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A beacon of hope to the adolescents
Fifteen-year-old Chikondi (not her real name) discovered she was HIV positive in July of this year, a life-altering revelation that has transformed her into an outspoken advocate for positive living and healthy lifestyles among youth in her community. “I never knew I was positive,” Chikondi shared, reflecting on h...
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Assisting HIV patients with mental health challenges
Fiona was a curious case for staff and community health workers at Chambe Health Centre in Mulanje. She was an antiretroviral therapy (ART) client who had transferred from another health centre at Kambenje in the same district. From time to time, she would visit the healthcare centre to collect her supply of medic...
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Counselling keeps sero-discordant couples together
Prior to March 2023, not much had been going on well for Madalitso (not real name). “My husband did not know I was HIV positive. I first knew this status when I took my first child, who was almost one-and-a-half years old, to the health centre where a routine check revealed I was HIV positive. The child’s result c...
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Continuous testing key to preventing HIV infections in mothers
In 2021, Gertrude's world transformed into a whirlwind of happiness as she got married to a man of her dreams, setting her heart ablaze with excitement. However, it didn't take much time for her marital bliss to crumble, leaving her trapped in a living nightmare of emotional abuse. Desperate for a way out, she rea...
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Mothers defy Cyclone to sustain HIV treatment
In March this year, Cyclone Freddy dumped heavy torrents on Southern Malawi, triggering landslides and flooding that disrupted the livelihoods of more than 2.2 million people in 14 districts. Huge rocks rolling downhill ripped homes and crop fields in Nanchidwa village at the foot of Mount Mulanje. Four months on,...
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Lifesavers take disrupted services to disaster zones
It's 9am and a forming crowd perching in tree shades at Dulasanje Health Post in Chikwawa is waiting for healthcare workers and supplies coming to their hilly community in southern Malawi. On arrival, the healthcare team offer a public talk on all available services, including family planning, treatment for common...
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For every child survive and thrive
Malawi is one of the world’s poorest countries, ranked 172 out of 189 countries listed on the Human Development Index in 2019.1 Some 71 per cent of the population live on less than US$1.90 per day, 2 and most people in rural communities are subsistence farmers. An estimated 61 per cent of children aged 0–17 years ...
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New global alliance launched to end AIDS in children by 2030
MONTREAL/GENEVA/NEW YORK, 1 August 2022, – Globally, only half (52%) of children living with HIV are on life-saving treatment, far behind adults where three quarters (76%) are receiving antiretrovirals, according to the data that has just been released in the UNAIDS Global AIDS Update 2022. Concerned by the stalli...
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2021 Global Snapshot on HIV & AIDS
With a new Political Declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in June 2021,this year’s World AIDS Day will be observed with a renewed sense of commitment to reach the 95-95-95 targets, as we begin the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic and the fifth decade of the AIDS pandemic. The new targets u...
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A child was infected with HIV every two minutes in 2020 – UNICEF
Lilongwe/New York -, At least 300,000 children across the globe were newly infected with HIV in 2020, or one child every two minutes, according to a new UNICEF report. Another 120,000 children died from AIDS-related causes during the same period, or one child every five minutes. The latest HIV and AIDS Global Sna...
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Improving sexual and reproductive health and HIV services for adolescents and young people
Joint message from UNICEF Malawi Representative Rudolf Schwenk, UNFPA Representative Won Young Hong, WHO Representative Dr Nonhlanhla Rose Dlamini and UNAIDS Country Director Nuha Ceesay. When 15-year-old Nancy’s parents found out she was pregnant, they immediately arranged for her to marry her boyfriend. Nancy dr...
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From one mother to another
Awema Chimenya is a brave, resilient woman. She has been a mentor mother since 2019, helping other HIV-positive women deliver healthy HIV negative babies just like she did. As a mentor mother, she links HIV-positive young mothers to nearby health centres for medical care, sexual reproductive health services and i...