Tomorrow marks the start of a very busy week for the Project team in Malawi. Sylvester and his colleagues at the College of Health Sciences in Zomba are driving a truck loaded with new computers to all the remaining clinics in the Project network without a fully functioning computer. Globe Internet Malawi will be on [...]
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District Health Officer John Chipolombwe said that apart from the establishment of sputum testing centres, healthcare professionals would be visiting all prisons every month for sputum tests as one way of reducing the disease.
“We are also expected to go to all the six traditional authorities in the district to sensitise them on the importance [...]
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A randomised clinical trial conducted in Malawi has found that extending prophylaxis with nevirapine (Viramune), with or without AZT (zidovudine, Retrovir), from one week to fourteen weeks of life, significantly reduces HIV infection in infants born to HIV-positive mothers. Put simply, the study shows that the HIV and TB epidemics go hand in hand and, [...]
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Computers from Glasgow City Council
Health workers from clinics which are twinned with Scottish General Practices will be all smiles as the much awaited computers are in the country and safely delivered and kept at Malawi College of Health Sciences. They are 20 Compaq computers in total, from Glasgow City Council as a donation to Malawian [...]
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We often discuss fears of an African medical ‘brain drain’ on this blog. An article in this month’s Human Resources for Health journal analyses data on the extent of healthcare professionals working abroad.
You can read more here.
See also the launch of the World Health Organisation’s first ever ‘Guidlines on Incentives for Healthcare Professionals‘ that aim [...]
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Clinical Officer at Ndirande, Francis Phiri, has reflected on the recent troubles affecting some Malawians in South Africa.
Hundreds of Malawians arrived in the country over the past week from South Africa where xenophobic attacks against immigrants have claimed of tens of immigrant lives. The government of Malawi is carrying out a Repatriation campaign hoping to [...]
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The Malawi Communications Manager for the Project, Sylvester Chawala, is in Scotland for two weeks to learn about healthcare in Scotland and to meet some of the twinned general practices. Highlights of the visit so far have included shadowing a practice nurse in Edinburgh, meeting Dundee medical students and a trip to the David Livingstone [...]
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Research from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the UK and the Karonga Prevention Study in Malawi suggests that deaths from AIDS in rural parts of Malawi were averted by the rapid scale-up of free antiretroviral therapy. There was no change in the mortality rates of adults older than 6o [...]
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Researchers writing this month in the US journal Science have questioned the evidence base for current interventions aimed at reducing rates of HIV/AIDs. They argue that “Substantial investment in condom promotion, HIV testing and vaccine research has had limited success in Africa. Instead male circumcision and reducing multiple sexual partners should become the cornerstone of prevention.”
Others [...]
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One of Africa’s first modern clinics specialising in the treatment of children living with HIV/AIDS opened in Malawi this week. Malawi Health Minister Marjorie Ngaunje said the new Baylor College of Medicine International Paediatric AIDS Initiative would spell hope for the estimated 83,000 Malawi children now living with HIV/AIDS. Read more here.
Also this week, Malawi’s [...]
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