MALAWI - Country Profile |
Updated: Feb 2005 |
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National Strategic Framework
Status
Completed (2000-2004) National policies
- National Health Plan and Policy incorporates HIV prevention and mitigation.
- Strategy for Comprehensive Management of HIV/AIDS newly completed.
- National policy on HIV/AIDS finalised June 2003 for parliament's approval by end of year.
Ministry of Health and Population
P.O. Box 30377, Lilongwe 3, Malawi
Tel: +265 1 789 400 / +265 1 788 849 / +265 1 789 195
Fax: +265 1 789 431
Email:
National AIDS Commission of Malawi
Contact person: Dr Bizwick Mwale, Executive Director / Dr Owen Kalua, Director of Programmes
P.O. Box 30622
Lilongwe, Malawi
Tel: +265 1 727 900
Fax: +265 1 843 363 / +265 1 727 398
Email: /
Website: www.aidsmalawi.org.mw
- Prevention work; strengthen the capacity of institutions, communities and individuals to stop the spread of the epidemic and mitigate its impact.
HIV/AIDS Organisations:
- Actionaid - Malawi
P.O. Box 30735, Lilongwe
Tel: +265 1 757500/04/08
Fax: +265 1 771 349
Email:
Website: www.actionaid.org
· Prevention; care and support, advocacy, outreach; education; counselling.
- Family Health International (FHI)
Contact person: Dr Margaret Kaseje - Country Director
House City Center
Arwa House, 3rd Floor/ North Wing
Lilongwe 3, Malawi
Tel: +265 1 775 106
Email:
Website: www.fhi.org
· Diversified programme of research, education, and services in family health and HIV/AIDS prevention and care.
- Malawi AIDS Counselling & Resource Organisation (MACRO)
Contact person: Katawa Hsowoya
Tel: +265 835 390
Fax: +265 624 980
Email:
· Prevention; outreach; education; counselling.
- Malawi Network of AIDS Service Organisations (MANASO)
P.O. Box 2916
Blantrye
Tel: +265 01 835 018/46
Email:
· Networking; information sharing, training workshops; grants management aimed at building the capacities of community based organisations.
- Malawi Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS
Contact person: Victor Kamanga / George Kampango
Private Bag 377
Lilongwe 3, Malawi
Tel: +265 1 773 727
Fax: +265 1 770 194
Email: / /
Website: www.sanaso.org.zw
· Support groups; information; training programmes; conferences.
- National Association of People with HIV/AIDS in Malawi (NAPHAM)
Contact person: Kumbakani Black
Private Bag 355
Lilongwe, Malawi
Tel: +265 1 791 943/ 770 641 / 776343
Fax: +265 1 791 939
Email:
· Home-based care; counselling; education; condom promotion; information; support; advocacy.
- Partners in Hope
P.O.Box 302
Lilongwe
Tel: +265 01 727 155
Email:
· Clinic with programmes for ARVs; HIV prevention; prevention of mother to child transmission; home-based care.
- Policy Project Office
Contact person: Shawn Aldridge / Rita Chilongozi
Amina House, 1st Floor, East, Chilambula Road, Plot 6/14
Private Bag B404
Lilongwe, Malawi
Tel: +265 1 754 130
Mobile: +265 9 222 984
Fax: +265 1 754 127
Email: / /
Website: www.policyproject.com
· Mobilization of government and communities to prevent HIV/AIDS.
- Population Services International (PSI)
P.O. Box 529
16 Leslie Road
Blantyre, Malawi
Tel: +265 1 677 345
Fax: +265 1 674 138
Email: /
Website: www.psi.org
· Uses social marketing to deliver health products, services and information that enable low-income and other vulnerable people to lead healthier lives.
- Southern African AIDS Training Programme (SAT)
Contact person: Dixon Ngwende - SAT Country Program Manager
Private Bag B325, Lilongwe 3, Malawi
Tel: +265 1 774 422 / +265 1 774 427
Fax: +265 1 775 351
Email: /
Website: www.satregional.org
· Supports community responses to HIV and AIDS through in-depth partnership; networking; skills exchange; lesson sharing in HIV prevention, HIV and AIDS care and support throughout the region.
- Salima HIV-AIDS Support Organization (SASO)
Contact person: George Kanyemba
PL Bag 18
Salima, Malawi
Tel: +265 262 821
· Networking; information sharing, training workshops; grants management aimed at building the capacities of community-based organisations
- Umoyo Network
Private Bag 254
Blantyre, Malawi
Tel: +265 621 022 / +265 621 348
Fax: +265 624 980
Email:
Website: www.umoyonetwork.org
· Capacity building in reproductive health and HIV/AIDS of local NGOs in Malawi
- UN Theme Group on HIV/AIDS, Chair
Contact person: Esperance Fundira
UNFPA Representative
P.O. Box 30135, Lilongwe 3
Malawi
Tel: +265 1 771 444/ 474/ 828
Mobile: +265 8 828 154
Fax: +265 1 771 402
Email:
Website: www.unfpa.org
· Supports an expanded response and policy advice on preventing transmission of HIV, providing care and support, reducing the vulnerability of individuals and communities to HIV/AIDS.
