Health
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Tracking antibiotic-resistant germs
In Malawi’s overwhelmed hospitals, doctors are worried about growing resistance to antibiotics, the drugs used to treat deadly bacterial diseases…
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Plight of defiled girls
Martha lived happily with her stepfather after her widowed mother remarried. She never imagined that her new home would be…
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No sex, no job
This story was supported by the Pulitzer Centre Linda*, a former tea estate labourer in Malawi, had a typical rags-to-riches…
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Fighting sexual gender-based violence with community fund
Violent Thauzeni, 24, from Ntchisi District is too traumatised to open up about her oppressive marital life. While performing some…
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Water improves health care
Grey Betha, a midwife technician at Osiyana Health Centre in Nsanje, knows how difficult it is to work in a…
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Racing to save women, babies
Patricia Chimangeni is not an athlete, but she run 10 kilometres in Greater Manchester, UK, to raise funds so no…
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Keeping vaccines chilled
Sights of blue cold boxes decked by the doorstep welcome you to the district vaccine store at Lilongwe District Health…
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What keeps Covid jabs cool?
Florence Kamwendo became a community health worker in 1994, two years after Malawi wiped out polio by vaccinating every child…
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Displaced children face malnutrition
March 10 was an extraordinary day for Dona Peter, who was six-month pregnant when she fled severe floods caused by…
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Border community adopts Covid jab
The global spread of Covid-19 illustrates how contagious infections can cross borders at the speed people and goods move. The…
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Drones map mosquito breeding grounds
Using an innovative, 21st-century way to destroy a centuries-old problem, scientists at the Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust use drones to…
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Teen pregnancy in the face of disaster
Tropical Storm Ana that wreaked havoc in the Southern Region of Malawi displaced 5 313 women exposing them to a…
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Preserving every drop of polio shots
As community health workers hop house to house to vaccinate children against polio, Unicef Malawi communication officer RODGERS SIULA follows…
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Gesd bridges maternal health gaps
Ten month ago, Loyce Shaba perilously delivered a baby boy at home with the help of unskilled neighbours. The 33-year-old…
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Restoring displaced women’s dignity
Tropical Storm Ana that displaced thousands in southern Africa forced Roselina Lupenga, 18, to flee to a congested emergency evacuation…
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Malawi ready for cholera vaccination
Malawi has received 1.9 million doses of oral cholera vaccine from the Global Emergency Stockpile for the first round of…
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Shoe doctor wants every child vaccinated
Malawi’s first wild poliovirus case in 30 years has left health workers racing against time to vaccinate every child aged…
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Tuberculosis on the decline
clinician carries out TB testing at a health centre in Lilongwe Last Thursday was the World Tuberculosis (TB) Day set…
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Resillient toilets, healthy lives
Zomba Banda of Fayiti Village in Ntcheu District stopped constructing latrines every year as they collapsed in no time. “I…
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Nurse helps women give birth using phone light
On January 24, Cyclone Ana left Nchalo Health Centre cut-off by a flood that disrupted electricity and water supply across…
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