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) has distributed bicycles to mother care groups in Kasungu District to help the community-led volunteer structures with mobility as they drum up mobilisation for immunisation.
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.
Malawi Health Equity Network (MHEN) Assistant Projects Officer, Herbert Chakwawa, has hailed mother care groups (MCGs) in Kasungu for constructing houses for Health Surveillance Assistants (HSAs), a development he says has helped to promote access to immunization services in communities.
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.
At the northeastern tip of Kasungu District near the border with Mzimba, there sits a community called Manjondo Village, telephonically disconnected from the rest of the district.
Malawi Health Equity Network (MHEN) has expressed satisfaction with Mother Care Groups (MCG) role in mobilising communities in Blantyre rural to understand the benefits of child immunization.
Statistics at Chilomoni Health Centre in Blantyre indicate that the facility has registered a 97 percent immunization coverage, barely three percent shy of the finish line.
Combined efforts to get every child and mother vaccinated against diseases are paying dividends in the area of Village Head (VH) Chiute of Traditional Authority Mlonyeni in Mchinji district.
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.
