Lilongwe- A Regional Summit on Health and Climate Change for the African Region is taking place at BICC in Lilongwe in pursuit of a unified African position on health in climate change negotiations. The summit has brough…
Read moreLilongwe- Today, the Malawi Ministry of Health has officially declared that Cholera is no longer a national public health emergency in the country. The Minister of Health, Honourable Khumbize Kandodo-Chiponda, MP accompa…
Read moreLilongwe - The World Health Organization has called on government, partners, and donors to join forces to ensure Malawi delivers a high-quality vaccination campaign against poliovirus. The World Health Representative for…
Read moreLilongwe - Door to door, Chrissy Dzimkambani is set to walk at least five kilometers on this day to visit 50 households in her village. “I have lost a good number of people I grew up with in this community because of cho…
Read moreAubrey Timoti is not willing to take chances when it comes to sanitation issues in his community after witnessing his neighbours lose two children to cholera. Timoti (28) from Kulima village in Malawi’s Chikwawa Dist…
Read moreLilongwe- It is a sunny Tuesday morning, and the weather forecast says it will be hot and windy in the capital, Lilongwe. The World Health Organization Malawi Country Office compound is filled with blue shirts as WHO sta…
Read moreIn the early months of 2023, village chief Dyson Chamizi and his brother were taken ill at Nathenje Health Centre, a facility near their home some 40 kilometres from Lilongwe, Malawi’s capital. Both had cholera, which is extremely virulent, but easily treatable.
Read moreIn April 2019, Gilimbeta took her daughter Lusitana to a rural health facility on the outskirts of Lilongwe, Malawi, for vaccination. At the time, she did not realize that her infant daughter was being written into history: the 5-month-old was the first child to receive the world’s first malaria vaccine (RTS,S/AS01 or RTS,S) as part of the WHO-coordinated Malaria Vaccine Implementation Programme.
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