The Scotland Malawi Partnership (SMP) has updated and relaunched its website. Click the blue hyperlink to check out the changes. It is a useful forum for news, learning more about other projects, and source documents. The Twinning Clinics Project is proud to support SMP.
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Scots are apparently turning out in numbers to cheer on the Malawi football team when matches are shown on TV. The ‘tartan army’, as Scots fans are known, will try to shout loud enough in Glasgow to be heard in Angola.
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As part of an ongoing exchange programme between the University of Dundee, Scotland and The University of Malawi College of Medicine two Malawian students visited Scotland in nov-dec 2009. Yasin and Shaffi joined the Dundee Final Year Medical Course for 2 months.
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Are there any clinicians with an interest in Dermatolgoy who would be interested in developing links with clinicians in Scotland. There may be an opportunity for sharing of skills, pictures, advice and training with one of Scotland’s Dermatology centres. Please post a comment if so.
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A clinical question for clinicians in Malawi and Scotland (and other places too). This week I saw a lady, 20 weeks pregnant, recently returned from sub-sarharan Africa, who presented with a cough, myalgia and a high temperature. Scotland is in the midst of the H1N1 pandemic and pregant ladies are at high risk of complications, [...]
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Find out more about Public Health and Policy by tracking what is happening on other Blogs. Malawi Clinics are listed as one of 50 excellent Blogs by RN Central.
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An unknown outbreak has registered 133 cases, 95 in Malawi and 38 in bordering country-Mozambique. According to the Nation Newspaper of Friday 24 July 2009, Secretary for Health, Chris Kang’ombe said the disease has so far killed 17, nine from Malawi and eight from Mozambique since May this year. Five American health specialists arrived in [...]
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Dennis Kalimbira quotes the ‘Nation’ Newspaper. Peter and Tiwonge (Not real names) three years ago tied a knot in a very colourful wedding ceremony, attended by big shots and have one child. In celebrating their third year marriage anniversary, they went to test their serostatus again. When the results came out, they were shocked! Before [...]
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Congratulations to colleagues at the University of Malawi, College of Medicine in Blantyre for publishing a fascinating randomised controlled trial of nutritional supplementation in HIV, published this week in the BMJ. The team compared supplementary feeding with fortified spread or corn-soy in wasted adults commencing anti retroviral therapy for HIV.
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WHAT IS EATING FOR LIFE? Denis Kalimbira had this to say: Eating for life is a programme Megan Taddonio-the then Peace Corps Volunteer at Kangolwa Health Centre in Ntchisi in 2007 and I introduced after seeing children who were discharged in Nutrition Rehabilitation Unit relapse into malnourished state after treatment is over. Eating for life [...]
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