Health & Well-being

Kiwis like Malawi – survey

Shall we live here? Yeaaah, nah. New Zealanders are more non-committal about location than ever, according to a recent survey […]

Woman in Balaka nails son for stealing mk200

A police ku Balaka amanga mayi wina wa zaka 23, Beatrice Kalimanjolo, kamba kotenga msomali wa 4 inches ndikuwukhoma pa […]

Does Malawi need a local tour bus map?

Some years ago I visited Malawi Institute of Tourism in BT. I expected to find a school training tour guides, […]

Area 18 ‘nsinjiro’ saleswoman wins Airtel’s Toyota Hilux in the Bola Kunthazi promotion

It was a very memorable day for Mrs Febe Banda yesterday,when she officially received a Toyota Hilux in the Bola […]

SPEECH DELIVERED BY COMMISSIONER MRS ELVEY MTAFU DURING THE OPENING OF BRIDGE COURSE FOR MEDIA PRACTIONERS 13TH MAY, 2013 SHIRE HIGHLANDS HOTEL BLANTYRE

– My fellow Commissioners – The Chief Elections Officer, Mr Willie Kalonga – Ms Thandie Nkovole, Coordinator of the Course […]

FREE Cleft lip SURGERIES

 US based Operation of Hope in collaboration with Beit CURE Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi Africa will provide free cleft lip and […]

Tetanus eliminated in Vietnam, Malawi waits

The United Nations and its partners on May 15 announced that tetanus has been wiped out in more than 30 […]

Adding vaccines to intensify the assault on malaria

At the turn of the last century, the call to action to bring to bear tools such as insecticide-treated bed […]

Disabilities Prevent Aging Africans from Being Productive

Africa’s rapidly aging population is developing disabilities that limit their ability to be productive, according to a study conducted by […]

Recent Research Verifies Link Between Gut Biota and Malnutrition by Jay Krishnan

They say research is formalized curiosity… to poke and pry with a purpose. When Dr. Trehan noticed something odd in […]

Give someone the gift of life, Malawi Blood Transfusion Service (MBTS) tells Chanco students

The Malawi Blood Transfusion Service (MBTS) has encouraged students to take part in the on-going blood donation day in order […]

5 Rice University students invent low-cost bubble CPAP machine to treat premature infants with breathing issues in Malawi

A pair of local researchers has won a prestigious award for global innovation that highlights some pretty incredible students at Rice University […]

New EU support for access to clean water and sanitation in Malawi

European Commission has issued the following press release: The European Commission has announced that it will support Malawi in its […]

QECH records 30,000 typhoid cases monthly

Queen Elizabeth Central Hopsital (QECH) has been recording 30,000 cases of typhoid fever every month since January this year the […]

Poorest countries lead the fight against hunger and undernutrition

According to new research published by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), low income countries like Malawi and Madagascar and […]

How cell phones are being used to address some of the causes of poor health care for women and children in Malawi

Doreen Namasala has been a community health worker for over a decade in rural Malawi, a small landlocked country in […]

Malnutrition and the microbiome: Debugging the problem

SOMETIMES, the blindingly obvious is not actually correct. Malnutrition, for instance, is obviously caused by a lack of food. And […]

The 3rd annual Malawi Mental Health Research and Practice Conference last week

Over a hundred people attended this 3rd Malawi Mental Health conference. This 2 days annual conference took place in Mzuzu […]