Private sector has been encouraged to take a leading role on improving maternal health and safe motherhood progress by investing in its interventions if the country’s attainment is to be fast tracked. Currently, Malawi’s Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) for is at 675 per 100,000 live births. studies reveals untimely access to maternity and neonatal health care, […]
A New York based organization, AFYA Foundation, has pledged to support President Mrs. Joyce Banda’s initiatives towards improving maternal health in Malawi. The founder of AFYA Foundation, Danielle Butin made the pledge on Friday when she handed over a container full of assorted medical equipment and supplies to Malawi’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the United […]
The Network of Organization working with Vulnerable and orphaned Children in Malawi (NOVOC) has finally taken over the coordination of a five year Mkutamwana project in Salima from Family Health International (FHI) which has been running the project for the past four years. The main purpose of Mkutamwana project is to protect and uplift the […]
Head of Prison Health Services, Dr. Henry Ndidi says prisoners are among the high risk groups to contract HIV and AIDS because of tendency of Men having sex with Men (MSM). Dr. Ndindi made the observation on Wednesday during the National Dissemination Conference on the Legal and Policy Environment Assessment Report for HIV and AIDS […]
Cancer Association of Malawi (CAM) has said it imposes the lowest fees possible on its membership subscription with the goal to making it possible for the majority of Malawians to gain membership despite the fact that it relies on donations to carry out its services. CAM’s Chairperson, Chifundo Chogawana said the more members CAM has […]
Malawi’s Vice President, Khumbo Kachali, Monday launched the rotavirus vaccine, which will protect children under five from severe diaorhea. The event took place at Ntchisi Community ground. Speaking at the function, the vice president while observing that dioarrhea is a serious complexity and killer disease among young children in the country, he asked parents and […]
Convener of the 2nd Global Race to Save Lives from HIV and AIDS – SAVE international conference, Rev. Canon Gideon Byamugisha has said despite the majority of faith leaders working towards eradication of the scourge, there were some faith leaders who were working in the promotion of the disease to kill people. “We need to […]
President Joyce Banda Saturday said she would only help chiefs who have the welfare and the interest of their people at heart. Banda said this at Ncheu Boma when she closed a two day workshop for chiefs on Presidential Initiative on Safe Motherhood, Child and Maternal Deaths which she initiated six months ago. Participating in […]
Youths from 30 African countries will next month meet in Malawi’s capital Lilongwe where they will meet different stakeholders to discuss HIV/Aids and sexual reproductive health (SRH) issues affecting their nations and the region. Known as the Southern and Eastern Africa Youth Conference on HIV/Aids and Reproductive Health Rights for Sustainable Development (SEYCOHAIDS), the symposium […]
About 60 chiefs from various parts of the country have gathered in Malawi’s Central district of Ntcheu for a workshop on maternal health and Safe motherhood. The participants to the two-day workshop which started Thursday drawn from all districts in the country have been assembled by the Presidential Initiative on Safe Motherhood, Child and Maternal Deaths. […]
Led by the Malawi Council of Churches (MCC), the international faith community on Sunday held prayers as a lead to the week long international conference that seeks to drum up support towards zero deaths related from HIV and AIDS; zero new HIV infections; and zero stigma and discrimination. The theme was ‘Thus Far We Have […]
The Coalition of Women Living with HIV and AIDs in Malawi (COWLHA) and the Pan AFRICA Positive Women Coalition (PAPWC) on Monday presented a petition to the Speaker of National Assembly, Henry Chimunthu Banda for government to scale up efforts on access to HIV and AIDS treatment, in particular for women and children who are […]
Traditional leaders from sub traditional authority Chanthunga in Malawi’s eastern district of Balaka says are strictly enforcing by laws that seeks to safeguard the rights of the girl child. In this regard, the chiefs say they have agreed to ban early marriages among girls and are making sure parents and guardians are keeping their girl […]
Malawi still registers high rate of under-five child deaths among newborn infants despite concerted efforts to reduce the mortality rate for the past five years. According to a released stakeholders report, statistics indicate that 30 of every 1000 newborn infants die within the period of zero to 28 days. The report was presented during an […]
Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) says human rights issues need to be integrated in HIV and AIDS programmes especially at work places, saying the latter (HIV and AIDS) is in also a human rights issue. Commissioner for the MHRC, Dalitso Kubalasa, made the remarks in Mzuzu when he opened a meeting on rights based approach […]
A team of medical experts from the India government has committed itself to assist the Malawi government through The Presidential Initiative on Maternal Health and Safe Motherhood realize its goal to fight down maternal and neonatal deaths through provision of training medical experts, resource mobilization and treatment of other diseases from pregnancy complication. Dr. Devlina […]
Opposition party’s parliamentarian in Malawi Jolly Kalero on Wednesday commended efforts by President Mrs Joyce Banda in promoting women’s health thorough her brain child the Presidential Initiative for Maternal Health and Safe Motherhood. The initiative was largely established to reduce maternal deaths among mothers in the country. Kalero made the commendation at Lumbadzi Health Centre in the […]
Plans are underway for Malawi’s Ministry of Health to open the first ever cardiac center in the country at the Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) in the capital, Lilongwe. Government says once operational, the center, which is now at conceptualization stage, will save millions of Kwacha it spends on sending patients with heart problems to foreign […]