Malawi Vice President, Joyce Banda has managed to raise K25 million from the private sector to help in safe motherhood so that the country remains on track to achieving one of the UN Millennium Development Goals of reducing maternal mortality.
The deputy president who is also goodwill ambassador of safe motherhood disclosed this at a fundraising [...]
senior official from Malawi’s National Aids Commission (NAC), a body that coordinates the national response to HIV/Aids in the country, said that it had distributed over MK30 billion (US$120 million) to respond to the pandemic since its inception in 2003.
NAC Chairperson Archbishop Bernard Malango said this on Thursday during the disbursement [...]
Secretary for Health and Nutrition in the office of the President and cabinet, Mary Shawa (pictured) has said government has managed to withdraw all the expired antiretrovirals (ARVS) from all the government hospitals in the country
Published reports late last year said many government hospitals in the country were giving HIV positive citizen the expired ARVs.
But [...]
Currently spearheading the ‘onelove’ campaign by addressing the issue of multiple and concurrent sexual partnerships (MCP) in the country, Pakachere Institute of Health and Development Communication (IHDC) brought together a group of local journalists in Blantyre to discuss critical issues pertaining to the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Held at Sunbird Mount Soche Hotel, the media workshop was one [...]
Research findings by Bunda College of Agriculture, a constituent college of the University of Malawi has discovered that Usipa and Utaka fish can help people living with HIV and AIDS live a long and healthy life.
Professor Peter Mumba, a leading agricultural expert at Bunda College observed that the world has tended to ignore the nutritional [...]
Health authorities have given an assurance that there is tremendous progress in the process of turning the central medical stores into an independent Medical trust.
The central medical stores is being turned into a trust following a public outcry over its inefficiencies, in servicing the country’s hospitals.
The department, which is currently operating under the Ministry of [...]
Health authorities in Mangochi are working overtime to try to comprehend a strange ailment that has broken out and is attacking children in the lakeshore district.
At least 14 children from two villages in the area of Traditional authority Makanjira have been admitted at the district hospital from the strange condition since Tuesday.
Several other children are [...]
Malawi plans to increase HIV positive people on the national life-prolonging anti-retroviral (ARVs) programme from 270, 000 to 500, and 000 in 2010, Vice-President Joyce Banda has disclosed.
Banda, whose office encompasses the Department of Nutrition and HIV/AIDS in the Office of the President and Cabinet, said to reach this feat Malawi plans to establish its [...]
Malawi government intends to introduce door to door testing for HIV as one way of reaching out to the masses in the provision of HIV services, said Dr Mary Shawa, Principal Secretary in the department of Nutrition, HIV and Aids.
She said the idea for the door to door administration of HIV comes from the community [...]
Malawi has a projected 55 percent reduction in student enrolments in colleges where they produce over 90 percent of health workers, Medicins Sans Frontiers Mission Director Nabiya Saddiq said here Wednesday.
She told journalists that the recent government decision to stop its sponsorship of mid-level cadre health workers has accelerated the existing [...]