Ecobank has donated K30 million to Presidential Initiative on Safe Motherhood as part of the company’s corporate social responsibility to help construct a maternity wing at Lungwenya Health Centre in the area of Sub Traditional Authority Namavi in Mangochi. State House Press Officer Brian Banda speaking in a telephone interview from Mangochi said Ecobank donated […]
Presidential Initiative on Safe Motherhood and Maternal Health chairperson Senior Chief Kwataine returned from a week-long visit to the United States of America where he attended a star-studded conference focusing on women across the globe, featuring appearances by celebrity Oprah Winfrey, actress Meryl Streep and US former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton. Kwataine also had an opportunity […]
Presidential Initiative on Safe Motherhood and Maternal Health chairperson Senior Chief Kwataine has been invited by the Newsweek Daily Beast a popular media group in the United States of America to attend to Women in the World Conference at Lincoln Centre, New York City from April 4 to 5. The summits theme is “Women in the World Stories […]
Opposition Member of Parliament for Karonga South, Chembe Glad Munthali on Tuesday asked government to consider health of men rather than concentrating on maternal health only. The MP said President Joyce Banda has from the time she assumed the presidency emphasized on the need to care for pregnant mothers who she said should not die […]
The UK based Institute for International Health and Development (IIHD) at Queen Margaret University will embark on a 12 months research project in Malawi to examine how attitudes to loss in childbearing might be affecting maternal health care. The University observed that delays in seeking and receiving care are not fully explained by practical issues […]
President Joyce Banda’s commitment towards the promotion of safe motherhood initiative to protect pregnant women and maternal health in the country is evidently facing serious hitches. Since taking over office last April, President Banda has reaffirmed her administration’s commitment towards ensuring that most health facilities have maternity clinics to promote maternal health. But health service […]
Mary Robinson, Chairperson of Global Leaders Council for Reproductive Health (GLC) and former President of Ireland, Vaira Vike-Freiberga former Latvian Presiden and Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka former Vice President of the Republic of South Africa, both members of GLC, left Malawi on Friday impressed by strides made by the Joyce Banda administration to curb high maternal mortality […]
Former president of Ireland Mary Robinson,has said that Malawi is a blessed country to have Mrs Joyce Banda as its President,saying she is going to steer the nation into prosperity. Robinson, the first female president of Ireland from 1990 to1997, was speaking during a special dinner her organization – the Global Leaders Council (GLC) – organized in the administrative […]
Increasing population and high fertility rate remain development challenges for Malawi and as such the country needs to move its successes to scale in order to address these challenges. President Mrs. Joyce Banda made the remarks Wednesday at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe after the Presidential consultation on Initiative on Maternal Health and Safe Motherhood. The […]
Chairperson for Global Leaders Council (GLC) for Reproductive Health who is also former president of Ireland Dr. Mary Robinson has expressed satisfaction on Malawi’s effort in the area of maternal health and safe motherhood. Malawi on Tuesday welcomed high-level members of the GLC to Lilongwe who have come to tsupport President Joyce Banda’s Initiative on […]
When she officially laid a foundation stone for a Maternity Waiting Home at Domasi Rural Hospital on New Year’s Day, President Joyce Banda promised the construction of a new Zomba District Hospital “as soon as February or March” this year. “I am aware of the immense problems that people in Zomba face to access medical […]
Women and children in Malawi suffer disproportionately from higher disease burden than other population groups, leading to high maternal, neonatal and child mortality, President Joyce Banda has said. Speaking when she officially laid a foundation stone for a Maternity Clinic at Billy Riordan Clinic at Cape Maclear, Mangochi District on Sunday, President Banda said, however, […]
President Joyce Banda Sunday reaffirmed its commitment to the promotion of safe motherhood initiative in a bid to protect pregnant women and promote maternal health in the country. President Banda was speaking at Chembe community ground in the area of traditional authority Nankumba in Mangochi after laying a foundation stone for the construction of a […]
Mrs Martha Kachali, wife to the Vice President Khumbo Kachali has encouraged women across the country to seek professional medical services whenever they are expectant. She was speaking after cheering 110 expectant mothers and newly born babies at Mzimba district hospital. The Vice Presidents wife said it was only through access to professional medical services […]
About 60 percent of Nsanje inhabitants continue shunning the use of family planning services despite encountering several problems that result from overpopulation. Community Based Service Manager for Family Planning (FPAM), Ruth Khudeche said on Thursday only 40 percent of women in the district use family planning methods regardless of their high fertility rate. “Fertility rate […]
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will give more support to Malawi’s initiative to reduce maternal mortality, Melinda Gates said on Wednesday in the capital Lilongwe after meeting President Joyce Banda. Gates, the co-founder and co-chairperson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, told journalists after meeting President Banda in her second visit to the […]
Melinda French Gates of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pays a daylong visit to Malawi on Wednesday where, among others, she will hold talks with President Joyce Banda regarding women’s health, particularly on maternal health and safe motherhood. She will also visit yet to be named maternity facility in the capital Lilongwe; hold talks […]
The Canyon Model of Compliance and Enforcement There was once a District Commissioner (DC) for Fort Manning, now Mchinji, known as Bwana Canyon. This DC had a reputation for stopping funeral processions whenever he came across one so he could inquire about the gender of the deceased. If the deceased happened to be male, the […]