Malawi vaccinates 1.5 million children against malaria
Officials from ministry of Health say nearly 1.5 million under five children have received at least one dose of the malaria vaccine in the country since 2019. The government is piloting the malaria...
View ArticleGlobal health partners set to vaccinate millions of children
The World Health Organization (WHO); UNICEF; the Vaccine Alliance Gavi and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — along with Immunisation Agenda 2030 and many other global and national health...
View ArticleUSAID grants UNICEF US$2.5m to scale up Cholera response in Malawi
The Government of the United States of America, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), has provided US$ 2.1 million (approximately MKW 2.18 billion) and committed an additional...
View ArticleMalawi Govt unveils Malaria Communication Strategy
The Malawi Government on Tuesday unveiled the first-ever Malaria Communication Strategy, which seeks to help in making follow ups on how the districts are responding to the fight and prevention of the...
View ArticleMangochi registers strides in malaria vaccine administration
Mangochi has registered significant strides in the administration of malaria vaccine, effectively inspiring hope for an end to the disease in the lakeshore district. Authorities at Mangochi District...
View ArticleHealth workers tout routine vaccination programme as game-changer in malaria...
Health workers in Machinga have described the ongoing Malaria Vaccination Programme as a game-changer in the fight against malaria in the district. Machinga is one of the districts benefiting from the...
View ArticleMalawi needs 100 orthopaedic surgeons to eliminate trauma burdens
Malawi Orthopaedic Association (MOA) says Malawi needs, at least, 100 orthopaedic surgeons to properly help eliminate the burden of trauma cases. The association’s president, Moreen Sabawo said this in...
View ArticleAlliance One donates medical equipment Mzuzu Central Hospital
Management of Mzuzu Central Hospital (MCH) has commended tobacco buying and processing company Alliance One Tobacco Malawi for donating various medical equipment to the hospital’s paediatric section,...
View ArticleGovernment launches 2023 Supplementary Immunization Campaign
Government on Thursday launched the 2023 Supplementary Immunization Campaign, describing it as the most cost effective and sure way of preventing vaccine preventable diseases in children. Secretary for...
View ArticleGlobal oncologists call for concerted efforts to eliminate cancer
Global cancer specialists have called for concerted efforts to eliminate breast and cervical cancer, which accounts for 51.5 deaths per 100, 000 per year. Founder and director of the American Society...
View ArticleGovt impressed with typhoid, polio, measles and rubella immunization campaign
The Ministry of Health has expressed satisfaction with the progress the country is making in its campaign to vaccinate children against typhoid, polio, measles and rubella diseases. The ministry, in...
View ArticleMinistry of Health upbeat to surpass 9 million children in vaccination campaign
Officials from Ministry of Health are upbeat they will surpass the nine million children target for the integrated mass immunisation campaign against typhoid, Polio, measles and rubella. The Campaign...
View ArticleParliamentary committee wants libido enhancing drug off pharmacy shelves
Members of Health Committee of Parliament have told the Pharmacy and Medicines Regulatory Authority (PMRA) to ensure that a libido enhancing drug, viagra, is off pharmacy shelves. Commitee members were...
View ArticleNAC commended for strides made towards eliminating HIV and Aids in Malawi
Malawi Government has commended the National Aids Commission (NAC) for the strides it has made towards eliminating new HIV and Aids infections in the country. Speaking at the National Dissemination...
View ArticleMale, female TB patients share ward at Ntcheu District Hospital
Male and female tuberculosis (TB) patients are sharing a ward at Ntcheu District Hospital, a situation that the hospital ombudsman, Beatrice Chimwala, says is compromising the patients privacy....
View ArticleMalawi has the highest prevalence rate of cervical cancer in the world as...
Medical experts are sounding an alarm following revelations that nearly 3,000 women in the country die due to cervical cancer every year, putting the country as the highest with cervical cancer...
View ArticleYouths not aware of dangers of drug abuse – report
Majority of the young people in both private and public schools in Malawi are not fully aware of the dangers of drug use and many see drugs as a solution to their problems, a narrative report by Drug...
View Article3000 girls, women in unsafe abortions in Blantyre, 4 die
Officials from Blantyre District Health Office say over 3000 girls and women carried out unsafe abortions in Blantyre in the year 2022, leading to four deaths, renewing calls for legalisation of...
View ArticleMalawi adjusts some travel requirements related to CoVID-19 pandemic
Effective Monday, June 5, 2023 — as soon as revised CoVID-19 Rules & Regulations are duly gazetted — the Presidential Taskforce on CoVID-19 & Cholera has adjusted some travel requirements...
View ArticleLilongwe DHO registers 13 leprosy cases in 5 months
Lilongwe District Health Office (DHO) registered 13 cases of leprosy between January and May 2023, a development that points to the fact that Hansen’s disease is fast resurfacing in Malawi. A...
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