The CDC GAP office started in November 2001 with an emphasis on establishing long-term working relationships with the Malawi Government, the National AIDS Commission (NAC) and the Ministry of Health (MOH). The major areas of focus during the initial phase included strengthening Voluntary Counseling...
judge selection and term of office:Supreme Court and Constitutional Court judges appointed by the president of the republic upon the advice of the 9-member Judicial Service Commission, which is headed by the chief justice, and ratified by the National Assembly; judges normally serve until age 65...
judge selection and term of office: Supreme Court chief justice appointed by the president and confirmed by the National Assembly; other judges appointed by the president upon the recommendation of the Judicial Service Commission, which regulates judicial officers; judges serve until age 65 subordinate ...
The judicial branch consists of a Supreme Court of Appeal, a High Court, a chief justice appointed by the president, additional judges appointed on the advice of the Judicial Service Commission, and magistrate's courts. The legislative branch is made up of the National Assembly with 177 members...
judge selection and term of office:Supreme Court chief justice appointed by the president and confirmed by the National Assembly; other judges appointed by the president upon the recommendation of the Judicial Service Commission, which regulates judicial officers; judges serve until age 65 ...
The protests were organized by the Malawi's Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) to force Chairperson of the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) Jane Ansah to resign allegedly for mismanaging the May 21 election results which saw Mutharika re-elected. ...
A Lancet Commission recommended that metrics that most matter to patients, such as the quality of care and patient experience, should be considered in evaluating health system quality [81]. In that regard, a study validating a measure of the quality of dying and death in Malawi from the persp...
In 2022, the Government of Malawi through the Ministry of Finance along with the African Union Commission and the Coalition for Dialogue on Africa assessed Malawi’s progress on implementing the recommendations of the aforementioned Mbeki Report. It notes that Malawi has a fairly robust legal and ...
Alleviating the access abyss in palliative care and pain relief—an imperative of universal health coverage: the lancet commission report. Lancet. 2018;391(10128):1391–454. World Health Organization International Agency for Research on Cancer. GLOBOCAN 2020: Africa [fact sheet]. 2021. Available ...
Communication is integral to countering these factors by boosting knowledge, understanding and positive attitudes toward the service and in turn stimulating demand and uptake among Malawian men, boys, parents/guardians and partners [2]. Hence, the Malawi government developed the first VMMC Communication...