Kalondolondo advocates for extensive youth friendly health services in Malawi
Programme Manager for Kalondolondo, Jephter Mwanza has said the youth could be more productive if they had unlimited access to reproductive health services in the country. Mwanza made the observation...
View ArticleConcerned Malawians query ‘misleading’ Soul Winners Church advert
Nation Publications Limited has been queried for publishing adverts whose contents some readers believe are at times false and grossly misleading to the public. In a letter to the publishers,...
View ArticleZomba MP Luka donates ambulance to Lisanjala constituency
As one way of reducing under five and maternal deaths in the country, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Member of Parliament for Zomba Lisanjala Constituency Enock Elias Luka donated an ambulance to...
View ArticleCholera outbreak fears over Malawi floods
Severe floods in Malawi are raising fears of a large-scale cholera outbreak, a health official said on Thursday, as the country grapples with a disaster that has killed at least 48 people and made 70...
View ArticleJB foundation in safe motherhood pact with Area 23 clinic
The Joyce Banda Foundation International on Monday signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) where the foundation will foot all delivery bills at Achikondi Clinic in Area 23 in Lilongwe. This is the...
View Article20, 000 people cut off from rest of Malawi: In urgent need of aid, says...
Medical care and sanitation services are urgently needed in districts of Nsanje and the lower shire where at least 20, 000 people have been cut off from the rest of the country for the past ten days,...
View ArticleLow access to healthcare, Malawi report show
A 2013/2014 Malawi Service Provision Assessment (MSPA) report has shown that the majority of local health facilities face many challenges ranging to lack of basic amenities necessary for good...
View ArticleMalawi to get US$7m World Bank support for Ebola preparedness -Official
The World Bank is expected to give Malawi US$7 million to enable the southern African country to scale-up its efforts to prevent Ebola viral disease. Secretary for Health Chris Kang’ombe said Friday in...
View ArticleNursing Council talks tough on uniform
The Nurses and Midwives Council of Malawi has cautioned the Nursing and Midwifery fraternity that use of un prescribed uniform is disrespectful of the Ethical Code of Conduct of the Nursing and...
View ArticleMalawi govt dismisses Ebola scare claims
Malawi government officials have dismissed as untrue rumours that Nkhatabay Hospital was treating a man who had contracted the Ebola virus. Reports indicated Nkhatabay district hospital were...
View ArticleScabies outbreak hit Malawi flood-victims camps
An outbreak of scabies and other related skin diseases have attacked some camps in Chikhwawa District where thousands of people displaced by floods are accommodated, a health official in the district...
View ArticleRape, diarrhoea and malaria scare Malawi flooded hit areas: MSF deploys 70...
The Medicines San Frontiers (MSF) has deployed about 70 health workers in Nsanje and Chikhwawa in readiness for waterborne and airborne diseases that are likely to follow the recent floods. The health...
View ArticleGlobal Fund pledges $574m to Malawi for Aids fight –Minister
Global Fund has pledged a total USD574 million to Malawi in order to help the country ably fight against Malaria, Tuberculosis and Hiv and Aids, the country’s health minister has disclosed. Minister of...
View ArticleGlobal Health Corps recruiting Malawian youths to work as fellows
The Global Health Corps (GHC), a United States organization that promotes global health equity, has opened up another opportunity for vibrant young Malawians to become fellows. GHC fellows are fresh...
View ArticleMalawi arrest another fake doctor at Kamuzu Central Hospital
Malawi Police in Lilongwe have arrested Lansford Gogoda aged 26 who was masquerading as a medical doctor despite that he was unqualified. It is reported that nurses were unable to read some of the...
View ArticlePower outage affects Malawi health service delivery -Official
The Ministry of Health has expressed concern over power outage that has affected health service delivery in the country. Speaking on the development to the Malawi News Agency (Mana) on Wednesday,...
View ArticleCondoms on high demand in Malawi flood camps
There is high condom use in many flood victims’ camps in Chikwawa, and people there are appealing for more of this protective gear. Such camps include Sekeni 2, Jombo, Tizola, Chikuse, Malemia and...
View ArticleMalawi to delay health workers pay, govt asks them to brace
Malawi Government has warned its employees in the health sector to expect a delay in the payments of their February salaries and nurses have since bemoaned the sad development. According to a Memo from...
View ArticleMalaria incidences drop, Malawi health minister tells Parliament
Malawi Malaria cases in the country have drastically dropped, Minister of Health Jean Kalirani on Thursday told Malawi Parliament during her ministerial statement. “Despite the disease continuing to...
View ArticleKalirani says 1m in Malawi living with HIV: Drop in infections:
The number of people living with HIV in Malawi is said to be around 1,060,000, Minister of Health Dr Jean Kalirani told parliament, saying of these 147,000 are children and 913,000 are alduts....
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