Health
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Breastfeeding at work
At 7:15 am, Rizwana Makda gently kisses her four-month-old daughter goodbye before taking a motorbike to work as a teacher…
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Youths rise against suicide
When a 10-year-old boy hang himself to a kitchen roof in Karonga District last year, dumbstruck villagers asked: What drove…
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Students battle healthcare gaps
In a laboratory at the Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences (Mubas), ideas are translated into project sketches on…
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Health talks popularise exclusive breastfeeding
It is the World Breastfeeding Week. Freelance journalist JOSEPHINE CHINELE highlights how the impact of routine health talks illustrate how…
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Hepatitis scares caregivers
July 28 is World Hepatitis Day in recognition of the global fight against the inflammation of the liver, commonly caused…
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‘Our priority is to findevery missing TB case’
Clad in a sky-blue uniform, Maison Kameta is a trusted community health worker at Chiringa Health Centre and in surrounding…
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Beyond a stroke of luck
Emmie Katangwe is a God-fearing Malawian, but something terrible happened just when she was going down on her knees in…
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Tears for little Shamila
Seven-year-old Shamila Lewis had just returned from school around 3pm when a stray dog bit her calf muscle, wrist and…
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‘I’ve donated blood 73 times’
Isaac Chibade, 37, has donated blood for a whopping 73 times. The trusted blood donor, from Bangwe in Blantyre, started…
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What breaks your iron man?
June is Men’s Mental Health Month. Our Staff Writer SANGULUKANI NYIRENDA looks at the plight of men left to their…
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