Topic: Malawi
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Southern African countries, hardest hit by the HIV/AIDS pandemic, are likely to be most affected over the next three years as funding from one of the world's biggest donors dries up, a coalition of AIDS activists said Monday.The Global ...
Some 14 Malawians sex workers arrested by police and forced to undergo HIV tests two years ago have sued the government for "unfair action and violating their privacy", a high court official told AFP Sunday.The prostitutes, who all tested positive, filed for ...
African ministers on Friday hailed a lowering of mother-to-child HIV transmission rates as a result of treatment at a meeting in Rome on Friday, a day after a study found key benefits from early therapy."The vertical transmission of the virus from mother ...
Malawi, where 12 percent of population is HIV-positive, adopts new UN AIDS guidelinesMalawi's vice president says her AIDS-ravaged southern African country will adopt the latest U.N. health guidelines that call for putting HIV-positive people on drugs sooner.That means some 500,000 Malawians could ...
Malawi rules out circumcision as AIDS-prevention strategy, says no evidence it worksTwo government officials in Malawi say the southern African nation will not officially promote male circumcision as an HIV-prevention strategy as they say there isn't enough evidence to support it.Principal Secretary ...
A report that a microbicidal gel nearly halved infection rates among several hundred South African women has dominated news coverage of this week's International AIDS meeting in Vienna, Austria.. "It's a game changer," Bruce Walker, an AIDS expert at Harvard Medical School ...
The World Bank released two studies Sunday linking cash payments to Malawian and Tanzanian youths with "significantly lower" rates of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.In the first study, a two-year program rewarded young girls in Malawi, rife with poverty and high ...
Thomas Mukone wonders exactly how he would tell his wife that he wants a circumcision at age 41, even with the government in Zimbabwe urging adult men to get snipped to slow the spread of AIDS."It's not easy to discuss this as ...
Studies of the relationship between HIV/AIDS and children's educational attainment largely focus on the direct impacts of parental illness and death, overlooking the potential indirect impact that parental knowledge and perceptions of their HIV status may have on children's school enrollment. Drawing ...
Malawi's President Bingu wa Mutharika pardoned a gay couple jailed for 14 years after holding a same-sex wedding, following talks with UN chief Ban Ki-moon."I have decided that with effect from today, they are pardoned and they will be released," Mutharika told ...
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World Summit
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, center, joins Malawi's President Bingu wa ...AP News - -
Malawi Gays Pardoned
FILE - In this photo taken Thursday May, 20, 2010 file photo, Tiwonge ...AP News - -
Malawi Gay Trial
Tiwonge Chimbalanga, right, and Steven Monjeza, left back, are led from court ...AP News -
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Lake Malawi Cichlids HD(Part1)
www.earth-touch.com The 'Malawi butterfly' puts on an electrifying ...2011-07-30 -
NTV investigates in Malawi marijuana farms
John Allan Namu crosses the Tanzanian border into the hilly ...2010-09-10 -
Kande Beach - Malawi
Kande Beach on Lake Malawi, Malawi, Africa. A quick look ...2011-07-17
