The Global Aids Interfaith Alliance—GAIA says it has put in place measures that will help woo nurses to remain in their profession locally.

Late motherhood is said to be contributing to increased cases of children with Down’s syndrome. According to District Health Officer for Blantyre, Medson Matchaya, a lot of women who marry after the child bearing age are more likely to give birth to a child with Down’s syndrome.

People of Ntcheu have cried foul that despite being situated in their district Mpira Dam does not benefit them in any way.

One of the Malawi climate change experts has hailed members of the communities living in the Dowa Hills for the use of their indigenous knowledge in relation to the life cycle, harvesting, processing, marketing and storage of edible caterpillars locally known as mphalabungu.