Health

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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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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Risky childbirths of Ruarwe

Last December, Pamela Mphasi, 21, gave birth at home and named the baby Favour because she was born “luckily if…

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Stressed by open defaecation

At 14, Mercy knows what the remote lakeside population appears not to worry about. “Even adults defaecate in the open,”…

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Gains in mother to child HIV transmission

In 1999, Malawi was at a peak in the mother to child transmission (MTCT) of HIV. This coincided with the…

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