Malawi UNGASS Country Report

While surveys continue showing that HIV and AIDS knowledge is almost universal, comprehensive knowledge is still low. Disparities still exist in terms of access to the media with more men and urban people being more exposed to HIV and AIDS information compared to women and rural residents, respectively. Despite these problems, over the period 2005-2006 there has been an increase in the number of IEC materials disseminated to end users and the number of radio and TV programmes. There is, however, lack of comprehensive data collection for some indicators such as number of peer educators trained and re-trained and number of sensitization meetings conducted among other media activities.