Malawi to administer second jab of AstraZeneca vaccine from June 3
Malawians who got the first dose of the Covid-19 AstraZeneca vaccine will start getting their second and last from June 3 next month, the Ministry of Health (MoH) has announced. A statement from MoH...
View ArticleSalima Sugar Company closes its estate over CoVID-19 spread
Following a directive from Minister Health, Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda, Salima Sugar Company has temporarily suspended its operations for the next 14 days in order to contain the CoVID-19 spread that...
View ArticleMalawi govt to destroy 19, 610 doses of expired Covid-19 vaccines on Wednesday
The Malawi Government has disclosed that it will destroy 19, 610 doses of expired coronavirus disease (Covid-19) vaccines next Wednesday. These are part of the 102,000 doses, which Malawi received from...
View ArticleChurch body engages sexually active men, boys on HIV testing
“When you know you status you plan your life.” Everyone knows about HIV, what causes it, and how it is transmitted – and that it has no cure. But the biggest question is, does everybody know their...
View ArticleMalawians say incineration programme of Covid-19 vaccine doses ‘was too...
A horde of Malawians have taken to various social media platforms, especially Facebook, to vent out their discontent on why a whole Minister of Health, Khumbize Kandodo-Chiponda, would “stoop so low”...
View Article337, 000 Malawians get Covid-19 vaccine, so far
The Malawi Government has disclosed that 336, 826 people have received coronavirus disease (Covid-19) vaccine since President Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera launched the jab on March 1, 2021. Of these, 1,...
View ArticleMalawi far from achieving Abuja Declaration on health financing
Malawi is among countries racing against time to achieve the Abuja Declaration, which rallies States and governments to commit 15 percent of their national budgets towards health financing. Malawi is...
View ArticleACB, PPDA mum on blacklisting of corruption-laden Fresenius Medical Care
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) and the Public Procurement Disposal of Assets Authority (PPDA) have come under spotlight for failing to crack a whip on Fresenius Medical Care, which is embroiled in...
View ArticleChilima dazzled with Cancer Centre progress: Facility will be fully...
“I have been assured that by June next year, this facility will be a fully fledged centre.” The cancer centre currently under construction in Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe will be fully operational as of...
View ArticleMalawi launches WHO PEN-Plus plan to reduce burden of NCD
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are contributing 35 percent of the disease burden in Malawi, the Ministry of Health and Partners in Health (PIH) have disclosed. They made the sentiments in Lilongwe...
View ArticleMalawi still unsure of new Covid-19 strain
It is still unclear whether or not the country might have the third Coronavirus wave following reports that results of the 600 samples sent to the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) in South Africa to...
View ArticleMalawi ready for COVID-19 second phase vaccination on Thursday
Government has said it is prepared for the administration of the second dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine which the Ministry of Health (MoH) had already announced—over a month ago—would begin on Thursday...
View ArticleJapan supports Malawi with US$725 000 grant in COVID-19 vaccination efforts
The People of Japan have offered the people of Malawi a US$725 000 grant (about 574 million kwacha) whose chief purpose is to boost the country’s health system capacity as it rolls out the largest and...
View ArticleNew private hospital opens in Blantyre along Mandala Road at Ginnery Corner
* To offer affordable and equitable healthcare services A full scale healthcare facility, Atlas Medical Centre has been opened in Blantyre on Tuesday that is set to offer advanced and innovative...
View ArticleDrop in HIV/AIDS and nutrition funding worries parliamentary committee
The department of HIV/AIDS and Nutrition, under the Ministry of Health (MoH), has been allocated K58 billion in the 2021/2022 national budget, a drop from K80 billion in the last financial year; and,...
View ArticleOnly 19 Malawians receive second Covid-19 jab in two full days
A cloud of hesitancy continues to hover over thousands of Malawians on whether or not to go for Covid-19 vaccination as revelations indicate that at the close of business on Monday, only 19 people had...
View ArticleIllovo Sugar Company hands over rehabilitated pharmacy to KK Hospital
Illovo Sugar Malawi plc on Friday handed over a renovated pharmacy to Nkhotakota District Hospital with a reaffirmed commitment to complementing the government efforts in pushing for the quick wins and...
View ArticleEducation ministry sleeping on K5bn Covid-19 allocation
Teachers of Union of Malawi (TUM) has registered its concern saying they are yet to see results of a K5 billion allocation government made to their mother ministry—Ministry of Education—five months ago...
View ArticleTeeth Savers International, Colgate sensitize primary education advisors on...
Teeth Savers International in conjunction with Colgate Palmolive on Monday brought together Primary Education Advisors (PEAs) within Blantyre Urban to sensitize them on how they could make it a habit...
View ArticlePAC pledges to continue sensitizing Malawians on Covid-19
Quasi-religious grouping, Public Affairs Committee (PAC) has said it is equally concerned with the citizenry’s lack of seriousness in handling the Covid-19 pandemic, saying as faith leaders they will...
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