Global health regulators, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has made an emphatic assurance that the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine that Malawi has chosen is very safe for use. Speaking in Lilongwe during the Covid-19 update briefing, WHO country representative, Nonhlanhla Rosemary Dlamini, said Malawi should not be worried with the study that was done in South […]
Human activities across the globe have significantly scaled down due to Coronavirus(Covid-19) pandemic. Nations have instituted lockdowns disrupting daily routines of many. From December 2019, the virus that causes Covid-19 disease, SARS-COV-2, has quickly spread from Wuhan in China, to many countries across the world prompting the World Health Organisation (WHO) to declare it a […]
Malawians have given mixed reactions on the World Health Organisation’s and Centre for Disease Control backing of the coronavirus cases figures in the country. Some Malawians said the 33 figure of the coronavirus cases in the country was cooked up by the government to scare people so that the Constitutional Court sanctioned presidential election should […]
Minister of Health Jappie Mhango has said Malawi which has so far confirmed 33 cases of COVID-19 and three deaths is recording a jump in the spread of the virus pandemic. Mhango said on Thursday that although those figures are still relatively small in the global picture, the sharp increase in cases is a cause […]
At the 17th World Conference on Tobacco Control held in Cape Town, South Africa, tobacco control experts continue to pile pressure on all countries, including Malawi to take stronger action in protecting public health by ratifying the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). Emma Wanyonyi, Director at the Kenyan based, International […]
The Ministry of Health has said there is no need to panic over reports of Yellow Fever outbreak, saying the risk of infection in Malawi is minimal but government will increase its surveillance in the borders by screening travellers coming from or on transit through Yellow fever-risk countries. There is no specific treatment for the […]
Minister of Health, Dr Peter Kumpalume has said Malawi has managed to meet World Health Organization (WHO) standards on reducing child mortality rate. Kumpalume disclosed this in Lilongwe during a dissemination workshop on Muuni wa Uchembere Wambino, an initiative on sexual and reproductive health by Care Malawi. “We started taking closer interest in maternal death […]
Vice President, Dr Saulos Chilima Tuesday said the country needed to address inefficiency and wastage of public resources to achieve Universal Health Coverage. Speaking during the official opening of the day long Health Reform Stakeholders Forum in Lilongwe, Chilima said inefficiency in the public sector remains the core goal of the public sector reform programme. […]
World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Africa is intensifying country support to prevent cholera from reaching internally displaced person (IDP) camps along the border of Malawi and Mozambique. Since January 2015, extensive flooding has caused 230 000 IDPs to live in opportune refugee camps and temporary shelters. As of 2 March 2015, 55 cases of […]
Malawi government has said there is a need of about K280 million to fully prepare for any Ebola outbreak in the country. Head of the Public Health Institute Dr. Augustine Nthambala and his deputy Dr Matthews Kagoli disclosed that the Ministry of Health will require about K280 million to establish isolation facilities in the designated […]
Malawi’s Vice President, Khumbo Kachali, Monday launched the rotavirus vaccine, which will protect children under five from severe diaorhea. The event took place at Ntchisi Community ground. Speaking at the function, the vice president while observing that dioarrhea is a serious complexity and killer disease among young children in the country, he asked parents and […]