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Malawi's increased government expenditure on healthcare has coincided with a decrease in the country's dependence on external healthcare resources, such as international and non-governmental aid. In 2009 external resources were responsible for 97.4% of total health expenditures, in 2011 they were responsible for 52.4%. [ 8 ]
The institution was established in the early 2013 with support from the Ministry of Health for research, prevention and controlling of diseases on national level as well as obtaining evidence that implements policy and practice in public health service delivery. [12]
According to the recent 2018 Census done by the National Statistical Office in Malawi, the country has a total population of 17.5 million people. Nearly 15% of the population is composed of under five children, 36% is aged between 5 and 17 years and 49.7% is aged 18 years and above [ 3 ] The current population in Malawi is 20,405,321 as of 2022 ...
Malawi National Cancer Centre (MNCC), also Malawi National Cancer Treatment Centre (MNCTC), is a public, specialized, tertiary care medical facility owned by the Malawi Ministry of Health. Since 2020, the facility's administrative department is temporarily housed within Kamuzu Central Hospital , in Nangwagwa (Area 33), in Lilongwe , the capital ...
The Malawi Medical Journal is a quarterly general medical journal and is open-access and peer-reviewed. It is published by the University of Malawi College of Medicine and the Medical Association of Malawi. It was established in 1979 as the Medical Quarterly, obtaining its current name when it was relaunched in 1991. [1]
The medical college maintains a second campus along Mzimba Road, in the national capital of Lilongwe, [3] approximately 312 kilometres (194 mi), by road, northwest of the main campus in Blantyre. [5] The coordinates of the second campus are: 13°58'35.0"S, 33°46'53.0"E (Latitude:-13.976389; Longitude:33.781389).
The following are some of the private hospitals in Malawi. [5] Discovery Imaging Centre; Beit Cure International Hospital, Blantyre; Shifa Hospital, Blantyre; Billy Riordan Memorial Clinic, Chembe (Cape McLear) Blantyre Adventist Hospital, Blantyre [6] Blessings Hospital, Lumbadzi; Care Polyclinic Limited, Lilongwe; Mlambe Mission Hospital ...
Bingu wa Mutharika, third President of Malawi (2004–2012) The first case of HIV/AIDS in Malawi was reported at Lilongwe's Kamuzu Central Hospital in 1985. [7] President Hastings Banda, who was in power at the time, responded with several small-scale prevention initiatives and created the National AIDS Control Programme, a division of the Ministry of Health, to manage the growing epidemic. [1]