Health
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Supporting pneumonia treatment
Physician Dingase Dula recalls the days when treating pneumonia at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) in Blantyre used to be…
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Aiding breast cancer fight
Many breast cancer patients in Malawi suffer in silence, seek treatment unrelated to the disease and die from the curable…
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Covid tests Nairobi promise
The coronavirus pandemic offers a litmus test for Malawi’s resolve to put sexual and reproductive health (SRH) at the centre…
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Malawi must lock down
Bhatupe Mhango-Chipanta Aids Activist I have lived openly with HIV for 17 years. Here is what I know about viral…
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Sewing masks to fight Covid
Rabson Kondowe For D+C Magazine As the coronavirus continues to wreak havoc, there is a massive global shortage of face…
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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,…
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Chilling side of vaccines
Long walks to get children vaccinated call for reliable energy and cooling for rural health centres, JAMES CHAVULA writes. In…
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Mothers unite for vaccines
A simple vaccine can prevent a child from contracting polio and a host of other deadly diseases, but some children…
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‘Vaccines aren’t sins’
A landless woman has gone against stiff religious resistance to vaccines and medicines to save children, our Staff Writer JAMES…
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Building a healthy Malawi
Due to poverty and other factors, most families in both urban or rural areas still strive to have good and…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Coughs, urine…and stools
New findings show the search for effective TB screening is leaving nothing to chance, our Staff Writer JAMES CHAVULA writes.…
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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…
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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.…
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