Health
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Mothers fight cervical cancer
At just 21, Jessie Mzemba is a foot soldier in Malawi’s battle against vaccine hesitancy and cervical cancer. Every day,…
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Abortion balloons health spending
Malawi’s overwhelmed healthcare system is paying a huge cost to treat deadly complications fuelled by a colonial ban on termination…
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Wash boost for urban schools
In 2022, Chisiyo Primary School along the Western Bypass Road on the outskirts of Lilongwe City faced a water and…
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Govt whips up health financing
For years, caregivers in Malawi’s public healthcare facilities have been sending back patients empty-handed amid persistent lack of essential medicines.…
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Non-economic impactsof cyclones in Malawi
Chrissy Lingson, 19, was afraid to go back to school after Cyclone Ana induced floods destroyed her Kanseche Village in…
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Water project fights cholera and scabies
Magdalena Nyirenda, 42,recalls bitter memories of a period when people in Galang’anda area near Mwazisi Trading centre in Rumphi relied…
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‘Every birth-related death tells a story’
Flossie Maloya could not wait to have her first baby at Chikwawa District Hospital in May, but she needed a…
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From America with smiles
Dr James Mchenga is Malawi’s sole surgeon specialised in repairing jaw and face conditions. The medical doctor has a blow-by-blow…
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Volunteers tackle nutrition myths
Pilirani Kachimanga, 39, grew up hearing that eggs are hazardous for pregnant women and lactating mothers. During her first pregnancy…
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Mothers ride for life
Ambulance services offer life-saving rides to pregnant women affected by Cyclone Freddy, writes UNFPA Communications Analyst JOSEPH SCOTT. Having given…
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Cyclone cripples health services
Every health facility guarantees its surrounding population access to quality care within reach, but Gladys Enoch returned home gutted on…
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New hope to reduce cervical cancer deaths
A poignant story about a woman from Malawi this week resonates deeply with many. At the age of 40, Mary…
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Unicef delivers anti-cholera supplies
Bwaila Hospital is the second busiest of the 61 health facilities in Lilongwe, where frontline health workers are working tirelessly…
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Fresh push to legalise abortion
In Senior Chief Chikumbu’s area in Mulanje, an 11-year-old girl was impregnated. She could not keep the pregnancy due to…
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Relax abortion laws, activists
In July 2018, a 15-year-old girl disguised as Joy was defiled by a businessman almost thrice her age. The girl,…
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Mental illness: chained daily for 8 years
Aaron Banda has since his birth been denied his share of the joys that life offers. Born in 2002 in…
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When cholera outpaces initiatives
At Bangwe Health Centre in Blantyre, 27-year-old Ganizani lies helplessly in a cholera tent with a drip of lingers lactate…
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Everyone counts in HIV fight
Today is the World Aids. With only eight years left before the 2030 goal of ending Aids as a global…
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Machinga opens elders’ clinic
They are old, frail and sickly. They no longer work like they did when they were energetic, but have to…
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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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