Reproductive Health

Two women die while giving birth at Mchinji hospital due to electricty black out

The safe motherhood song is suddenly dying under the noise of the 2014 campaign trail in which all efforts of […]

Nkhatabay sex workers want bigger condoms for ‘extra-large’ customers

Women, who ply drinking places as commercial sex-workers at Nkhatabay Boma say the current standard male condoms do not fit […]

Why Should Women Die Like Goats?

In Malawi, one in 36 mothers dies in childbirth—but even the U.S., which ranks 50th in the world in maternal […]

Women MPs call for family planning support

Malawi’s Women Caucus Committee of parliament has vowed to lobby other lawmakers not to pass the 2013-14 national budget if […]

How Malawi is improving a terrible maternal mortality rate through good design

Pregnancy is supposed to be about life. And yet, every day, 800 women across the globe die from preventable causes […]

3 nurses arrested in Mangochi following pregnant woman’s death

Police in Mangochi have arrested 4 nursing officers at Mangochi District Hospital after a pregnant woman died due to their […]

Cracks, walls to safe motherhood

Mulolo River was rowdy and enraged the day we visited Masenjere Health Center in T /A Mulolo Nsanje. Too grim […]

Malawi’s Leader Makes Safe Childbirth Her Mission

Malawi is a country of rolling hills and marshy flatlands, where 85 percent of the population live in the countryside, […]

How Malawi is improving a terrible maternal mortality rate through good design

Pregnancy is supposed to be about life. And yet, every day, 800 women across the globe die from preventable causes […]

President Joyce Banda: New Focus on Women’s Health and Empowerment in Malawi

When Joyce Banda unexpectedly ascended to the presidency of Malawi last April, after the death of President Mutharika, many in […]

Global leaders arrive for maternal health initiative

Several former world leaders under the Global Leaders Council for Reproductive Health (GLC) started arriving in the country on Tuesday […]

Maternal health gets a boost in Malawi

On a gray Wednesday morning in the Malawian capital of Lilongwe, a group of young people perform a skit for […]

Old men on sex drugs risk stroke

Behaviour change expert Timothy Bonyonga has said old men who marry younger women have become the biggest consumers of aphrodisiacs […]