Youths in group village head Saopa in Chikwawa have bemoaned long distances as one of the factors preventing them from accessing sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services. The youth raised the concern during a dialogue meeting organised by Centre for Alternatives for Victimised Women and Children (Cavwoc) in Nchalo on Wednesday. Chairperson of Saopa Youth […]
National Youth Council of Malawi(NYCOM), Youth Network counseling (YONECO) and Malawi Girl Guide Association (MAGA) have sponsored five youth leaders to attend a sexual reproductive health conference in Zambia. NYCOM Communications Officer, Kate Kujaliwa said in an interview Wednesday the five youth leaders would accompany other ten youth leaders from the country sponsored by organizers […]
Hope for Relief (HFR), a Rumphi-based non-governmental organization, is implementing a project whose chief aim is an attempt to increase access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) services among inmates in the country’s prisons. HFR programmes manager, Hastings Masida Ziba, told Nyasa Times on Tuesday that, among others, the project, which is being funded by HIVOS of the Netherlands, […]
The reigning Miss Malawi beauty queen Tionge Munthali is now the official face of Banja La Mstogolo (BLM) in fighting to increase the access of contraceptives to the youth as she is the champion of sexual reproductive health and youth rights. The beauty queen, a student at University of Assemblies of God in Lilongwe, moderated […]
Youth Activists Initiative Organization (YAIO) on Friday launched a sexual reproductive health project aimed at empowering young people in Blantyre City with information and skills on HIV/AIDS and sexual reproductive health. The project called Information about Sexual and Reproductive Health (Lesson for Life), also tackles issues of human rights, governance, education, career guidance and conflict management. […]
The United Kingdom (UK) Department for International Development’s (DFID) has announced a £50.1 million (about K47.5 billion) six year family planning programmes in Malawi under the ‘Tsogolo Langa’ [My future] programme. A statement issued by DfID made available to Nyasa Times says the family planning services was announced by Minister for Africa Harriett Baldwin. […]
Girls Empowerment Network (Genet) has urged the youth in Dowa District to seek sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services and information to improve their sexual health. Genet project officer Naomi Nkhonjera said this during a sensitisation campaign under its project called Improving Girls’ Access to SRH Services and Information which started in 2017 and is […]
Dowa District Health Officer (DHO) Dr. Peter Makoza says the capacity building in Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) by GENET will help health workers to effectively implement SRH related work, including the implementation of the National Youth Friendly Health Services Strategy (YFHSS). Makoza made the remarks at the end of the five-day training on SRH recently […]
Improved Midwifery Care Access Initiative (IMCAI), whose goal is to increase access to quality sexual reproductive health services and rights to the local community to help reduce maternal and neonatal deaths, has organised a women’s sexual and reproductive health to be held University of Malawi constituent college, The Polytechnic. The conference, which is in collaboration […]
Dedza District Hospital, the referral hospital for Dedza, has run of sexually transmitted diseases drugs. Spokesperson for Dedza District Hospital Mwai Liabunya confirmed theh ospital run out of STI stock for two months now. A source at the hospital said the situation at the hospital is very bad. “Patients with STI are told to buy […]
Pact Malawi has recognized various partners it has been supporting with capacity development in the N’zatonse project, a sexual reproductive and health rights (SRHR) project. The partners were recognized during a Community of Practice workshop held in Lilongwe recently. Pact Malawi and its partners gathered to take stock of progress they have made in the […]
International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has said adolescents and other migrant communities lack access to sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) services globally. Head of IOM Malawi Mpilo Nkomo said this during a meeting with two parliamentary committee members for Health and Population and HIV and Aids at Crossroads Hotel in Lilongwe. He said the […]
Mzuzu Youth Association (MYA) has expressed concern over the lack of special rooms for young people in the country’s hospitals, a thing which deters many from accessing Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) services. MYA Secretary Harris Kanyeremuka said lack of special rooms for HIV and STIs testing for young people in the hospitals has resulted in […]
Parliamentary Caucus on Population and Development has been challenged to view lack of access to sexual reproductive health services and comprehensive sexuality education as a key barrier to the youths. Youth Action Movement (YAM), President, Priscillar Kafa made the challenge Thursday in Lilongwe when YAM presented a communiqué on ending Child Marriages in Malawi to […]
Issues about gender equality, sexual and reproductive health (SRH), services and comprehensive sexuality education must be given special attention by the international community to ensure the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, Bermudian Governor John Rankin has said. The Governor of Bermuda, who is the representative of the British monarch in the […]
Monkey–Bay Community Hospital in Mangochi has received a certificate of excellence in reproductive health upon registering no single case of maternal death over the past two years. For achieving the feat, the hospital received a solar panel facility and delivery kits. Speaking on Tuesday at the hospital after presentation of the certificate of recognition, Minister […]
Students at Bandawe Girls Secondary School in Nkhata Bay this week underwent a series of talks on moral and reproductive health organised by the Association of Malawian Midwives (Amami) Mzuzu University (Mzuni) chapter. President of the Mzuni Chapter, Charles Amos, told Nyasa Times in an interview that the initiative was aimed at imparting knowledge of moral and reproductive health […]
Men’s participation in reproductive health education can reduce to a considerable extent deaths caused by pregnancy and childbirth complications, gender and human rights actives have said. Presentations made by the activists in the Capital Lilongwe at a Population Reference Bureau (PRB) three-day journalist’s workshop funded by United States Agency for International Development (USAID), have indicated […]