Media practitioners challenged to adhere to ethical reporting on tobacco harm...
Malawi’s leading tobacco harm reduction advocate, Chimwemwe Ngoma, has challenged media practitioners in the African continent to adhere to the highest standards of ethical reporting on electronic...
View Article‘Poor countries at risk of being dumping ground for combustible cigarettes’
Renowned public health activist, Dr. Kgosi Letlape, has warned that developing countries, particularly those in Africa, could soon become a dumping ground for combustible cigarettes if authorities do...
View ArticleWHO and governments are accused of protecting and promoting combustible...
A public health expert at the ongoing Third Edition of The Harm Reduction Exchange 2023 Conference in Nairobi, Kenya, has highlighted a ‘vested interest’ by World Health Organization (WHO) and...
View ArticleLilongwe NGO fights for the rights of people living with down syndrome
Centre for Down Syndrome Sickle Cell and Autism (CEDOSSA) has called for inclusion of people living with the condition into all national programming. Speaking in Lilongwe when the organisation...
View ArticleNBM takes Mental Health Inter-University Social Weekend shindig to Lilongwe
National Bank of Malawi (NBM) Plc at the weekend took the Inter-University Social Weekend to Lilongwe with the core objective of raising awareness about mental health among university students while...
View ArticleSmoking: Pregnant Women At Risk of Delivering Stillbirths, Miscarriage and...
A study has established that pregnant women who smoke (tobacco) are at greater risk of delivering stillbirths, premature births and/or miscarriage while passive smokers (exposure of the non-smoking...
View ArticlePoor sanitation triggers Cholera in Malawi capital city
Malawi Capital City, Lilongwe has been hit by an outbreak of cholera with authorities registering 15 cases within the past days primarily due to poor sanitation and lack of clean drinkable water....
View ArticleGovt, partners move to address HAS-patient ratio
Minister of Health Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda says it has partnered with various organizations to reduce the health surveillance assistant (HSA)-patient ratio from 1, 600 to 1, 000 patients against one...
View ArticleHBCU challenges DCSAs to be best version in healthcare provision
United States-based Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have challenged healthcare workers who have graduated from the 12-week training in Disease Control and Surveillance Assistance...
View ArticleNEST (360) Program commits to improving the quality of care for newborns in...
Newborn Essential Solutions and Technologies – NEST (360) Program – has expressed commitment to complementing government efforts to improve the quality of care given to small and sick newborns in...
View ArticleDebate Against Smoke-Free Products Pushing People to Smoke Tobacco More-PMI
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), the tobacco epidemic is one of the biggest global public health threats, killing over eight million people per year, out of which more than seven...
View ArticleMalawi Government worried with increased cases of trauma, injuries
Malawi Government has expressed worry with high numbers of trauma and injury cases mainly due to road accidents. Acting Deputy Director responsible for Emergency Response and Disaster Management in the...
View ArticleMalawi not left out in environmentally sustainable tobacco production
In tobacco production, curing the crop once it is harvested is an essential step towards making the harvested commodity ready for the market. The most common methods for curing tobacco are by air,...
View ArticleAll Stakeholders Can Contribute to Achieving Smoke-free Future – PMI
About 27 million smokers have adopted smoke free products around the world. To sustain this progress and record more success, all stakeholders such as the media, public health experts and the general...
View ArticleMalawi told to decriminalize attempted suicide
LifeLine ANPPCAN Malawi, a member of Lifeline International which focuses on mental health, has asked Malawi government to decriminalize attempted suicide. Country Deputy Director of Lifeline ANPPCAN...
View ArticleWHO recommended malaria vaccine starts being shipped to Africa
Shipments of the world’s first WHO-recommended malaria vaccine (RTS,S) have begun with 331,200 doses landing on Tuesday night in Yaoundé, Cameroon — heralding final steps toward broader vaccination of...
View ArticleAlliance One renovates KCH’s pediatric ward
Management of Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) has commended Alliance One Tobacco for renovating the referral medical facility’s paediatric ward saying the development will help to enhance hygiene...
View ArticleACHA donates relief items to Cyclone Freddy cervical cancer survivors in...
African Cervical Health Alliance (ACHA) in partnership with Women’s Coalition Against Cancer (WOCACA) recently donated assorted items of food, non-food items and cash to Tikondane Women’s Group...
View ArticleYunnan University researcher Ming Deng proses integration of regulation and...
Head of the Next-Generation Products (NGPs) industry at Yunnan University, Douglas Ming Deng, has proposed that there should be integration of regulation and innovation into all the interventions...
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