Health
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‘Schools should notjust teach sexuality’
Thembinkosi Manda, a 16-year-old Form Four student at Katoto Secondary School in Mzuzu, values her health rights. Having seen her…
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Lab woes slow polio tests
On Christmas Eve in 2025, there was no Santa or candies for a seven-year-old from Makhetha Township in Blantyre, who…
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Cholera among us again
Cholera has become a seasonal killer in one of Blantyre City’s clustered settlements, marked with blocked drains, leaking pit latrines,…
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Neno switches to lifesaver
Frequent and random power outages can mean life and death for patients, but specialised technology can prevent lapses in care,…
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Water supply stirs hope
They say water is life. While safe and clean water is often taken for granted, remote communities such as Daudi…
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Climate shocks fuel cholera
In Nathenje, on the outskirts of Lilongwe District, 31-year-old Lezina Aaron is still struggling to recover from the shock of…
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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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