Health & Well-being

No Excuse for neglecting 10 million people with HIV

Governments must commit to massively scale up treatment at UN Summit on AIDS Governments will meet at the United Nations […]

Safety is not a given – The Former Optimist

Our family made it back home Saturday afternoon, a few days later than I had intended due to some auto […]

The Every Guy’s Guide: Holding hands in public

It finally feels like spring (for those of us unfortunate enough to live in four season states), and that means […]

Rural Areas Still Struggle to Access Medicines

By Charles Mpaka BLANTYRE, May 25, 2011 (IPS) – In the shade of a leafy mango tree at the rural […]

Ex Zambia and Botswana presidents on HIV mission in Malawi

A jovial former Zambian president, Kenneth Kaunda and fellow ex-Botswana leader Festus Mogae jetted into Lilongwe, Malawi, yesterday for a […]

What Housekeepers Do

Some people still think that a housekeeper’s job is a simple one and that all they really produce is a […]

How The World Will End On May 21 2011

We’ve been hearing all this chatter about how the world will end on May 21st. And as May 21st approaches, […]

Asking God about the date you will die: HIV testing as a zone of uncertainty in rural Malawi

Amy Kaler1 and Susan Watkins2 1University of Alberta. Email: akaler@ualberta.ca 2University of Pennsylvania/UCLA. Email: swatkins@ccpr.ucla.edu Abstract Testing for HIV is […]

Announcement: Youth Empowerment Media Seminar

Announcement: Youth Empowerment Media Seminar Media Access by Malawian Youth Malawi is becoming media saturated and as a result the […]

Queer Malawi lifts the gay curtain

Johannesburg, South Africa (IRIN) – Africa is generally not a safe place to have a same-sex relationship – you can […]

Transforming African Economies – Factsheet on Malawi

Malawi is one of the least urbanized countries in the world. In 2008, only 15.3 percent of the population lived […]

Liz Clibourne | What I Did On My Likizo

What I Did On My Likizo Likizo is a vacation, and I have just returned. It was sort of a […]

Ministry focuses on 4/14 Window in Malawi

? The “warm heart of Africa:” it’s a nickname fitting for the people and gorgeous landscapes of Malawi. It’s also a […]

Tobacco poisons Malawi’s children

By KRISTIN PALITZ At the height of Malawi’s tobacco harvest, the lush fields of the country’s key tobacco growing district, Kasungu, […]

4000 Chichewa-English dictionaries distributed in Malawi

By Clement Nyirenda   In January 2011, 4000 copies of the second edition of a combined Chichewa-English and English-Chichewa Dictionary […]

Malawi: Man born with no hands and disabled legs is repairing radios.

By  Clement Nyirenda I have just read an awesome story about Kelvin Maliwa, a 34 year old Malawian, who was […]

HEALTH FINANCING IN MALAWI

In literature there are seven forms of health sector funding mechanisms. They are through tax revenue in government budgets; social […]

From darkness to light in Malawi

For the last seven years, a team from Su-Kam has been quietly at work in the African nation of Malawi, […]