- UNAIDS
Country Programme Adviser
Contact person: Mr Erasmus Morah
P.O. Box 30135, Lilongwe 3
Malawi
Tel: +265 1 773 329/927
Mobile: +265 9 960 130
Fax: +265 1 773 992
Email:
Website: www.unaids.org
· UNAIDS leads, strengthens and supports an expanded response aimed at preventing transmission of HIV, providing care and support, reducing the vulnerability of individuals and communities to HIV/AIDS.
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Country Indicators |
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Demographic data |
Year |
Estimate |
Source |
Total population (thousands) |
2004 |
12,337 |
UN population division database |
Female population aged 15-24 (thousands) |
2004 |
1212 |
UN population division database |
Population aged 15-49 (thousands) |
2004 |
5356 |
UN population division database |
Annual population growth rate (%) |
1992-2002 |
1.9 |
UN population division database |
% of urban population |
2003 |
16.1 |
UN population division database |
Average annual growth rate of urban population |
2000-2005 |
4.58 |
UN population division database |
Crude birth rate (births per 1,000 pop.) |
2004 |
43.6 |
UN population division database |
Crude death rate (deaths per 1,000 pop.) |
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24.2 |
UN population division database |
Maternal mortality rate (per 100,000 live births) |
2000 |
1800 |
WHO (WHR2004)/UNICEF |
Life expectancy at birth (years)/td> |
2002 |
40.2 |
World Health Report 2004, WHO |
Total fertility rate |
2002 |
6.1 |
World Health Report 2004, WHO |
Infant mortality rate (per 1,000 live births) |
2000 |
117 |
World Health Report 2004, WHO |
Under 5 mortality rate (per 1,000 live births) |
2000 |
197 |
World Health Report 2004, WHO |
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For consistency reasons the data used in the above table are taken from official UN publications
Socio-economic data |
Year |
Estimate |
Source |
Gross national income, ppp, per capita (Int.$) |
2002 |
570 |
UN population division database |
Gross domestic product, per capita % growth |
2001-2002 |
-0.3 |
World Bank |
Per capita total expenditure on health (Int.$) |
2001 |
39 |
World Health Report 2004, WHO |
General government expenditure on health as % of total expenditure on health |
2001 |
35 |
World Health Report 2004, WHO |
Total adult illiteracy rate |
2000 |
39.9 |
UNESCO |
Adult male illiteracy rate |
2000 |
25.5 |
UNESCO |
Adult female illiteracy rate |
2000 |
53.5 |
UNESCO |
Gross primary school enrolment ratio, male |
2000/2001 |
not available |
UNESCO |
Gross primary school enrolment ratio, female |
1995 |
not available |
UNESCO |
Gross secondary school enrolment ratio, male |
1995 |
40 |
UNESCO |
Gross secondary school enrolment ratio, female |
1995 |
31 |
UNESCO |
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For consistency reasons the data used in the above table are taken from official UN publications
Source: WHO/UNAIDS epidemiological fact sheets on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections, 2004 Update.
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Epidemiological Fact Sheet |
Estimated number of adults and children living with HIV/AIDS, end of 2003 |
These estimates include all people with HIV infection, whether or not they have developed symptoms of AIDS, alive at the end of 2003: |
Adults and children |
900,000 |
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Adults (15-49) |
810,000 |
Adult rate(%) 14.2 |
Women (15-49) |
460,000 |
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Children (0-15) |
83,000 |
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Estimated number of deaths due to AIDS |
Estimated number of adults and children who died of AIDS during 2003: |
Deaths in 2003 |
84,000 |
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Estimated number of orphans |
Estimated number of children who have lost their mother or father or both parents to AIDS and who were alive and under age 17 at the end of 2003: |
Current living orphans |
500,000 |
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Assessment of the epidemiological situation (2004)
HIV seroprevalence information among antenatal clinic attendees is available since the mid-1980s from Malawi. In Malawi, Lilongwe, Blantyre and Mzuzu are the major urban areas. From 1985 to 1993, HIV seroprevalence among antenatal women increased from 2 percent to 30 percent. In 1998, 26 percent of antenatal clinic attendees tested HIV positive. By 2001, HIV prevalence had fallen to 20 percent and remained around 21 percent in 2003.
Outside of major urban areas, HIV prevalence among antenatal women tested increased from 6 percent in 1992 to 22 percent in 1999. HIV prevalence among antenatal women tested in 16 sites in 1999 ranged from 3 percent in Kasungu to 36 percent in Mulanje. In 2001, median HIV prevalence outside major urban areas fell to 16 percent and was 17.5 percent in 2003.
In 1999, 23 percent of the women less than 15-24 years of age were HIV positive. By 2001 prevalence in this age group had fallen to 17. In 2003, 18 percent of women aged 15-24 attending antenatal clinics tested HIV positive.
In 1986, 56 percent of sex workers tested in Blantyre were HIV positive. In 1994, 70 percent of sex workers tested in Lilongwe were HIV positive.
Over 50 percent of STD clinic patients tested in the major urban areas between 1989 and 1996 were HIV positive. In 1995, 46 percent of STD clinic patients tested at seven sites outside of the major urban areas were HIV positive.
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