Merten, Sonja

Bapolisi, Wyvine Ansima; Dumbaugh, Mari; Felber, Selina; Bisimwa, Ghislain; Merten, Sonja (2024). Family planning in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo: personal beliefs, intimate partner negotiations and social pressure. (In Press). Culture, health & sexuality, pp. 1-15. Taylor & Francis 10.1080/13691058.2024.2321911

Wüthrich-Grossenbacher, Ursula; Mutsinze, Abigail; Wolf, Ursula; Maponga, Charles Chiedza; Midzi, Nicholas; Mutsaka-Makuvaza, Masceline Jenipher; Merten, Sonja (2023). Spiritual and religious aspects influence mental health and viral load: a quantitative study among young people living with HIV in Zimbabwe. BMJ global health, 8(8) BMJ Publishing Group 10.1136/bmjgh-2023-012671

Ombere, Stephen O; Nyambedha, Erick O; Haller, Tobias; Merten, Sonja (2023). Local perspectives on policy implementation of free maternity health services in Kenya: Implications for universal health coverage. African journal of reproductive health, 27(5s), pp. 71-81. Women's Health and Action Research Center

Wüthrich-Grossenbacher, Ursula; Mutsinze, Abigail; Wolf, Ursula; Maponga, Charles Chiedza; Midzi, Nicholas; Mutsaka-Makuvaza, Masceline; Merten, Sonja (26 April 2023). Spiritual and religious aspects influence mental health and viral load: A quantitative study among young people living with HIV in Zimbabwe (medRxiv). Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 10.1101/2023.04.24.23289049

Wüthrich-Grossenbacher, Ursula; Mutsinze, Abigail; Wolf, Ursula; Maponga, Charles Chiedza; Midzi, Nicholas; Mutsaka-Makuvaza, Masceline Jenipher; Merten, Sonja (2023). A validation of the religious and spiritual struggles scale among young people living with HIV in Zimbabwe: Mokken scale analysis and exploratory factor analysis. Frontiers in psychology, 14, p. 1051455. Frontiers Research Foundation 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1051455

Merten, Sonja; Haller, Tobias (2023). Interwoven Landscapes: Gender and Land in the Kafue Flats, Zambia. Land, 12(9), p. 1657. MDPI 10.3390/land12091657

Ombere, Stephen Okumu; Nyambedha, Erick Otieno; Haller, Tobias; Merten, Sonja (2023). Anti-Politics and Free Maternal Health Services in Kilifi County, Kenya. African studies, 82(1), pp. 85-97. Taylor & Francis 10.1080/00020184.2023.2241833

Ombere, Stephen O; Nyambedha, Erick O; Haller, Tobias; Merten, Sonja (2022). Measures adopted by indigent mothers in Kilifi County to tackle maternal health challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study. African journal of reproductive health, 26(12s), pp. 57-65. Women's Health and Action Research Center

Mhalu, Grace; Weiss, Mitchell G; Hella, Jerry; Mhimbira, Francis; Mahongo, Enos; Schindler, Christian; Reither, Klaus; Fenner, Lukas; Zemp, Elisabeth; Merten, Sonja (2019). Explaining patient delay in healthcare seeking and loss to diagnostic follow-up among patients with presumptive tuberculosis in Tanzania: a mixed-methods study. BMC health services research, 19(1), p. 217. BioMed Central 10.1186/s12913-019-4030-4

Haller, Tobias; Merten, Sonja (2018). Crafting Our Own Rules: Constitutionality as a Bottom-Up Approach for the development of By-Laws in Zambia. Human ecology, 46(1), pp. 3-13. Springer 10.1007/s10745-017-9917-2

Haller, Tobias; Merten, Sonja (2013). Losing the commons – fighting with magic: Institutional Change, Fortress Conservation and Livelihood Strategies of the Batwa, Kafue Flats Floodplain, Zambia. In: Cliggett, Lisa; Bond, Virginia (eds.) Tonga Timeline. Appraising Sixty Years of Multidisciplinary Research in Zambia and Zimbabwe (pp. 207-238). Lusaka/Oxford: Limbani Trust /ABC books

Martin Hilber, Adriane; Kenter, Elise; Redmond, Shelagh; Merten, Sonja; Bagnol, Brigitte; Low, Nicola; Garside, Ruth (2012). Vaginal practices as women's agency in sub-Saharan Africa: a synthesis of meaning and motivation through meta-ethnography. Social science & medicine, 74(9), pp. 1311-1323. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.11.032

Haller, Tobias; Merten, Sonja (2010). "We had cattle and did not fish and hunt anyhow!" Institutional Change and Contested Commons in the Kafue Flats Floodplain (Zambia). In: Haller, Tobias (ed.) Disputing the Floodplains: Institutional Change and the Politics of Resource Management in African Floodplains. African Social Studies Series: Vol. 22 (pp. 301-359). Leiden, Boston: Brill

Merten, Sonja; Haller, Tobias (2009). Whose Logic? The Local Redistribution of Food Aid Targeting Old and Chronically Sick People in Zambia. Human organization, 68(1), pp. 89-102. Washington, D.C.: Society for Applied Anthropology

Haller, Tobias; Merten, Sonja (2008). We are Zambians - Don’t Tell Us How to Fish!" Institutional Change, Power Relations and Conflicts in the Kafue Flats Fisheries in Zambia. Human ecology, 36(5), pp. 699-715. New-York, NY: Springer 10.1007/s10745-008-9191-4

Merten, Sonja; Haller, Tobias (2008). Property rights, food security and child growth: Dynamics of insecurity in the Kafue Flats of Zambia. Food policy, 33(5), pp. 434-443. Amsterdam: Elsevier 10.1016/j.foodpol.2008.01.004

Haller, Tobias; Merten, Sonja (2007). Culture, changing livelihoods, and HIV/AIDS discourse: Reframing the institutionalization of fish-for-sex exchange in the Zambian Kafue Flats. Culture, health & sexuality, 10(1), pp. 69-83. Taylor & Francis

Haller, Tobias; Merten, Sonja (2006). „No capital needed!“ De facto open access to Common Pool Resources, Poverty and Conservation in the Kafue Flats, Zambia. Policy Matters; newsletter of the IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy, 14, pp. 103-113. IUCN

Haller, Tobias; Merten, Sonja (2005). Polygamy and Livestock: Security during the 2002 Drought in an Ila chiefdom in Zambia. In: Mayor, Anne; Roth, Claudia; Droz, Yvan (eds.) Soziale Sicherheit und Entwicklung / Sécurité Sociale et Développement. Schweizerische Afrikastudien - Etudes africaines suisses: Vol. 5 (pp. 69-90). Münster: Lit Verlag