Health
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Plight of defiled girls
Martha lived happily with her stepfather after her widowed mother remarried. She never imagined that her new home would be…
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No sex, no job
This story was supported by the Pulitzer Centre Linda*, a former tea estate labourer in Malawi, had a typical rags-to-riches…
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Fighting sexual gender-based violence with community fund
Violent Thauzeni, 24, from Ntchisi District is too traumatised to open up about her oppressive marital life. While performing some…
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Water improves health care
Grey Betha, a midwife technician at Osiyana Health Centre in Nsanje, knows how difficult it is to work in a…
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Racing to save women, babies
Patricia Chimangeni is not an athlete, but she run 10 kilometres in Greater Manchester, UK, to raise funds so no…
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Keeping vaccines chilled
Sights of blue cold boxes decked by the doorstep welcome you to the district vaccine store at Lilongwe District Health…
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What keeps Covid jabs cool?
Florence Kamwendo became a community health worker in 1994, two years after Malawi wiped out polio by vaccinating every child…
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Displaced children face malnutrition
March 10 was an extraordinary day for Dona Peter, who was six-month pregnant when she fled severe floods caused by…
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Border community adopts Covid jab
The global spread of Covid-19 illustrates how contagious infections can cross borders at the speed people and goods move. The…
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Drones map mosquito breeding grounds
Using an innovative, 21st-century way to destroy a centuries-old problem, scientists at the Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust use drones to…
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