The ART Coordinator for Phalombe District Harold Mwaleya reported that his district has managed to decrease number of its defaulters on ART treatment from 1,773 in Quarter 3 to 1,025 in Quarter 4 of the year 2021 de-spite several challenges. Mwaleya presented the report in Salima on 24th February, 2022 at a stakeholders meeting organized […]
The Public Education Officer (PEO) for the country’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Tapiwa Mleme Nyoni expressed fears over the tendency of late opening hours in most public health facilities; a situation that normally holds patients for hours before entering the examination room hence creating a fertile environment for corruption. The PEO made the sentiments on 25th […]
The EGPAF District Technical Officer (DTO) for Chiradzulu Suleman Issah says Expert Clients deployed in 11 of the 15 health facilities based in his district have successfully traced 1,292 defaulters and brought back 1,098 (85%) of them to care. Issah said this at a stakeholders meeting convened by the Network of Journalists Living with HIV […]
Drug theft and pilferage is considered as one of the contributing factors for the persistent drug shortages in Malawian health facilities. In order to curb the vice, the Director of Health Technical Sup-port Services in Ministry of Health Godfrey Kadewere suggests imprisonment as punishment without giving any option of fine. He says this is the […]
In 2021 the Drug Theft Investigations Unit (DTIU) in the ministry of health handled 49 drug theft cases in which 8 of them involved health workers such as pharmacy technicians, clinical officers, health surveillance assistants and other lower cadres; reveals a report from the anti drug theft unit. The Head of the DTIU Davies Lore […]
The Chairperson for the Parliamentary Committee on Budget and Finance Committee Gladys Ganda says she wholly recommends a proposal of directly funding health facilities at whatever may be an agreed rate. According to her; this is an intervention that could assist towards ending drug stock outs in public health facilities. Ganda made the sentiments on […]
The Chairperson for the Malawi Parliamentary Committee on Health, Dr. Matthews Ngwale says a stakeholders consultative meeting held at Capital Hotel in February 2021 observed that stock outs of medicines at the Central Medical Stores Trust (CMST) and consequently in public health facilities were due to inadequate funding. The consultative meeting therefore resolved that recapitalisation […]
Jenda Health Centre has reduced defaulter rate from 44.9 to 1%. The District ART Coordinator for Mzimba South Blessings Kamanga told a meeting convened by the Network of Journalists Living with HIV (JONEHA) on 8 October 2021 in Salima that the district has 31 health facilities 13 of which including Jenda are supported by Lighthouse […]
Phalombe has successfully almost doubled its PEPFAR screening target of 6,814 to 12,307 representing 181% in financial year 2020 to 2021. This was disclosed by the district’s ART Coordinator Harold Mwaleya at an update meeting held on 8 October 2021 in Salima. The meeting was convened by the Network of Journalists living with HIV (JONEHA) […]