The Minister of Health and Sanitation Honorable Madalitso Baloyi,MP has officially opened the 2024/2025 Integrated Joint Annual Review (JAR) of the health sector and the National Response to HIV and AIDS with a call for all the public health facilities to consider opening separate paying services to increase resource mobilization and improve health service delivery....
Author: Grace Khombe (Grace Khombe)
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MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND NATIONAL AIDS COMMISSION TO HOLD THE 2ND INTERGRATED JOINT ANNUAL REVIEW MEETING OF THE PUBLIC SECTOR
This week from 22nd to 23rd January 2026, the Ministry of Health in collaboration with the National AIDS Commission will hold the 2024/2025 Integrated Joint Annual Review (JAR) of the health sector and the National Response to HIV and AIDS. The event will take place at Crossroads Hotel in Lilongwe. The 2nd Integrated Joint Annual...
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NO BUSINESS AS USUAL! NAC EMPOWERS FIVE DISTRICT COUNCILS TO LEAD IN THE LAUNCH OF WORLD AIDS DAY AND INTERNATIONAL AIDS CANDLELIGHT MEMORIAL JOINT COMMEMORATIONS
Excitement and sense of empowerment characterized this year’s World AIDS Day (WAD) and International AIDS Candlelight Memorial (IACM) joint commemoration in Malawi with five local councils taking lead in the organization of this years’ joint event. The five district councils are Nkhatabay, Northern part of Malawi, Salima and Lilongwe Central part of Malawi, Blantyre and...
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UNAIDS, AMBASSADORS, GOVERNMENT,NAC AND CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS HAVE PLEDGED NOT TO RELENT IN THEIR EFFORTS AND SUPPORT TO SUSTAIN GAINS MADE IN MALAWI ‘S HIV NATIONAL RESPONSE
That’s a strong commitment pronounced by the Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Health Benson Chisamile, on behalf of the Minister of Health in the statement delivered on 1st December 2025 at the Breakfast Roundtable Discussion on UN-Joint programme of Support on HIV Response in Malawi. The statement marked the opening of the UN Joint...
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African Experts and Global Partners Launch The Lancet HIV & The Lancet Global Health Joint Series on Sustainable HIV Prevention in Africa, Calling for a New Era in HIV Response
December 2, 2025 A new, groundbreaking six-paper series from The Lancet HIV and The Lancet Global Health journals, co-authored by more than two dozen African and global experts, outlines a roadmap for sustainable, nationally led HIV prevention across the continent. December 3, 2025 — At the 2025 International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA), Malawi’s...
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MALAWI JOINS THE WORLD IN OBSERVING THE WORLD AIDS DAY TODAY; NATIONAL AIDS COMMISSION LEADS IN THE OFFICIAL LAUNCH IN FIVE DISTRICTS
Today 1st December Malawi joins the Global community in observing the World AIDS Day (WAD). In Malawi the 2025 WAD commemoration has incorporated the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial (IACM). Globally the World AIDS Day is themed Overcoming Disruption, transforming the AIDS response. However locally the theme for this year`s joint event is ‘We Remember, We...
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MALAWI TRANSITION REPORT BY CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS HAS BEEN LAUNCHED; NAC SAYS TIME TO RETHINK HOW TO MANAGE NATIONAL HIV RESPONSE
The National AIDS Commission (NAC)Chief Executive Officer Dr. Beatrice Matanje has officially launched the Civil Society Advocacy Forum’s Transition Initiative Report. Among others, the report highlights the profound impact of recent funding shifts, especially funding cuts from the US Government, which has historically contributed significantly to Malawi’s national HIV budget. Speaking at the launching ceremony...