Pressure is mounting on Malawian authorities to end a bitter standoff threatening the country’s next Global Fund windfall, as a growing coalition of faith leaders and rights groups warn that thousands of lives could be at stake if the impasse drags on any longer. The Malawi Network of Religious Leaders Living with or Personally Affected […]
National Bank of Malawi (NBM) plc has handed over a newly constructed solar-powered water reticulation system to Mikate Health Post in Thyolo, aimed to improve healthcare service delivery. The donation forms part of the bank’s district council’s K200 million Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative supporting various development initiatives across the country. Speaking during the handover […]
Malawi has officially introduced a new twice-yearly injectable HIV prevention drug, marking what health officials describe as a significant milestone in the country’s effort to end AIDS as a public health threat. The drug, Lenacapavir, was launched at Area 25 Community Hospital in Lilongwe on Thursday. It joins oral PrEP and a two-monthly injectable alternative, […]
Malawi will introduce Lenacapavir (LEN) — a twice‑yearly injectable HIV prevention option — on 1 July, marking what health officials describe as a major step in the country’s efforts to cut new infections. The Ministry of Health and Sanitation says LEN will expand the HIV prevention toolkit already in use, building on oral PrEP introduced […]
Chipembere Community Development Organization (CCDO) executive director, Dalitso Chiwayula said accessing HIV-Testing through home-based health services delivery could help reduce client exposure to Coronavirus. Chiwayula was speaking during a community mobile HIV-Testing exercise, which Bvumbwe Health facility is carrying at Sub Traditional Authority Maggie, Thyolo district starting from Monday. “We have currently adopted an innovative […]
World Vision will partner the Malawi government’s Ministry of Health to implement interventions to fight Malaria, Tuberculosis (TB) and HIV/AIDS across the country. The grants, given by Global Fund, will be rolled out from January 2021 and run to 2024. Presiding over the launch of the grants at Bingu International Conference Centre (BICC) in Lilongwe, […]
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, ignited by the outbreak of the novel Coronaviirus, the national response to the HIV and AIDS epidemic in Malawi appeared to be on the edge due to uncertainties that followed the lockdown approach as practised by initial countries that faced the pandemic. The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 […]
Malawi on Tuesday commemorated World Aids Day with President Lazarus Chakwera stressing his government’s commitment in the fight against HIV and Aids by staying the course to achieve zero infection rate by 2030 amidst Coronavirus (Covid-19). The World Aids Day and International Candlelight Memorial event was held at Mitundu Primary School Ground in the area […]
Malawi is registering 33,000 new HIV and Aids infections annually, a development that threatens the country’s aspiration to achieve the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) 95:95:95 targets set for the year 2025. Fourteen countries have achieved the 90–90–90 HIV treatment targets (90% of people living with HIV know their HIV status, […]
M’mbelwa District Council has asked players in sexual and reproductive health rights programs in the district to promote use of female condoms regardless of low uptake of the product. Principal Nutrition and HIV and AIDS Officer (PNAO) for M’mbelwa District Council, Frank Mfune was speaking Monday when he addressed the district’s Aids Coordinating Committee. Mfune […]
Centre for the Development of People (Cedep) and Action Hope Malawi have asked members of parliament to push for legislations that she the divisive “vices against nature” that work against interest of sexual minority groups such as criminalising homosexuality. The two organisations want discrimination against people on the basis of sexual orientation. “Criminalisation of same […]
Chikwawa Diocese of the catholic Church, through its Social Services Directorate, has launched an HIV project to prevent new infections among children in the district. The project is also expected to reduce vulnerability among orphans and vulnerable children as well as adolescent girls and young women. In an interview, project assistant manager Lewis Msiyadungu said […]
Informal gold mining in Kasungu is putting lives of people at risk over coronavirus and HIV/Aids. According to a citizen journalist Sapulain Chitonde, people scramble for pieces of gold traces in the mud of a river in an area called Gogodi. He says women and men spend hours away from their homes in search of the […]
The Government of United States of America (USA) has reaffirmed its commitment to providing technical and financial support towards Malawi’s fight against HIV and Aids. The USA Deputy Chief of Mission, Jeremy Neitzke, was speaking in Lilongwe on Tuesday during the launch of the Malawi Population-based HIV Impact Assessment (MPHIA II 2020). The Government of […]
Malawi has beaten the United Nations Programme on HIV and Aids (UNAids) global HIV targets, a development that has given hope to the players that the country could be on the right path towards eradicating the epidemic by 2030. The global HIV targets seek the countries’ commitment to ensure that 90 percent of people living […]
Nkhata Bay acting nutrition HIV and Aids officer Joshua Nyirenda has expressed concern over the increasing number of anti-retroviral therapy (ARV) defaulters in the district. He said this on Friday at Chihame II Ground in group village head Mchingalombo in Traditional Authority Kabunduli during the commemoration of the district’s World Aids Day under the theme […]
The fight against HIV, tuberculosis and malaria received a major boost this week when Global Fund announced a K381 billion allocation to Malawi. The amount totaling $512 939 077 will support the country’s HIV, tuberculosis and malaria Malawi Building Resilient and Sustainable Systems for Health (RSSH) programme. Greater access to medicine, backed by cash from […]
Malawi Network of Religious Leaders Living or Personally Affected by HIV and Aids (Manerela+) has called upon the law enforcers to take action against people who abuse people who are living positively. This comes amid increased cases of stigma and discrimination against HIV infected persons especially those that are members of the Key Population [Commercial Sex […]