Umodzi Youth Organisation has embarked on HIV and Aids sensitization campaign in Blantyre Kabula constituency to divert the youth from promiscuous behaviour to prevent contracting HIV. The campaign started with an open day at Mbayani Maternal Clinic recently. Umodzi Youth Organisation programme director Munyaradzi Moffat said the youth in the constituency are at high risk […]
Malawi government has finally procured viral vaccines to treat foot and mouth disease that has hit the lower shire particularly Chikhwawa district. The outbreak was reported in the area late September this year and put lives of over 70,000 cattle are at great risk of contracting the disease. Principal Secretary for Agriculture in the Ministry […]
Ticheze a Malawi, TaM central region chapter over the weekend cleaned the premises and donated soap to male and female TB patients at Bwaila Hospital in Lilongwe. TaM, which has a nation-wide membership of over 100 members, is a socializing and charitable grouping with various outreach programs. TB ward Senior nurse and midwife Flora Kathyola […]
The Livingstonia Synod AIDS Programme (Lisap) has launched the Mobile Interactions bringing Hope (MI Hope) programme to improve the quality of life of people living with HIV and AIDS. In Africa the MI Hope programme is running in Zambia, South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria. Twenty nine million users in South Africa are using the programme. […]
Parents to the late seven-year-old Etienne Nkwanda have bitterly complained against alleged clinical negligence by Malawi’s largest private hospital, Mwaiwathu Hospital medical personnel in Blantyre that they suspect must have led to the death of the young boy. In a letter dated August 24, 2011, addressed to the hospital and copied to Malawi Blood Transfusion, […]
Religious women rank high on the list of women who opt for unsafe abortions in Malawi, a Ministry of Health report says. According to The Weekend Times the report is as a result of a research, the first of its kind in Malawi, which was carried out in 2009 in conjunction with UNFPA but was […]
Malawi nurses at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) in Lilongwe are complaining of working under less than suitable conditions saying they live in “substandard houses in shanty” townships and have petitioned government to give them decent accommodation. The petition has been signed by 51 nurses who also ask to be allocated at institutional houses close to […]
AIDS-ravaged Malawi has 383,000 people on free anti-retrovirals (ARVs), up from 5,000 when the programme started seven years ago, health authorities said Wednesday. “I am pleased to report that 74,000 new patients were put on anti-retroviral therapy putting the number of patients ever started on ART at 383,000,” Thomas Bisika, director of the National AIDS […]
The concerns of deteriorating hygienic conditions that engulfed Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) following days without water a couple of days ago have now vanished as water supply has been fully restored at Malawi’s biggest referral hospital. A spot check conducted by Nyasa Times revealed that sanitation problems no longer exists and that toilets are […]
About 20 children from Malawi suffering from congenital heart diseases will get free treatment in India, thanks to the Rotary Club of Chandigarh. The Hindu reported that the first batch of four such children has arrived in India. According to the Rotary club the offer to provide free treatment was made in April this year, […]
For one retired midwife, seeing too many mothers die during childbirth led her to quit her job and take on the third highest infant mortality rates in the world. She could be considered Malawi’s own Florence Nightingale. Using the most basic equipment, Charity Salina has single handedly delivered more than 4,000 babies and recorded no […]
While Malawi’s President Bingu wa Mutharika brags about “eradicating” HIV/Aids pandemic in Malawi”, foreigners especially Tanzanians have taken advantage of the country’s lack of national Identification cards and lax laws to access anti-retroviral treatment (ARV) drugs at government health establishments, Nyasa Times can reveal. The revelations are contained in a report that highlights issues and […]
The students of the Malawi Institute of Journalism [MIJ], Lilongwe campus on Saturday cheered the sick in the maternity and children wards at Maganga clinic in Salima district. The students led by their leader Patrick Botha also swept and cleaned the area surrounding the ward. Speaking during presentation of the items, Botha said: “We all know […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika on Thursday claimed he has done great things in the country during his seven years in power including “eradicating HIV/Aids”, saying his government and ruling DPP is getting more popular. Mutharika said in a speech in Blantyre, the commercial capital, that civil society leaders were derailing his development programmes by […]
Malawi’s health workers are good gossipers and this is derailing efforts to curb HIV and AIDS related stigma and discrimination, Nyasa Times has learnt. The development has made people either to default on treatment or seek treatment in other districts or regions, according to medical experts. “Even before one reaches home, news of one’s sero […]
By Felie Mzumara, Nyasa Times A sigh of relief has returned to 12 Malawians and their family members who had lost hope of survival after they were bitten by a rabid dog. The eight people all from the area of Chief Chilowamatambe in central district of Kasungu were beaten last week Friday but failed to […]
By Arkangel Tembo, Panos When 16- year old Tendai (not her real name), from Chinkhota Village, Traditional Authority Simphasi in Mchinji district got pregnant, she sought the assistance of a herbalist from a nearby village to terminate the pregnancy. The Standard 8 pupil sneaked out of her home in the company of three closest friends […]
HIV-positive civil servants in Malawi are unhappy with the government’s announcement that it would stop providing a cash grant to help improve their diet. In June, the government said the scheme would be stopped and replaced with food packages. According to Mary Shawa, principal secretary in the office of the President and Cabinet responsible for […]