MALAWI: Focus on impact of poverty, AIDS on schooling
28 August 2002 (PlusNews ), Poverty, hunger, and AIDS are threatening Malawi's free primary education programme, one of the key reforms introduced by the government which came to power eight years ago.
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MALAWI: Home based care eases pressure on public health sector
5 August 2002 (PlusNews ), Faced with the devastating impact of an HIV/AIDS epidemic compounded by abject poverty, Malawians have eased the pressure on state hospitals by caring for chronically ill family and neighbours at home.
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MALAWI: Leader in TB treatment
17 July 2002 (PlusNews ), Faced with the HIV/AIDS epidemic, deepening malnutrition as a result of a serious food shortage and abject poverty, Malawi has managed to become a model for sub-Saharan Africa in treating tuberculosis (TB), a disease that kills two million people annually.
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MALAWI: HIV/AIDS makes food crisis worse
5 June 2002 (PlusNews ), Malnutrition and hunger in Malawi is more than not having a plate of food to eat. It's a volatile mix of social, health and economic factors and HIV/AIDS has added a dangerous dimension to the country's food crisis.
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MALAWI: Conservative Malawi grapples with sex education
3 June 2002 (PlusNews ), The Malawi Censorship Board has ordered the removal of a controversial condom advertisement that it has declared offensive and pornographic.
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MALAWI: Children with HIV/AIDS might benefit from immunisation
19 September 2001 (PlusNews ), Results of a hospital-based study in Malawi suggest that children infected with HIV/AIDS could potentially benefit from vaccination against rotaviruses, the main cause of severe, dehydrating diarrhoea in infants and young children throughout the world, ‘AIDS Weekly’ reported.
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