Lilongwe - 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 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 - 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 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.
Read more13 April 2023 Lilongwe- Malawi has received 1.4 million doses of Oral Cholera Vaccines (OCV) from the International Coordinating Group (ICG) with support from GAVI as the country faces risk of continuous spread of cho…
Read moreAs a general practitioner for over a decade, Dr Gift Sten Chinomba has treated many cholera patients.
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