Malawi President Joyce Banda has emphasized the need to educate the girl child if the fight against maternal death is to be won. The President was speaking on Wednesday at her official residence in Lilongwe during an audience that she had with the national Chiefs steering committee on Presidential initiative on maternal health and safe […]
Employees at one of Malawi’s major referral hospitals, Kamuzu Central, have threatened to go an indefinite strike if authorities do not consider their demand for an increment on allowances. The workers want an increment on allowances which they receive when they work during off-days which is popularly known as “locum”. Some workers told Nyasa Times […]
Muslim women in Malawi have been urged to be vigilant in fighting HIV/AIDS to contain the spread of the pandemic, which has adversely affected the Muslim community at large. Marriam Ali Khan, Coordinator for Mai Aisha Sisters Youth AIDS Programme (MASYAP) at Mpingwe Mosque said this recently in Blantyre at a ‘monthly meeting’ (May) for […]
Malawi’s Vice President Khumbo Kachali has expressed worry with the high number of children-at an average six-that Malawian families have saying this is straining on the country’s resources. Speaking during the opening of the National Leaders’ Conference on Family Planning, Population and Development in Lilongwe, Kachali said the country’s fertility rate at 5.7 children per […]
Newly appointed National Coordinator for Safe Motherhood in the Office of the President , Dorothy Ngoma says is expecting to enjoy full benefits and monthly remuneration in her new post. President Joyce Banda appointed well-known rights activist Ngoma to replace former first lady Callista Mutharika for the post which she had occupied the position for two years. […]
Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have started conducting a research to measure effectiveness of HIV self-testing with possibilities of implementing the initiative in the country. The two institutions are working in partnership with College of Medicine and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine on the study, which has already rolled out […]
President Joyce Banda has finally fired former first lady Callista Mutharika from her position of national coordinator of the Safe Motherhood Initiative and replaced her with Dorothy Ngoma, executive director of the National Organisation of Nurses and Midwives (NOMN). The firing of Callista and hiring of Ngoma were announced on Wednesday evening by the Office […]
The United States government has commended Malawi for its work in carrying out Family planning services. USAID Malawi Director Doug Arbuckle said at the opening of a two day national leaders conference currently underway at the Cross Roads Hotel in Lilongwe. In his speech, Arbuckle said: “to slow population growth, Malawi has demonstrated its commitment […]
The Breastfeeding, Antiretroviral, and Nutrition (BAN) study which was conducted in Malawi between 2004 and 2010 has revealed that breastfeeding for a longer period along with antiretroviral therapy (ART) could help reduce mother-to-child HIV transmission and improve chances of infant’s survival. However, stopping breastfeeding before six months doesn’t protect these children from HIV infection and […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda, who rose to prominence as a relentless women’s rights advocate, has set up a Presidential Initative for maternal health and safemotherhood. Her Excellency Banda, who was dethroned as Malawi’s special ambassador on safemotherhood by late president Bingu wa Mutharika replacing her with his wife Callista Mutharika, made the announcement of the […]
Malawi’s late president, Bingu wa Mutharika’s funeral on Monday had seen condom sales in the city of Blantyre hit the roof suggesting that many people who travelled to the burial ceremony engaged themselves in extra-marital safe sexual escapades, Nyasa Times can exclusively report. According to reports reaching Nyasa Times condom sales rocketed sky-high in Blantyre […]
Many lives of Malawians, who are suffering from diabetes are posing a great danger, as many hospitals in the southern Africa country have no drugs on this chronic illnesses, this was revealed on Thursday during a round table discussion which was organized by Journalist Association against AIDS in Blantyre. The round table discussion which was […]
Malawi’s expert gynaecologists Grace Chiudzu and Phylos Bonongwe, who the President Joyce Banda directed that they should be given an authorization letter to immediately start full time work, finally got accreditation to start work at the Ethel Mutharika Wing Hospital in Lilongwe. Banda recently accused the late Bingu wa Mutharika government for delaying in hiring the […]
The review workshop on scorecard (Kalondolondo Project) has revealed that many Malawian women shun the use of female condoms. The workshop, which ended on Friday, April 14 at Sun and Sand Holiday Resort in Mangochi, was organized by Plan Malawi, Action Aid and Congoma with funding from DFID. Participants from different Non-Governmental Organizations, who were […]
A group of over 30 people from different Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO’s) have started a three day Scorecard ( Kalondolondo Project) review workshop at Sun and Sand Holiday Resort in the shores of Lake Malawi in Mangochi. The Review meeting has been organized by Plan Malawi, Action Aid and the Council for Non-Governmental Organizations in Malawi […]
Close to 700 hundred people die in childbirth every year in Malawi, many more lose their newborns due to poor health services and inadequate health personnel. Annually, nearly 6000 Malawi women are dying from preventable and treatable complications of pregnancy. In view of this, Malawi’s President Joyce Banda has directed the Ministry of Health to […]
Doctors who treated President Bingu wa Mutharika have revealed that although Mutharika was already dead by the time he arrived at the hospital, his chances to be resuscitated were narrowed by lack of an essential drug-Adrenaline-which is used to resuscitate people stricken by cardiac arrest. “When he arrived we realised we realized that the central […]
The persistent power failures in Malawi continue to cost lives in Malawi. According to press reports a 20-year old lady who was in the Intensive Care Unit-ICU-and later three other people died in the early hours of Tuesday a when the electricity distributor broke down and a backup generator ran out of fuel at the […]