Blantyre City residents have been advised that sharing messages about the spread and prevention of HIV/AIDS can play a leading role in reducing the spread of the virus. This was said during the commemoration of...
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Government says it will soon start screening all new prisoners for Tuberculosis (TB) as way of curbing the outbreak of the air borne disease in congested prisoners. Health minister Peter Kumpalume said this on Friday...
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Zomba District Health officials say 300 people were affected by typhoid fever which forced St Lukes Hospital to send back home 200 students. District Health Officer Gift Kawaledzira however said the situation is now under...
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UN secretary general Ban Ki Moon Monday comfortably attended a high level HIV and AIDS conference in South Africa, just hours after he made an emergency landing at Kamuzu International Airport in Lilongwe to refuel...
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As government is grappling with drug pilferage in public hospitals, some concerned sex workers at Nkhotakota boma have questioned the alleged act of selling condoms that some workers at the district’s hospital are doing. They...
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Government has said it has put on hold its decision to private public hospital mortuaries due to lack of money. Through reforms government is undertaking, it want to delink mortuaries from public hospitals using the Private...
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Minister of Health Dr Peter Kumpalema says utilisation of evidence in decision making process in health sector can help to improve health outcomes and reduce high disease burden in Malawi. Kumpalume said this in Lilongwe...
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Malawian doctor, McNeil Ngongondo has won a grant to conduct Paediatric HIV research among six successful applicants from a list of applicants from 25 countries. Communication from the International Aids Society (IAS) says the two...
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A research has shown that the London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy (LMUP), a new and psychometrically valid measure of pregnancy intention that was developed in the United Kingdom, can be used in the country, according...
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The St. Andrews Hospital of the Anglican Church in Mtunthama, Kasungu this week embarked on free eye operations on about 100 patients, most of them the elderly. According to the Hospital Administrator, Chris Zambira, the...
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Chief of Health Services in the ministry of Health Charles Mwansambo has said plans by government to have paying treatment in public district hospitals is on track. He, however, said the government will still continuee...
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Airtel, Malawi’s leading mobile telecommunications provider and NGO VillageReach are announcing the official launch of Airtel Chipatala Cha Pa Foni (CCPF) or “Health Center by Phone.” The launch represents an expansion in the range of...
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Lack of information on sexual reproductive health (SRH) among the youth is said to be contributing to the increase of teenage pregnancies and child marriages in Karonga, Kachila Youth Initiative says. The organization’s Executive Director,...
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The Director for Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH), Dr. Jonathan Ngoma has described his staff working in the pediatrics department as a committed and hard working team. Ngoma made the remarks on Tuesday when he received,...
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The Norwegian Ambassador on Wednesday handed over Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and High Dependence Unit (HDU) project to Kamuzu Central Hospital. Receiving the project on behalf of the hospital, Minister of Health Dr. Peter Kumpalume...
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Malawi churches top leaders are meeting in Mangochi at the Sun n Sand holiday resort, dialoguing on Maternal Health, Human Rights and Abortion Law Reform from 28th to 29th July 2016. On day one Thursday,...
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Premier mobile network and ICT provider TNM has donated K3 million to Operation Smile Malawi, a local and international team of surgeons who are in the country to undertake free screening and surgeries at Zomba Central...
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Malawi Council of Churches (MCC) has expressed optimism that the faith community will endorse the reformed abortion laws and policies to ensure women and girls, mostly from poor families, are not dying of unsafe abortions...
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As other public hospitals are struggling to have adequate and appropriate medical equipment, Ntcheu District Hospital has a reason to smile following a donation of assorted medical equipment worth K3 million from International Ladies Benevolent...
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A recent study by White Ribbon Alliance for safe motherhood has discovered an acute shortage of midwives in health facilities across the country with a total of only 3233 midwives. When presenting the preliminary findings...
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