I have raised K25 million for safe motherhood in Malawi – Joyce Banda

By Nyasa Times

Published: March 9, 2010

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 [...]

NAC grants local bodies millions to fight HIV/Aids

By Nyasa Times

Published: March 4, 2010

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 [...]

Govt recalls expired Aids drugs- Shawa

By Nyasa Times

Published: March 2, 2010

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 [...]

Pakachere engages scribes in HIV/AIDS prevention

By Nyasa Times

Published: February 28, 2010

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 [...]

Bunda research reveals Utaka, Usipa good for AIDS patients

By Nyasa Times

Published: February 23, 2010

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 [...]

Progress made to turn Medical Store into a Trust -official

By Nyasa Times

Published: February 20, 2010

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 [...]

Strange disease attacking children breaks out in Mangochi

By Nyasa Times

Published: February 17, 2010

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 put 500, 000 on ARVs in 2010 – VP

By Nyasa Times

Published: February 15, 2010

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 to introduce door to door testing for HIV

By Nyasa Times

Published: February 14, 2010

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 to suffer low enrolment at health schools : MSF

By Nyasa Times

Published: February 10, 2010

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 [...]

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