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Africa seeks Climate Justice for Health

22 August 2023

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 cli

Malawi contains cholera outbreak

16 August 2023

Lilongwe- Today, the Malawi Ministry of Health has officially declared that Cholera is no longer a national public health emergency in the country.

Dr Gift Sten Chinomba, Medical doctor

15 March 2023

As a general practitioner for over a decade, Dr Gift Sten Chinomba has treated many cholera patients.

WHO calls for a high-quality supplementary vaccination campaign to boost polio immun...

12 July 2023

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

WHO community sensitisation in Malawi’s Southern Region halts cholera outbreak

16 June 2023

Aubrey 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.

Empowering communities to fight cholera misinformation in Malawi

04 May 2023

In 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.

Mothers in Malawi value the first malaria vaccine

18 April 2023

In 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.

Malawi receives 1.4 million doses of Oral Cholera Vaccines to avert the spread of Ch...

14 April 2023

13 April 2023

Vaccines help battle cholera outbreak in Malawi

22 February 2023

In late 2022 staff at Tukombo health centre, a stone’s throw away from the shores of Lake Malawi, were stretched to the limit. The small facility in northern Malawi had been repurposed to serve as a cholera treatment centre to care for hundreds of patients as cases surged amid the country’s worst outbreak.

A child receiving a dose of Oral Polio Vaccine

Over 33 million children vaccinated against wild poliovirus in southern Africa

17 February 2023

A year since Malawi confirmed its first case of wild poliovirus type 1 in 30 years, more than 33 million children across five southern African countries have been vaccinated against the virus, with over 80 million vaccine doses administered over the past year.

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