Health
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Fresh push to legalise abortion
In Senior Chief Chikumbu’s area in Mulanje, an 11-year-old girl was impregnated. She could not keep the pregnancy due to…
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Relax abortion laws, activists
In July 2018, a 15-year-old girl disguised as Joy was defiled by a businessman almost thrice her age. The girl,…
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Mental illness: chained daily for 8 years
Aaron Banda has since his birth been denied his share of the joys that life offers. Born in 2002 in…
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When cholera outpaces initiatives
At Bangwe Health Centre in Blantyre, 27-year-old Ganizani lies helplessly in a cholera tent with a drip of lingers lactate…
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Everyone counts in HIV fight
Today is the World Aids. With only eight years left before the 2030 goal of ending Aids as a global…
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Machinga opens elders’ clinic
They are old, frail and sickly. They no longer work like they did when they were energetic, but have to…
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Tracking antibiotic-resistant germs
In Malawi’s overwhelmed hospitals, doctors are worried about growing resistance to antibiotics, the drugs used to treat deadly bacterial diseases…
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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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