Darkness falls in Blantyre, as 3-yr-old boy dies, family hospitalized, for...
People in Mdeka Village in Blantyre in deep sadness and mourning over a tragedy that has befallen due to the death of a three-year-old boy who has died suddenly after consuming cooked cassava suspected...
View ArticleCAMA chastisises Pesticides Control Board’s failure to control unlicensed...
Consumer Association of Malawi (CAMA) has written a petition the Speaker of Parliament alerting the august House of the proliferation of pesticides being sold by unlicensed traders and from...
View ArticleCatholic Church intensifies fight against TB, leprosy in Malawi
A Catholic priest serving at St. Joseph Chiphwanya Parish in Dedza Diocese, Father Gerald Malota, has disclosed that the church has intensified efforts to combat tuberculosis (TB) and leprosy among...
View ArticleDialogue still needed for meaningful embracing of harm reduction
Despite the tobacco control movement’s firm stance and relentless efforts against tobacco while citing the product’s negative effects on public health, the need for a more balanced and collaborative...
View ArticleParliament meets Mangochi resort hotels and lodges to induce them to SRWB...
The Parliamentary Committee of Natural Resources & Climate Change has invited owners of major resort hotels and lodges in Mangochi to an interface to impress on them on the need to adhere to...
View ArticleBlantyre health centres provided with motorcycles for direct delivery of...
Blantyre District Health Office (DHO) has provided 18 motorcycles to health centres under its jurisdiction for direct delivery of routine immunisation vaccines and other interventions — dubbed the...
View ArticleRemoving bureaucracies to embrace harm reduction key to achieving a...
Tobacco harm reduction strategies including vaping and nicotine replacement therapy among others have proven to be effective in reducing harm such as oral and lung cancer, associated with tobacco...
View ArticleDrug Policy and Harm Reduction Platform advocates for support for persons who...
Drug Policy and Harm Reduction Platform (DPHRP) Malawi has expressed its strongest disapproval against what it describes as outdated laws, which were designed to punish persons who use drugs (PWUDs)....
View ArticleDPP Mulanje West MP Nthenda launches construction of K80m hospital project in...
Mulanje West Member of Parliament, Yusuf Nthenda, has called on residents near Muliya Trading Centre to safeguard the construction materials for a new clinic. Nthenda made this appeal during the launch...
View ArticleTiyambaso kunyanyala ntchito, ogwira ntchito za umoyo muzipatala za boma...
Ogwira ntchito za umoyo mdziko muno achenjeza kuti ayamba kachikena kunyanyala ntchito mu zipatala zonse za boma mdziko muno. Izi zikudza pomwe bungwe la oimila ogwira ntchito za umoyo-wa la Physician...
View ArticleMabungwe a NAC, PMRA akhumudwa ndi kufala kwa mauthenga a bodza a mankhwala a...
Mabungwe a National Aids Commission (NAC) ndi Pharmacy and Medicines Regulatory Authority (PMRA) ati ndiokhumudwa ndi kufala kwa mchitidiwe ofalitsa mauthenga abodza okhudza matenda a edzi kudzera...
View ArticleMalawi contains cholera outbreak, but preventive measures to continue
The Ministry of Health has announced that the country has successfully contained a cholera outbreak, which claimed dozens of lives from 2022 to 2024. President Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera declared...
View ArticleIs HIV/Aids finally ending? World’s seventh person cured from the pandemic
Scientists are set to reveal details about the “next Berlin Patient”, now recognised as the world’s seventh person cured of HIV following a stem cell transplant. This has been revealed at the ongoing...
View ArticleFCB pump in K20 million towards Breast Cancer Care Foundation awareness
The First Capital Bank (FCB) has donated K20 million to the Breast Cancer Care Foundation which will help to carter in raising awareness on issues to do with cancer. FCB through Head of Marketing and...
View ArticleCrisis at Kuhes as University Council ‘doctors’ the bullying probe report to...
Nyasatimes has gathered information which implicate the University Council of Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (Kuhes) of attempting to doctor a report on a probe into allegations of student...
View ArticleSTI treatment: Chiseso, the herbal remedy making waves in Malawi
A new herbal product, Chiseso, has been launched in Malawi, claiming to cure Sexual Transmitted Infections (STIs) instantly. Developed by Warm Heart Herbs, a local herbal company, Chiseso has already...
View ArticleHealth workers threaten to report Usi to MHRC for openly rebuking a nurse
In a suprising tale, Physician Assistants Union of Malawi and Society of Medical Doctors in Malawi have said they will report Vice- President Michael Usi to the Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC)...
View ArticleJoggers on the Move to support solar power installation at Matekenya Health...
Joggers on the Move has commended private sector for coming in support of their project which is aimed at ensuring that Matekenya Health Centre is installed with solar power. Joggers on the Move...
View ArticleMalawi registers success in Malaria Vaccine Pilot Program
The Ministry of Health in Malawi says children are responding positively to the malaria vaccine currently being piloted in the country, along with two other nations. Minister Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda...
View ArticleMPs need to engage constituents for the enactment of Termination of Pregnancy...
Abortion in one way is illegal but termination of pregnancy is legal — but it goes with it some restrictive conditions, which deny women and girls liberty to abort unplanned pregnancies and they resort...
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