Health
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Activists remember abortion ruling
Pro-Choice Campaigners meeting in Dedza last week hailed the government for rubber-stamping the court ruling that affirmed women’s rights to…
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Caregivers return to basics to save lives
A battered earth road that splits a vast floodplain west of Chikwawa town takes travellers close to Majete Wildlife Reserve,…
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Sparking disability inclusion
In 1976, Tilile Nabanda of Mponda Village, Traditional Authority (T/A) Kaomba in Kasungu District, delivered a baby with malformed legs. …
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Calls for safe abortion persist
Lying on a hospital bed in Kamuzu Central Hospital’s Gynaecological ward, Edna, 16, is battling for her life after clandestinely…
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Mothers fight cervical cancer
At just 21, Jessie Mzemba is a foot soldier in Malawi’s battle against vaccine hesitancy and cervical cancer. Every day,…
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Abortion balloons health spending
Malawi’s overwhelmed healthcare system is paying a huge cost to treat deadly complications fuelled by a colonial ban on termination…
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Wash boost for urban schools
In 2022, Chisiyo Primary School along the Western Bypass Road on the outskirts of Lilongwe City faced a water and…
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Govt whips up health financing
For years, caregivers in Malawi’s public healthcare facilities have been sending back patients empty-handed amid persistent lack of essential medicines.…
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Non-economic impactsof cyclones in Malawi
Chrissy Lingson, 19, was afraid to go back to school after Cyclone Ana induced floods destroyed her Kanseche Village in…
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Water project fights cholera and scabies
Magdalena Nyirenda, 42,recalls bitter memories of a period when people in Galang’anda area near Mwazisi Trading centre in Rumphi relied…
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