The world on May 7 joined hands to commemorate the World Asthma Day, a disease that has suffered little attention despite millions of people in almost every region being affected.

A survey conducted in some of the country's private pharmacy hospitals, national procurement centre and public hospital pharmacies has revealed an unavailability of some of the asthma drugs and this is highlighted in the global asthma report 2011.

She had been swimming in the splendour of chieftaincy. Her mere wandering in her village was characterised by innumerable sights of kneeling women, squatting young men and bowing grown-ups, all giving her the right to passage.

By the time she went into labour for her first child, Phafyani Harawa was over 10 kilometres from the nearest health centre. There was no hope for an ambulance to pick her from her home at Mweyeye to the nearest health centre at Lura.

One usually associates foreign based Malawians especially those in Western countries such as Britain to be exhibitionistic, proud and prone to temptations of distancing themselves from the plight of their home country. Some of them literally vow never to return home.

NOT anything out of the ordinary. The demise of Albert Chinualumogu Achebe is a fact of life. He is now slept forever.

It has been 20 years since the first female condom came on the market but only over 13 years since Malawi launched it, as the only female-initiated preventive measure against unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections, including HIV.

On Sunday March 24, the world came together to commemorate the World TB Day under the theme Stop TB in My Life Time. The World TB Day was designed to build public awareness about the global epidemic and reporter SAM BANDA JNR takes a closer look at the challenge the disease poses on children.

Grace Mbewe, a mother of four from Kadzombe Village in the area of Traditional Authority [T/A], Likoswe, Chiradzulu has a list of chores to do that leaves you in awe.

The world on March 8 every year celebrates the International Women's Day which, originally, was known as International Working Women's Day. The focus of the day involves general celebration of respect, appreciation and love towards women for women's political and social achievements.

It is a split world this country, a tale of two opposite poles of bliss and pain existing side by side, with one dominating the other at times.

Today March 14 is World Kidney Day, observed every second Thursday of March since 2006 .This is to raise awareness of the importance of kidneys to our health and to reduce the frequency and impact of kidney disease and it's associated health problems worldwide.

He has not let disability blind him of achieving success. He hopes to get his degree later this year and readers should expect to read a book entitled "Life from the Sighted to Blindness" which he is writing.

Many of us can fondly remember being raised on traditional washable nappies (thewera).

It was hailed as a revolutionary tool to reduce the burden of carrying goods by the majority of the people in rural areas. The handcart project is still work in progress as both government and development partners have quietly shelved it.

The first thing you notice when you visit a local stadium to watch a football match is miserable poorly dressed boys standing on the edge of the pitch in all the four corner flags.

Milole River was rowdy and enraged the day we visited Masenjere Health Center in T /A Mulolo Nsanje. Too grim for us to cross; yet, less grim than the situation women giving birth at the clinic endure.

Thirty-three year old Zinenani Majawa has been a prostitute since she was twelve years old. Hers wasn't a venture by choice but rather by default.

SEE no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil. This has been the mentality reigning in Sub Traditional Authority (STA) Maoni area under Traditional Authority Nkalo in Chiradzulu.

The controversy is unmistakable. The lie, whether out of differing schools of thought or deliberate ploy to mislead the world, is crystal clear.