Health
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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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Teen pregnancy in the face of disaster
Tropical Storm Ana that wreaked havoc in the Southern Region of Malawi displaced 5 313 women exposing them to a…
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Preserving every drop of polio shots
As community health workers hop house to house to vaccinate children against polio, Unicef Malawi communication officer RODGERS SIULA follows…
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Gesd bridges maternal health gaps
Ten month ago, Loyce Shaba perilously delivered a baby boy at home with the help of unskilled neighbours. The 33-year-old…
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