Chief leads Covid fight
When Malawi first got to know about the coronavirus, Malawians did not expect the disease to find its way into...
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Bishops warn against coronavirus
As Covid-19, the coronavirus disease, continues to spread around the world and more countries in Africa are confirming positive cases,...
Chilling side of vaccines
Long walks to get children vaccinated call for reliable energy and cooling for rural health centres, JAMES CHAVULA writes. In...
Mothers unite for vaccines
A simple vaccine can prevent a child from contracting polio and a host of other deadly diseases, but some children...
‘Vaccines aren’t sins’
A landless woman has gone against stiff religious resistance to vaccines and medicines to save children, our Staff Writer JAMES...
Building a healthy Malawi
Due to poverty and other factors, most families in both urban or rural areas still strive to have good and...
Unscripted and unstoppable
Today is the International Day of the Girl Child. SHORAI NYAMBALO-NG’AMBI from Unicef Malawi shares a tale of a midwife...
Scramble for same old cake
With rapid population growth, Malawi is struggling to provide quality education, jobs, healthcare and other basics. According to the 2018...
Mental illness is no barrier
Blessings Chipeta wants you to know that it is exhausting to fight a war inside your head every day, but...
Taking reproductive health closer to flood survivors
The incessant rains experienced between March 5 and 10 this year in Chikwawa left scores of people in destitution. Statistics...
Media’s role on health crucial
The media has been challenged to give health governance issues prominence over political news if health service delivery is to...
Malawi behind in Universal Health Coverage
Malawi is still lagging behind in meeting some indicators for attaining Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2030. While the country...
Coughs, urine…and stools
New findings show the search for effective TB screening is leaving nothing to chance, our Staff Writer JAMES CHAVULA writes....
Neglecting prisoners in TB prevention
Kingston Namviluwa rues the evening he entered Chikwawa Prison. The 32-year-old from Traditional Authority (T/A) Mchilamwera in Thyolo, grew up...
Malawi’s paralysing health crisis
She woke up weak and dizzy. While in the bathroom, Chrissie’s arms grew numb. She collapsed. That was in 2016....
Risky childbirths of Ruarwe
Last December, Pamela Mphasi, 21, gave birth at home and named the baby Favour because she was born “luckily if...
Stressed by open defaecation
At 14, Mercy knows what the remote lakeside population appears not to worry about. “Even adults defaecate in the open,”...
Gains in mother to child HIV transmission
In 1999, Malawi was at a peak in the mother to child transmission (MTCT) of HIV. This coincided with the...
Judged, shunned, at risk
Sex workers want an end to discriminatory tendencies constraining access of healthcare services. JOHN CHIRWA writes. She does not want...
Let’s Talk: About Depression, about Nutrition
Today is World Health Day and the theme is Depression, a condition, which according to the World Health Organisation, affects...
