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Mzimba South district director of health and social services Prince Chirwa says the district has registered 26 conjunctivitis cases, also known as pink eye disease. Speaking in an interview yesterday, he said the eye disease was first registered in Mzimba North where they recorded 38 cases. Chirwa said the disease is contagious and asked communities

Kachila Youth Initiative, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has asked Karonga District Health Office (DHO) to introduce youth-friendly health services at some health facilities in the district. The request follows the NGO’s assessment conducted in January this year which established that the district’s 21 health facilities do not have policy documents and information, education and communication

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Green Explorations Limited has expressed interest to start exploring lithium and other minerals, including rare earth elements, beryl, tantaline, copper, gold, uranium and niobium in Paramount Chief Kyungu in Karonga District. Speaking in an interview after addressing Karonga District Environmental Sub-Committee, the firm’s geologist Madalitso Mkabiza said the exploration will involve activities that will provide

A 25 year old man, Jacob Mwakatundu, has died after throwing himself from an Airtel Tower at Mwambuli Village in Traditional Authority Kyungu's area in Karonga

​​This seminar will discuss leprosy and the history of leprosy research, including its relationship to the WHO TDR programme - which led to a major research programme in Karonga District in northern Malawi, associated with LSHTM, starting in 1979. Two total population surveys provided detailed descriptive and risk factor data, and a large RCT examined repeat BCG and a new vaccine containing killed M leprae.

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Police in Mzuzu is keeping in custody a 31 year old man for being suspected of robbery at Chibanja in the city. Assistant Public Relations Officer for Mz

Two bodies from a fatal road accident in Rumphi, which occurred a month ago, are yet to be identified. The accident involved a fuel tanker traveling from Mzu