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Blan Makawi, a senior health surveillance assistant based at Karemba Community Hospital in Nsanje, Malawi, was instrumental in the largest of the settlements, Bangura camp

Malawi strives to reach every child in polio vaccination drive

24 October 2022

Lilongwe – In mid-October 2022, Malawi completed the fourth round of a vaccination campaign against wild poliovirus. In February 2022 the country confirmed a case of wild polio, the first since 1992. The Ministry of Health, with support from World Health Organization (WHO) and the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, soon launched vaccination campaigns to reach every child, including in 170 settlements in the south of the country hosting people displaced by Tropical Storm Ana and cyclone Gombe back in early 2022.

World Health Organization and Ministry of Health calls for support to contain choler...

05 October 2022

Malawi is battling a protracted cholera outbreak that begun in March 2022 in districts affected by Tropical storm Anna and Cyclone Gombe in the Southern region of the Country. The current outbreak is unprecedented, spreading to districts in central and northern regions that have not experienced cholera in over a decade.

WHO validates Malawi for eliminating trachoma, first country in southern Africa

21 September 2022

Brazzaville/Lilongwe – World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Malawi as having eliminated trachoma—a bacterial eye infection that can cause irreversible blindness if untreated—as a public health problem.

WHO Malawi Country Office holds a 2022 Staff Retreat

16 September 2022

The World Health Organization (WHO) Malawi Country Office’s (WCO) team of 64 staff members converged in the lakeshore district of Mangochi from 10 to 15 August 2022 for a staff retreat.

UNICEF and WHO step up efforts to contain Cholera in Malawi and call for additional ...

24 August 2022

Lilongwe, 24 August 2022 – The cholera outbreak, initially limited to the southern part of the country, has now spread to Malawi's northern and central regions.

Reaching every last child with polio vaccine; the vaccinator experience

16 August 2022

Around 3.4 million vaccine doses were administered in the third round of the national mass vaccination campaign. Enock Banda is a vaccinator at Thotho, a waterlocked and mountainous area in the Northern part of Malawi and he shares his experience in what it takes to reach every last child with polio vaccine during the campaign.

Macron Chauluka, Polio Vaccinator

12 August 2022

Macron Chauluka is a community health worker on the front lines of Malawi’s ongoing fight against the wild poliovirus.

Malawi launches third round of mass vaccination drive to stop wild poliovirus

11 August 2022

Lilongwe, 11 August 2022 – Malawi today kicked off the third round of vaccination against wild poliovirus type 1 to protect all under 5 children and halt the devastatin

Malawi marks World Breastfeed Week with commitment to step up breastfeeding

01 August 2022

1 August 2022, Lilongwe- In solidarity for the World Breastfeeding Week, Malawi through the Ministry of Health, held a special event to launch a campaign to raise awareness

Enhanced local health services saving lives

01 August 2022

Zione Chiwaula, who lives in southern Malawi’s hard-to-reach Neno district, has two children who suffer from sickle cell disease. “They spent most of their early years admitted in hospitals, as they would regularly present with severe symptoms that needed special care,” she says.

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