At Grand Ward Rounds today they discussed a tragic story of a 45 year-old gravida 9 and para 7 woman from Mozambque who used a local herb...

This morning I spotted the mother pig with her ten piglets which had grown three times as big since I last saw them. A little girl ran...

My office is in the Nsanje District Hospital (NDH) with the mentors whom I supervise. Here there is no WI-FI and I have to wind my way...

Kalemba is about 46 km north of Nsanje, it is a Catholic community hospital and like Trinity it is better maintained than the government...

We could go to Blantyre twice a month to get away from Nsanje. Blantyre is the commercial center of Malawi. It has been over a month for...

Today marks exactly one month after I left home. Since I have some much briefings and materials thrown at me, I feel I am still learning...

We traveled to Tengani again today to observe their ART Clinic but it turned out it was not an ART day so we traveled further north to...

The reputation of Trinity as a well-kept place precedes my visit. It is a Catholic hospital and a paying one. Because of that there are...

In the morning I ran up the steep hill behind the lodge until I reached the top of a ridge, running into villagers young and old carrying...

On my run this morning a big black mommy pig grunted twice as she crossed my path followed very quickly by ten black cute piglets. I am...

This being Saturday, I had time to do a long run and so I ran to Chididi. The locals have been slashing and burning their land preparing...

We traveled south today to Mbenji Health Center. Like all the other health centers I have visited, it is basically an H-shaped structure...

Nyamithuthu is about 30 km north of Nsanje, 5 to 7 km from Tengani. It sits on the side of a dirt road after we turned off from the...

My team went to Tengani, about half an hour north of here. We passed through grasslands with scattered tall trees fortunate enough to...

It has been a very quiet three-day weekend for me, relaxing and not yet swarming with work like the other ladies who seem to be working...

We had a day off for the end of Ramadan, Eid-Al-Fatr, the actual date was determined by the observation of the new moon by local...

Today I traveled to Ndamera with a group of MSF staffers including my MSF mentors and a Ministry of Health (MOH) mentor. This was my...

A headline in the July 31st issue of the newspaper “The Nation” ominously announces: Food Insecurity to Rise in Malawi. The population...

Malawi is a landlocked narrow country bordered on the western side by Lake Malawi. It is the most resource-limited country in southern...

Nsanje is at the tip of Malawi at its southernmost region, remote and isolated and the lowest point is 200 meters above sea level which...