Malawi
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Malawi HIV/AIDS Action Framework 2005 - 2009
The National HIV/AIDS Strategic Framework expired at the end of October 2004, necessitating the development of a new National HIV/AIDS Action Framework to guide the national response. This National HIV/AIDS Action Framework (NAF) 2005 - 2009 is a culmination of the End of Term Review of the National Strategic Framework (NSF). While the review acknowledged the achievements during the past five years, it also recognised the challenges and the gaps in the response. These gaps exist in service coverage for HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support.
The biggest challenge is to translate universal awareness of HIV/AIDS into behaviour change. Despite awareness of the modes of HIV transmission, during the past five years prevalence rates have stabilised but remained high. Moreover, mitigation interventions have largely remained undeveloped, and treatment is an emerging, critical issue that needs to be addressed.
Success Story - Towards Universal Access to Comprehensive Sexual & Reproductive Health Services: Malawi's Implementation of MPoA: Summarised Report
Why Document Malawi?
This report aims to articulate the positive lessons that are emerging from Malawi as Government operationalizes the Maputo Plan of Action which it domesticated in 2007. The report discusses lessons learnt from Government’s programmes and interventions that are aimed at achieving the SRH related targets that it has set for itself in the Roadmap for Accelerating the Reduction of Maternal and Neonatal Mortality and Morbidity in Malawi (2007) .
MALAWI: No money, no services
JOHANNESBURG, 1 July 2009 (PlusNews) - An inability to access adequate funding is crippling efforts by community-based organisations (CBOs) to help some of Malawi's most vulnerable children.
A Study of the Outcomes of the Take-Home Food Rations for OVCs in Comunities Affected by AIDS in Malawi: Research Report
A Study of the Outcomes of the Take-Home Food Rations for OVCs in Comunities Affected by AIDS in Malawi, UNICEF, WFP, IDS, Research for Equity and Community Health Trust (Malawi), May 2008
This research project was developed to answer the question of whether and how take-home food rations, delivered through schools and conditional on school attendance, can improve the lives and prospects for vulnerable children, their carers and other household members in communities heavily affected by AIDS. The study also aims to inquire into whether any aspects of the programmes may inadvertently compromise the welfare of some children, or fail to reach or meet the needs of certain intended beneficiaries, or equally/more vulnerable children who are not currently targeted. The specific purpose of the study was to research the outcomes of take-home food rations (THR) programmes, supported by the World Food Programme (WFP), in terms of whether and how they benefit children and their carers in areas related to food security, and educational and family support for the child.
Malawi Directory of Development Organisations
Guide to International Organisations, Governments, Private Sector, Development Agencies, Civil Society, Universities, Banks,, Microfinance Institutions and Development Consulting Firms
Malawi National Strategic Framework 2000 - 2004
According to the United Nations Population Division, Malawi's population in 1999 was 10,640,000. Adults, aged 15 to 49, the group most likely to engage in high-risk behavior for HIV infection, represented approximately 44 percent of the total population. The HIV prevalence rate among this group was estimated by UNAIDS to be 15.96 percent. By the end of 1999, 800,000 adults and children were living with HIV and AIDS in Malawi and more than 390,000 children had been orphaned due to AIDS.
In response to the epidemic, Malawi developed and implemented the National Strategic Framework for HIV/AIDS, 2000-2004. According to our overview of this plan, Malawi has developed strategies and programs in 17 different areas to address the epidemic. Some examples of those activities are programs that focus on illiteracy, human rights, substance abuse, children, orphans, and mother-to-child transmission of HIV. Special programs have been developed to target youth, media, and widow and widowers.
