Malawi News

From 7 to 12 November 2016, the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization in Malawi conducted the inter-country Training of Trainers meeting on Advocacy, Information and Communication and strategic planning for cervical cancer prevention and control. The meeting took place at the Sunbird Capital Hotel in Lilongwe and it was opened on the morning of 7 November by the Honorable Minister of Health, Dr Peter Kumpalume, MP. The participants were from Kenya, Nigeria, Zambia, Senegal, Zimbabwe, Madagascar, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ghana and the host country Malawi.

No-one is more vulnerable than a new born baby, and more in need of quality care. They are totally dependent on their mothers, who in turn rely on skilled doctors and nurses with working equipment in decent buildings. In Malawi, as in other countries in this region, we urgently need to improve the quality of this care, or place these fragile lives in danger.

The Governments of Malawi and eight other countries from Africa and South East Asia have committed to halve maternal, new-born and stillborn births. The commitment comes at a time Malawi and eight other countries launch the Network on the improvement of quality of care for maternal, neonatal and child health.

Lilongwe 15 May: The World Health Organization country office in Malawi handed over equipment to the College of Medicine and the Welcome Trust. The equipment will be used by the two research institutions to collect data for the WHO Multi-Country Survey (MCS) on abortion related morbidity.