Cholera, Mpox, and Marburg Training.
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Moses Nyambalo Phiri in collaboration with Chriswell Nkoloma and Settie Kanyanda.
In a proactive approach to enhance the country’s response to public health emergencies, the Public Health Institute of Malawi (PHIM), with support from AMREF, conducted crucial training sessions in Karonga and Chitipa districts. These sessions focused on cholera, Mpox, and Marburg.
These activities aim to ensure that healthcare workers can effectively manage cases, strengthen surveillance and contact tracing, improve laboratory diagnostics, and educate communities on preventive measures for Mpox, Marburg, and Cholera.
From May 6th to 7th, 2025, Public Health Emergency Management Committees and District Rapid Response Teams in the two districts were refreshed on their roles and responsibilities. Subsequently, from May 8th to 14th, frontline healthcare workers, including clinicians, nurses, health surveillance assistants, laboratory staff, and data clerks, received specialized training on sample collection, clinical case management, data reporting etc.
Mr. Chriwell Nkoloma presenting on Mpox Global Overview and Malawi Situation to the Chitipa DRRT.
Officers from the national level, comprising experts from various pillars such as Case Management, Surveillance, Laboratory, IPC, Vaccination, RCCE, and Points of Entry, facilitated the PHEMC and DRRT meetings. District-level staff then conducted further orientations for healthcare workers at the facility level, with participation from the Department of Animal Health and Livestock development personnel.
The training of frontline health care workers was conducted in 5 sessions for Karonga and 4 sessions for Chitipa, with 181 and 125 participants, respectively.
“Karonga and Chitipa districts are the first ever districts to have their frontline health workers trained on Mpox and Marburg, so the future plan is to reach out to all the districts in Malawi with this training.” Remarks from Hester Mkwinda Nyasulu, Amref Country Director – Malawi.
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