Health
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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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‘Hypertension isn’t witchcraft’
For months, group village head Penembe’s 90-year-old mother, Mezinati Laison gasped for breath. Next, tongues started wagging in the rural…
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Men quietly bottle it up
On a wooden bench outside a small rundown pub in the thick of Limbe Town, Blantyre, a group of men…
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Schools power polio fight
At Makawa Primary School in Mangochi District, more than 5000 children fill classrooms each day. However, March 24 2026 is…
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Did authorties doze off?
In a stench that fouls air at Dyeratu Trading Centre in Chikwawa, tongues wag about spills of ethanol waste from…
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