Malawi has been one of the few low-income countries to achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) for child survival (Kanyuka et al, 2016). The country is rightly considered a global success story in this area, given its wealth and resource constraints. Malawi has reduced under-5 mortality by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015 from 234 deaths to 63 deaths per 1000 live births
in 2015–16. This has been achieved by a series of community level interventions to address the major causes of child death
and includes vaccinations drives, bed nets, supplementary nutrition programs, diarrhea and malaria treatment and prevention
and treatment of HIV (Kanyuka et al, 2016).