Vaginal ring: The next frontier in HIV prevention
A report from the Aspire study of 2 629 women in Malawi, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe presented at the 21st International Aids conference…
Category: Society
No fresh grounds as Freshlyground return to LoS tonight
It is no fresh ground for the multinational group, Freshlyground, as tonight they perform again at the Lake of Stars (LoS) festival for the…
Mining in Malawi brings forced evictions, report says
Villagers in Malawi have been forcibly evicted from their homes to make way for coal and uranium mines and consequently face serious problems accessing…
Is empowering citizens on their rights necessary?
Power is intangible, but crucial; a subtle and pervasive force field connecting individuals, communities and nations in a constant process of negotiation, contestation and…
Art redefining culture
A lot has been said and written about a ‘hyena’ in Nsanje. A BBC report recently opened debate on the sexual ritual cleansing practice…
Police brutality: Are police officers above the law?
Pictures of police officers slapping students at Chancellor College (Chanco)—a constituent college of the University of Malawi (Unima)—during the demonstrations against the hiking of…
Forced sterilisation of women
The International Community of Women Living with HIV and Aids (ICW) held a workshop in January 2008 for 30 young women living with HIV…
Fairy tales: A trip up Lake Malawi
As the sun rises, the inky shape of the hills and the stars above the Malawian shore start to pale. In the east towards…
Are donations sustainable in financing health sector?
Donors and well-wishers have for decades been financing approximately 60 percent of Malawi’s healthcare system, according to data available on malawiproject.org. The information shows…
Less clinic visits improve retention in HIV care
At the 21st International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2016) which took place in Durban, South Africa. Yours truly was not there…but my surf of the…
Should we go ahead drilling oil, gas on Lake Malawi?
Environmental activists, including one Godfrey Mfiti, have been holding public lectures and mobilising community and traditional leaders to rally behind them in persuading government…
Fare ye well Zacharia
They say artists foresee death. It seems so did stage play and movie actor Jacobs Mwase, alias Zacharia, who on Wednesday morning succumbed to…
Could the elderly be solution to albino myths?
A professing Kenyan Christian woman killed her child born with albinism, Esther Moraa, in August 2010. In court, the mother claimed that her husband…
Malawian HIV research round up
I did a title/abstract search for HIV and Malawi in Medline to find out what research has been published about Malawi on HIV. The…
Young artistS take centre stage
Looking at the lineup of performers at tomorrow’s Carlsberg Urban Music Legacy at the College of Medicine Sports Complex in Blantyre, one is left…
Umtheto: more than a cultural festival
It’s August again. That month of the year all roads lead to Hora Heritage Centre in Mzimba. The occasion is the Umthetho Cultural…
Ageing and HIV
Today, people living with HIV receiving treatment can expect a near normal lifespan—something 20 years ago sounded impossible! With the focus now on…
Who is to blame for discrimination of disabled persons?
Stigma and discrimination targeting people with disabilities (PWDs) is a contentious issue in Malawi as it is the world over. Concern Universal (CU)…
Why some women don’t take their ARVs
A qualitative study of women here in Malawi who chose not to take HIV treatment as part of the Option B+ programme, or who…
The joys of beads
Traditionally worn under clothes by African women, waist beads have different meanings. Ranging from rites of passage, to enticing your husband to bed, to…