Tuberculosis in Malawi Malawi has declared tuberculosis a national emergency. Currently over 27,500 people are being diagnosed with the disease every year, but this figure is estimated to be only 50% of all cases in the country. The USAID estimates the total number of new cases each year to be 52,000. The Malawi Ministry of […]
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Disabled Travelers Can Now Expect Assistance Kamuzu International Airport, Malawi … One can hardly imagine a handicapped person arriving at an International Airport only to find no wheelchair available to assist them. Until recently this was true in Malawi, Central Africa until the donation of seven wheelchairs to the Airport Authority from the Malawi
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The Malawi Project continues to enlarge its programs of assistance in other districts of Malawi. One of the program additions is the Kuthandiza Osayenda Disability Outreach in Salima, Malawi. The Kuthandiza program was started because of the disability of its director, Mr. George Chimpiko Banda who was born with disabled
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Part of the Council for the Handicapped Program The Bangwe Weaving Factory opened in 1976 as a result of the creation of the Malawi Council For The Handicapped (MACOHA) by an act of the Malawi Parliament in 1971 (Chapter 35:02) under the administration of Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda the First President of the nation.
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“He has a gentle and open nature like very few people that I’ve ever met,” reports Mark Thiesen an American working in the southern part of Malawi. Mark has been part of a missionary family in Malawi since he was a small boy. His parents were missionaries in the northern part of the nation and
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Namikango Maternity Clinic was built in the trading center of Thondwe in 1973-74. Thondwe is located just a few miles east of the city of Blantyre, the commercial center of the nation in the southern region of the country. Between 60 and 80 babies a month are born in the facility. Mark Thiesen,
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She Thought She Was Useless A forty-six-year old lady named Namateni Banda lives in a village called Kawamba Villege. She lives in the area of Traditional Tribal Authority Mponela in Dowa District. This is the first district or state north of the capital city of Lilongwe, Malawi, Central Africa. Namateni was able to walk until
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Rehabilitation Hospital in Blantyre Will Begin Receiving Shipments Plans for 2007 called for the expansion of medical supply distributions to a number of new sites in Malawi besides those already destined for Blessings Hospital in Lumbadzi. In March and July two shipments were sent directly to Bottom Hospital in the capital city of Lilongwe.
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Not All Days Bring Success Editor’s Note: The following story played out in the largest hospital in the capital city of Lilongwe, Kamuzu Central Hospital. Reporting is Renee, a 3rd year Australian Medic Student. She had come to Malawi for the summer to work with the Malawi Project. Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH), is a 1,000-bed,
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Bottom Hospital sits in the old trading center portion of Lilongwe Town, a short distance from the big mosque, and just east of the Lilongwe River. Highway M-1 passes a block to the north and the visitor passing through town may miss it entirely. It must have derived its name because it sits at
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