National Strategic Framework
Status
Completed (2000-2004)

• 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: [email protected]

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: [email protected] / [email protected]
Website: www.aidsmalawi.org.mw

HIV/AIDS Organisations:

1. Actionaid - Malawi
   P.O. Box 30735, Lilongwe
   Tel: +265 1 757500/04/08
   Fax: +265 1 771 349
   Email: [email protected]
   Website: www.actionaid.org
   · Prevention; care and support, advocacy, outreach; education; counselling.
2. 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: [email protected]
   Website: www.fhi.org
   · Diversified programme of research, education, and services in family health and HIV/AIDS prevention and care.
3. Malawi AIDS Counselling & Resource Organisation (MACRO)
   Contact person: Katawa Hsowoya
   Tel: +265 835 390
   Fax: +265 624 980
   Email: [email protected]
   · Prevention; outreach; education; counselling.
4. Malawi Network of AIDS Service Organisations (MANASO)
   P.O. Box 2916
   Blantrye
   Tel: +265 01 835 018/46
   Email: [email protected]
   · Networking; information sharing, training workshops; grants management aimed at building the capacities of community based organisations.
5. 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: [email protected] / [email protected] / [email protected]
   Website: www.sanaso.org.zw
   · Support groups; information; training programmes; conferences.
6. 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: [email protected]
   · Home-based care; counselling; education; condom promotion; information; support; advocacy.
7. Partners in Hope
   P.O.Box 302
   Lilongwe
   Tel: +265 01 727 155
   Email: [email protected]
   · Clinic with programmes for ARVs; HIV prevention; prevention of mother to child transmission; home-based care.
8. 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: [email protected] / [email protected] / [email protected]
   Website: www.policyproject.com
   · Mobilization of government and communities to prevent HIV/AIDS.
9. Population Services International (PSI)
   P.O. Box 529
   16 Leslie Road
   Blantyre, Malawi
   Tel: +265 1 677 345
   Fax: +265 1 674 138
   Email: [email protected] / [email protected]
   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.
10. 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: [email protected] / [email protected]
    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.
11. 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
12. Umoyo Network
    Private Bag 254
    Blantyre, Malawi
    Tel: +265 621 022 / +265 621 348
    Fax: +265 624 980
    Email: [email protected]
    Website: www.umoyonetwork.org
    · Capacity building in reproductive health and HIV/AIDS of local NGOs in Malawi
13. 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: [email protected]
    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.
14. 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: [email protected]
    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.

For consistency reasons the data used in the above table are taken from official UN publications

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.
Email: [email protected]

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.