Health
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Caregivers deliver more in one place
Integrated approaches expand rural communities’ access to health services, reports our Staff Writer JAMES CHAVULA: Grace Chimkomola is a familiar…
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‘Remote communities need quality care too’
They are among the lowest-ranking cadre of the healthcare workforce, but disease control and surveillance assistants, formerly known as health…
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When lawmakers doze off
Last year was a moment of triumph over adversity for Alinafe, an underage survivor of sexual violence who challenged a…
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‘Money vanished, but sickle cell persisted’
Mary Thomson and her husband, Kanjala, have lost their income amid changing witchdoctors, but their firstborn’s suffering has not changed.…
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Women torn between work and motherhood
When her baby girl was born on March 14, Memory Mgode, from Mzuzu City counted every day of her three-month…
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Girls in school go pink
The afternoon sun was already scorching, draping Blantyre Secondary School campus in a soft golden glow. But that day, the…
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Rodney dreams big after beating cancer
Rodney Gowero was nine years old in May 2022 when a swollen face, persistent stomachaches and nausea turned out to…
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American doctor behind malaria care milestones
American medical researcher, Professor Terry Taylor, is not well known among Malawians even though her work impacts their lives, especially…
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Sustaining fight against HIV fight amid aid cuts
Malawi is bolstering efforts to protect progress in the fight against HIV amid sudden aid cuts, especially by the US,…
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Speeding between life and death
The jagged road from Chitipa to Mzuzu is long. Winding past hills and valleys for seven hours on cratered tarmac,…
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