Malawi: Cholera Cases Soar Globally - Malawi, Haiti Deadliest Outbreaks, WHO Reports
[UN News] The world enters 2024 with soaring cases of cholera globally, with over 667,000 cases and more than 4,000 deaths last year, UN agencies have reported. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 17, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Malawi Southern Africa Source Type: news
Southern Africa: As Cholera Cases Continue to Rise, Unicef Calls for Increased Focus On Children
[Unicef] Nairobi -- UNICEF redoubles support to concerned governments in the cholera response (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 16, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Africa Children and Youth External Relations Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa Malawi Southern Africa Zambia Zimbabwe Source Type: news
Malawi: Chakwera Directs Change of Phalombe District Hospital Name to John Chilembwe Hospital
[Nyasa Times] President Dr Lazarus Chakwera has directed that Phalombe District Hospital be renamed John Chilembwe Hospital in honour of the country's freedom fighter John Chilembwe who was killed in 1915 following an uprising he led against white oppressors. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 15, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Malawi Southern Africa Source Type: news
Malawi: Lilongwe Registers Cholera Case Suspected From Zambia
[Nyasa Times] A truck driver has been admitted to Bwaila Hospital in Lilongwe due to cholera suspected to have been imported from Zambia. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 14, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Malawi Southern Africa Zambia Source Type: news
Malawi: Cholera Menaces as Ministry of Health Requires Over U.S.$5 Million to Fight It
[Nyasa Times] Ministry of Health through the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19 and Cholera (PTF) said it has a deficit of over $5.9million from $18.2million required to implement cholera activities from November 2023 to October 2024. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 7, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Environment Health and Medicine Malawi Southern Africa Water and Sanitation Source Type: news
Malawi: Misa Malawi Hails Chakwera for Building Media-Government Relationship of Trust
[Nyasa Times] The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA Malawi Chapter) has commended President Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera and his Tonse Alliance government for fostering the building of a relationship of trust between the media and government. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 5, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Governance Health and Medicine Malawi Southern Africa Source Type: news
Malawi: Cases of Unsafe Abortion Soars - in 2023, Malawi Registered 35 000 Unsafe Abortions
[Nyasa Times] Government says the country registered unprecedented 35 000 unsafe abortions last year, renewing calls for the country to ease abortion laws so that they reflect the situation on the ground. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 5, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Legal and Judicial Affairs Malawi Pregnancy and Childbirth Southern Africa Source Type: news
Malawi: Nurses Industrial Action Cancelled
[Nyasa Times] The sit-in for nurses, midwives and physicians in public hospitals under the National Organization of Nurses and Midwives in Malawi (NONM) which was supposed to start on Friday (today) has been cancelled following ongoing discussions with the government. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 3, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Economy, Business and Finance Health and Medicine Labour Malawi Southern Africa Source Type: news
Malawi: Congestion Spreading TB in Malawi Prisons
[Nyasa Times] Malawi Prison Services (MPS) has cited congestion as the major contributing factor in the spread of tuberculosis (TB) in the country's prisons. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - January 3, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Health and Medicine Legal and Judicial Affairs Malawi Southern Africa Tuberculosis Source Type: news
Malawi: PCL Donates Medical Equipment to Blantyre District Health Office
[Nyasa Times] Conglomerate Press Corporation plc on Thursday donated various medical equipment to the Blantyre District Health Office to help save lives during the festive period. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 27, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Malawi Southern Africa Sustainable Development Source Type: news
Malawi: NBM Gives Mbts K80m for Blood Bank Fridges
[Nyasa Times] National Bank of Malawi (NBM) Plc has committed K80 million for the purchase of two blood bank fridges for the Malawi Blood Transfusion Services (MBTS) to help ease shortage of blood at Mulanje and Mangochi District Hospitals. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 27, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Malawi Southern Africa Sustainable Development Source Type: news
The correlation between social resilience and flooding in low-income communities: a case of Mzuzu City, Malawi - Bwanali W, Manda M.
PURPOSE Floods are among the most frequent urban disasters in cities of the global south where capacity and resource limitations collude with rapid urbanization to force many poor people to live in flood prone settlements. This paper investigated the impac... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 25, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Disaster Preparedness Source Type: news
Malawi: Cancer Centre to Be Operational in March, 2023
[Nyasa Times] Contractors of the first ever Cancer Centre in Lilongwe said the cancer hospital will be operational in three months time. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 18, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Malawi Noncommunicable Diseases Southern Africa Source Type: news
The burden of long bone fracture and health system response in Malawi: a scoping review - Abbas S, Chokotho L, Nyamulani N, Oliver VL.
OBJECTIVES: Fractures pose serious health and socioeconomic consequences for individuals, their families, and societies more broadly. In many low-resource settings, case fatality and long-term sequelae after a fracture remain high due to individual- and sy... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Science ’s 2023 Breakthrough of the Year: Weight loss drugs with a real shot at fighting obesity
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Obesity plays out as a private struggle and a public health crisis. In the United States, about 70% of adults are affected by excess weight, and in Europe that number is more than half. The stigma against fat can be crushing; its risks, life-threatening. Defined as a body mass index of at least 30, obesity is thought to power type 2 diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, fatty liver disease, and certain cancers.
Yet drug treatments...
Source: ScienceNOW - December 14, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
