Banja La Mtsogolo (BLM) - Zingwangwa Clinic

Banja La Mtsogolo (BLM) Zingwangwa Clinic is a clinic in Zingwangwa Township, Blantyre, Malawi, run by Banja La Mtsogolo, the Malawi programme of MSI Reproductive Choices and a provider of sexual and reproductive health services. The Pharmacy and Medicines Regulatory Authority's dispensing licence register records licence PMPB/DL/333, issued on 11 December 2009 to "Zingwangwa BLM Clinic", located near Zingwangwa market. The Ministry of Health's Master Health Facility Registry lists it as BLM Zingwangwa Clinic (facility code BT240105), and the national Master Health Facility List classes it as an urban clinic in Blantyre district, South West zone, managed by a non-governmental organisation. According to MSI Reproductive Choices, Banja La Mtsogolo was established in 1987 to expand access to sexual and reproductive health and rights in Malawi and to support efforts to reduce unsafe abortion and high maternal mortality. MSI describes BLM as Malawi's largest non-profit provider of sexual and reproductive health services, delivering care across 28 districts and providing 65% of the country's contraceptive services. Across its network, BLM offers short-acting and long-acting reversible contraception, permanent methods, post-abortion care, maternal and child health services, cervical cancer screening, and testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections including HIV. These services are described for the network as a whole. MSI Reproductive Choices, known until 2020 as Marie Stopes International, is a British-based international organisation providing contraception and safe abortion services in many countries. Blantyre was founded in 1876 through the missionary work of the Church of Scotland and is Malawi's centre of finance and commerce and its second-largest city. Opening hours, fees and the services available at the Zingwangwa clinic have not been published online. BLM's national line, as given by MSI Reproductive Choices, is 1131, with WhatsApp on +265 880 185 060; patients are advised to call before travelling.

Zingwangwa Township, Blantyre, Malawi
Blantyre

Near Zingwangwa market

15°49′6″S 35°0′43″E

• Medicine dispensing