Malawi is making remarkable progress in the fight against HIV and AIDs, Mary Kum’bweza Banda, Chairperson of the Board of Commissioners for National AIDS Commission (NAC) said on Tuesday. While opening the 2012 annual review meeting of the national response for HIV and AIDS under the theme; “innovative HIV preventions- towards zero new infections” in Lilongwe, Banda […]
Traditional leaders in the Malawi’s central district of Ntcheu are being encouraged to take a leading role in encouraging women to give birth in the hospitals where they will have access to proper medical attention. The message is being delivered through series of meetings which Chief Kwataine who is also the Chairperson of the Presidential […]
Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) in Lilongwe will in January next year start offering Tele-medicine and Tele-consultations services. Pratamnu Majumder, Assistant Manager for Tixt pap Ticil , a company from India installing electronic network confirmed on Thursday saying, all required equipment have been installed in the key departments and that what remains is to connect the […]
Malawi-Liverpool-Welcome Trust (MLW) will embark on a new project which seeks to bringing artists and scientists together into dialogue about their research work where the communities will also been involved. Speaking to journalists on Thursday, at Malawi-Liverpool Welcome Trust offices in Blantyre, MWL Science Communication Officer Tamara Chipasula said that the project which is called Art […]
Ministry of Health has bowed down to pressure and accepted that they will return beds which were taken from Mponela Rural Hospital to Mzimba district. The Parliamentary Women’s Caucus and opposition parties demanded government to return the beds to Mponela. After Vice President Khumbo Kachali, who is also Minister of Health, visited the facility on […]
The National Association of Nurses in Malawi says it is embarking programmes aimed at improving the conduct of nurses in the country and reduce complaints against them in the hospitals thereby ensure patients’ welfare. National Association of Nurses in Malawi, Executive Director, Harriet Kapyepye said in an interview with Malawi News Agency (Mana) that they are […]
Malawi’s third biggest referral hospital, Mzuzu Central, is grappling with the burden of storing dead bodies in its mortuary following the over stay of eight bodies without claimants. The dead bodies, some of which have stayed in the hospital’s coldroom for over a month, have created shortage of space in the mortuary creating panic at […]
The President’s Safe Motherhood and Maternal Health Initiative has received a timely boost of a K15 million cash donation from Airtel Malawi Limited. The money donate don Wednesday is to be used for training of the country’s midwives for 18 months starting October 1st, 2012. Airtel Malawi Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Morris Newa, presented the […]
Schools that were closed in the southern Malawi district of Neno following the confirmation of an outbreak of chicken have opened for the term. The schools have gone on to open despite health authorities indicating that there are new cases of the pox that are being registered daily. Neno district hospital publicist Taonga Kasomekera said in an […]
A friend in need is a friend indeed, so the saying goes. The adage proved true to communities surrounding Lake Chirwa in Phalombe district when representatives from Pharmanova Malawi Limited donated MK250,000 worth of medical supplies and water guard to help ease the cholera problem facing the residents. Statistics from the district’s health office show […]
The Coalition of Women Living with HIV and AIDS (COWLHA) says lack of openness amongst married couples on issues of sexuality and satisfaction is fuelling the spread of HIV in the communities. The organization’s National Coordinator Annie Banda told Dowa District Executive Committee (DEC) when she introduced a nine month project aimed at reducing the […]
The Ministry of Health says it will begin the twelfth round of elephantiasis and river blindness (Onchocerciasis) drug distribution in October. Elephantiasis is a painful and profoundly disfiguring disease which is usually acquired in childhood with its visible manifestations occurring in adulthood which may lead to either temporary or permanent disability. Whereas river blindness is […]
With summer season at its prime, one of Malawi’s border districts, Mwanza, has been hit by chickenpox outbreak which according to health officials has already attacked 100 people. Chickenpox, according to various health journals Nyasa Times accessed, is a contagious viral infection in which a person develops extremely itchy blisters all over the body. It used to […]
Malawi Government says it wants 80 percent of sexually active men to undergo circumcision aimed at reducing the risk of contracting HIV and AIDS. Deputy Health Minister Halima Daudi said men aged between 15 and 49, should cut off their foreskins in clinics. She was speaking in Lilongwe during the official launch of a National […]
Japanese Toyota Tsusho Corporation on Monday donated a consignment of antibiotic drugs worth MK36 million to the Malawi government which was received by President Mrs. Joyce Banda at Sanjika Palace in Blantyre. Receiving the donation, President Banda said the drugs would help improve lives of children and women through infection prevention which she reiterated was […]
Government has assured members of the general public that it has intensified the drug monitoring system in order to seal all the loopholes which have been giving opportunity to some individuals to steal government drugs. Public Relations Officer for the Ministry of Health, Henry Chimbali said the Ministry has worked out ways of ensuring that […]
Government through the Ministry of Health has praised the country’s private health care provider, Banja La Mtsogolo (BLM) for making family planning easily accessible to Malawians in both urban and rural areas. This was said at Nkhalango private clinic in Likuni, Lilongwe where BLM launched its central region Bluestar Healthcare Network, an initiative that provides […]
Malawi Health Equity Network has said poverty is forcing many women in the country to fail to adopt family planning methods as they are compelled to seek consent from their husbands who sometimes are against the idea. The Director of Malawi Health Equity Network, Martha Kwataine said in an interview that it is difficult for […]