Month: July 2017 Posts

TB project targets miners

Jul 01, 2017 Chikondi Magalasi 1 &

Mining might be a job worth millions of money but it also put lives of people at risk when it comes to contracting diseases such as Silicosis and Tuberculosis (TB). This is why PARADISO TB… ...

God save us from religion

Jun 03, 2017 Samuel Majamanda 13 &

While the World commemorated the International Nurses Day on May 12, 2017, four-year-old Dyson M’mangisa curled up in a hospital bed at Mulanje District Hospital praying for God to save him from the religion of… ...

Malawi to conduct rubella, measles vaccination campaign this month

Jun 01, 2017 Mphatso Khutcha Richard 0 &

In a bid to overcome measles which mostly attacks mostly children, the government of Malawi will conduct a measles-rubella vaccination campaign starting this month. The National Integrated Measles-Rubella vaccination campaign will be carried out to… ...

Malawi not prepared for pandemics

May 28, 2017 Martha Chikoti 0 &

Most countries, including Malawi, are not adequately prepared for a pandemic and the world is still doing too little to strengthen pandemic preparedness, according to a report by the World Bank. The report entitled From… ...

Malawi on the lookout for Ebola

May 17, 2017 Luke Bisani 47 &

The Malawi government has disclosed readiness in blocking the spread of Ebola into the country despite the human migration and geographical setting from the country that has since registered the deadly disease. This follows reports… ...

Week-long cervical cancer screening campaign starts today

Apr 20, 2017 Andrew Cane Chilapondwa 14 &

DREAM will start a week long cervical cancer screening campaign in the city of Blantyre today. The screening campaign will see women in the reproductive age group of 15-49 going for the screening campaign in… ...

No malaria drugs in Malawi’s hospitals

Mar 09, 2017 Russell Kondowe 0 &

Despite the fact that Malaria accounts for 6.81% of deaths in Malawi, public hospitals have run out of drugs that treat the disease. '' Officials in the hospitals are supposed to render account for every… ...