024 Nov 23.
The rapid spread and severity of COVID-19 brought major health challenges and dealt a heavy blow to key health services and daily life in Africa, including Malawi.
To explore and examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cervical cancer (CC) prevention behavior in Malawi through a decolonized lens.
A qualitative descriptive study informed by a decolonized perspective was conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic. A purposive sampling was taken from 17 key informant interviews, including, seven Malawian women living with HIV infection (WLWHIV).
Themes explored were that COVID-19 was indiscriminate towards not only health deterioration but also a social crisis and health was no longer an individual problem but a public and global issue across borders.
To uproot global health inequities, templates revolved around Western ways of knowing over national and global health need to be reexamined and methods reinvented to be relevant to local ways of knowing.
新冠病毒病（COVID-19）的迅速传播及其严重性带来了重大健康挑战，对包括马拉维在内的非洲关键卫生服务和日常生活造成了沉重打击。
通过非殖民化视角，探讨和研究COVID-19大流行对马拉维宫颈癌（CC）预防行为的影响。
在COVID-19大流行期间进行了一项基于非殖民化视角的定性描述性研究。采用目的抽样法，对17名关键信息提供者进行了访谈，其中包括7名感染艾滋病毒的马拉维女性（WLWHIV）。
探讨的主题包括，COVID-19不仅对健康恶化不加区分，而且引发了社会危机，健康不再是个人问题，而是一个跨越国界的公共和全球问题。
为了根除全球健康不平等现象，围绕西方认知方式的全球和国家卫生模式需要重新审视，方法需要重新创新，以适应地方认知方式。
