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 […]
Member of Parliament (MP) for Neno North, Thoko Tembo, has joined forces with Parent and Child Health Initiative (PACHI) in addressing gaps in malaria fight and provision of primary healthcare in Neno district. PACHI, a local non-governmental organization working to improve the delivery of maternal and neonatal healthcare services in Malawi, is implementing an ambitious […]
The Parent and Child Health Initiative (PACHI) has embarked on an ambitious project aimed to address gaps in malaria fight and provision of primary healthcare in Neno district. PACHI is a local non-governmental organization working to improve the delivery of maternal and neonatal healthcare services in Malawi. The organization’s project officer, Russel Msiska, told Nyasa […]
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, […]
Malaria Control Programme Manager, Dr. Michael Kayange has said Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) is an effective way of Malaria control if properly done. The official said this on Saturday at the end of a seven day trainer of trainer’s workshop in Mangochi in which Site Managers, Sprayer Operator Supervisors and Cluster Supervisors were drawn to […]
Reports that antimalarial drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine could be used to prevent and cure the coronavirus (Covid-19) have received a caution from medical experts. Malawi, as many other countries globally, continues to experience a surge in Covid-19 cases and deaths with the current statisc showing the country has registered 3 858 cases of coronavirus, 107 […]
Mangochi has registered a 66 percent drop in malaria incidence over the past five months, thanks to the implementation of an in-door residual spraying (IRS) project in the district. World Vision Malawi is implementing the IRS project with a grant from the Global Fund through the Ministry of Health and Population. The objective of the […]
Malaria Vaccine Implementation Programme (MVIP) to give partial protection to children which was rolled out in 11 districts in April this year has started bearing fruits. A senior Health Surveillance Assistants (HSA) from three selected health facilities in three districts in Malawi, interviewed, have confirmed jointly that since the rolling out of the Malaria vaccine […]
A senior government official has said malaria kills eight people every day in Malawi which translates into 3,000 deaths every year. Principal secretary in the ministry of Health and Population Dan Namarika said the last year alone, six million people were down with malaria negatively affecting economic and social lives of people. Namarika said this […]
Malawi commemorated World Malaria Day in Mchinji on Friday with a call from government and development partners on the need for everyone to take an active part in the fight against malaria. Speaking during the commemoration function held at Magawa in Mchinji, Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Population, Dr Dan Namarika said […]
Malawi has become the first country in the world to roll out a K1 billion landmark large-scale pilot of the first malaria vaccine to give partial protection against the disease, giving hope that deaths due to the killer disease will be drastically cut. The World Health Organization says Malawi is the first of three countries chosen […]
Malawi government says a vaccine against malaria could be a vital new tool in the fight against the debilitating illness as the Ministry of Health starts immunising children in the world’s first large-scale pilot of RTS, S — the candidate vaccine that is furthest along in development —from April 23 2019. Head of case management […]
Children under five years will this month start receiving malaria vaccine in Mangochi under the pilot Malaria Vaccine Implementation Programme (MVIP) by the district health office and College of Medicine. Mangochi Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) coordinator Francis Mwanoka said this on Friday when he presented the programme to the district executive committee (DEC). He […]
In its first phase in the campaign to fight malaria, World Vision Malawi has distributed 8.2 million mosquito nets in the distribution of long lasting insecticidal nets (LLIN) in the country’s 28 districts. World Vision’s chief of party Alexander Chikonga says the exercise was successful and is now rolling out into its last phase. The […]
World Vision Malawi charity organization has distributed 2.5 million mosquito nets in the Southern Region in its phase one of a campaign of to give out Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets in the country’s 28 districts to fight malaria. The campaign is in line with the Global Fund financing arrangement for the 2018-2020 grants for National […]
Vice President Salous Chilima declared United Transformation Movement (UTM) will not be shaken by acts of violence and intimidation being employed by the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to frustrate the movement’s agenda, saying the will of God and the people of Malawi will be the force that will propel him to election victory against […]
Panos Institute Southern Africa (PISA) has appealed to all partners working in the health sector in Malawi to step-up the momentum in the fight to eradicate malaria which is one of the country’s top public health problems. The partners include health service providers, civil society organizations (CSOs) and communities. Panos made the appeal following the […]
The 2017 Malaria Indicator Survey Report has indicated that the country is making strides in the fight against malaria registering a decline of malaria cases in children as well as an increase in the uptake in the usage of Insecticides-Treated Nets (ITNs). A press statement issued on Wednesday signed by Secretary for Health and Population, […]