As Parliament is expected to meet from September 4 for budget session, White Ribbon Alliance has appealed for more funding towards the family planning sector in the country after noting that there was poor funding for in the initial 2020/21 national budget. In an exclusive interview from Lilongwe Executive Director, Hester Mkwinda Nyasulu said White […]
The United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DfID) under the Tsogolo Langa (My Future) programme on Monday officially handed over a consignment of family planning commodities, procured through UNFPA, to the Malawi Government. Tsogolo Langa is a £50 million six-year programme delivering sexual and reproductive health and family planning services to Malawians, especially young people. […]
Reproductive health rights of women in Malawi is under threat, as supply shortages for contraceptives has hit health facilities across the country as impact of cyclone Idai has disrupted planned delivery from hard-hit Mozambiqur port city of Beira. Ministry of Health and Population said in a published statement that contraceptives such as injectable (Depo-IM), Implanon […]
Archbishop Tarcizius Ziyaye of the Catholic Church’s Archdiocese of Lilongwe has encouraged the church’s faithful to use natural planning methods saying there are many benefits than using contraception or highly effective methods like sterilization, the pill, or the intrauterine device (IUD). Many Malawian women have of late been shunning natural familyplanning methods opting for pills a thing […]
Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development Goodall Gondwe has said “go forth and multiply” might be poor advice for parents who want to ensure their descendants’ economic success. Gondwe said in Lilongwe on Wednesday that Malawians need to “self-regulate to control having large families”. He pointed out that huge families affect population “and the more […]
A prominent traditional leader in the central region of Malawi has called on Malawians to take family planning with sheer seriousness and utter dedication in a bid to control overpopulation. Traditional Authority (T/A) Njombwa of Kasungu District has bemoaned high population boom which the country is experiencing. The charismatic Chief Njombwa speaking in Kasungu during […]
A high level Malawi delegation will from Tuesday, 11 July attend international family planning summit which seeks to accelerate progress on the commitment to increase modern contraceptive prevalence rate for all women thereby enabling 120 million additional women and girls to use contraceptives by 2020. The Summit comes five years after the 2012 London Summit […]
Former First Lady, Madam Callista Mutharika who is also Special Advisor to President Peter Mutharika on Safe Motherhood and HIV and Aids, has appealed to the youthful women in the country to consider family planning to manage population growth in the country in order to contribute positively in the development of the country. Speaking during the commemoration […]
Malawi government has termed soaring population growth as a threat to the health of many and urged birth-control measures as means of regulating family size. Minister of Health Dr Peter Kumpalume said Tuesday that all families in the country should embrace the tendency of using contraceptive as the population of Malawi stands at 16.8 million […]
Family planning officials in Mulanje are pointing fingers at Mozambican women for draining family planning method resources from the cash strapped Malawi government. Margaret Mchere, an official responsible for family planning methods at Mulanje District Hospital said there are 129944 child bearing women in Mulanje yet 139422 women are accessing the methods in the border […]
Recently Malawi President Professor Arthur Mutharika told the nation during a news conference that the country is “broke” which Bishop Kalemba said should be some cause for alarm and food for thought to every family on what responsibility to make over population matters. He called for more family planning to reduce poverty, slow population growth and ease […]
The First Lady Madam Gertrude Mutharika, on Friday committed to champion family planning initiatives in the country in a bid to reduce maternal and child mortality as well as HIV. Madam Mutharika made the commitment at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe when the Family Planning Association of Malawi (FPAM) conferred on her the responsibility of Patron […]
Population Services International (PSI), through their Youth Alert Initiative, will on Saturday provide free family planning services to women of reproductive age at Blantyre Youth Centre where they will hold a free Youth Alert End of Year Music Bash. The show will be spiced with live performances from Piksy, Skeffa Chimoto, Lulu, born Lawrence Kwisa and Diktator, […]
Malawian men have been advised to play an active role on issues of family planning if safe motherhood is to be achieved in the country, National Coordinator for Initiative on Safe Motherhood Chimwemwe Chipungu has said. Chipungu said this on Tuesday in Lilongwe during the opening of a maternity waiting home at Area 25 health […]
About 100 men underwent vasectomy out of 389,379 people who chose family planning method at Banja La Mtsogolo (BLM), 2013 data reveals. Latest data from the sexual and reproductive healthcare Organisation indicates that Malawi experiences low uptake of male vasectomy. The data attributed the low uptake to conservative beliefs that family planning is only for […]
Banja La Mtsogolo (BLM) has bemoaned the effect of conservative and religious beliefs that make sex-talk before marriage as a complete taboo, arguing such taboos will continue to hold back future generations. BLM has since pledged to offer free family planning to young people of the age of 24 in all its 31 clinics during […]
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded a $2,500,000 (about one billion Malawi Kwacha) three-year award to Adventist Health Services (AHS) to train health care workers and expand provision of family planning services in four districts. The project will be implemented from June 2014 through June 2017. The “Reaching out with contraceptive choice […]
Malawi’s reproductive health experts have raised concern over reluctance by men to embrace family planning methods in the wake of population boom, which is currently at around 15 million people. Malawi as a country adds about 400,000 people each year to its population with the nation’s use of modern contraceptive methods (family planning prevalence rate) […]