MHEN backs government health reforms, including new district hospitals and dialysis expansion, but urges adequate funding to ensure improved service delivery, medicine availability and stronger accountability nationwide.
Malawi has confirmed two cholera cases in Lilongwe and Balaka as the rainy season begins. Health experts warn the situation exposes persistent gaps in water and sanitation, urging early action, vigilance and sustained prevention to avoid a wider outbreak.
New NAC findings show men continue to lag behind in HIV testing and treatment uptake. Health expert George Jobe is calling for targeted interventions, urging government to take services directly to workplaces, farms and other male-dominated areas to close the widening gap.
Malawi Health Equity Network (MHEN) says a reliable mode of transport plays a significant role in ensuring effective community mobilisation for improved child health across Malawi.
Head of Infrastructure Development in the Ministry of Health, Dr. Sanderson Kuyeri, says the National Cancer Centre (NCC), once fully operational, will assist government to save $2 million (approximately K3.4 billion) per year, the amount it spends on sending cancer patients abroad.
Malawi Health Equity Network (MHEN) has called upon the Ministry of Health and disgruntled healthcare workers to consider taking amicable action to resolve their differences before 10th June in the interest of patients.
