Vibangalala Health Centre in Mzimba district has registered a tremendous reduction of defaulter rate from 13% as reported in October 2021 to -31%. District ART Coordinator representative, Joel Mkandawire disclosed this in a stakeholders meeting held by Network of Journalists Living with HIV (JONEHA) in Salima on 24th February 2022. Mkandawire said the negative number […]
Population Service International (PSI) Mala-wi has urged people in the country to drum support and patronize Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) if the country is to win the fight against high prevalence rates of HIV. Speaking at a press briefing held in Blan-tyre, VMMC Coordinator and Senior Clinical Officer for Mulanje district, Martin Malunga said […]
Director of the Criminal Investigations Depart-ment (CID) in the Malawi Police Services Em-manuel Soko who is also responsible for the drug section has called for urgent financial, technical and material support for effectively investigating, apprehending and bringing to justice offenders of medicinal drug theft and pilferage in public health facilities.Soko made the call on 25th […]
As defaulting among ART clients re-mains a challenge due to various factors like migration to South Africa and the nature of infrastructure that causes long waiting time at ART clinic, the Lighthouse Trust with funding from PEPFAR through CDC is working in 13 of the 26 public health facilities in Mzimba South District to support […]
The Vice Chairperson for the Board of the Network of Journalists Living with HIV (JONEHA) Dr. Ben-son Tembo urged a stakeholders meeting that comprised representatives from various government departments and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to come up with interventions that would help address the country’s persistent drug stock outs in public health facilities. “What brings […]
The Program Manager for the Malawi Health Equity Network (MHEN) Davies Mwachumu recommended capacity building for an already existing structure known as Health Centre Management Committees (HCMC) as strategic intervention towards curbing drug theft and pilferage at public health facilities. Mwachumu told a consultative meeting in Salima on 25th February 2022 that building capacity of […]
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 […]