Malawi Clinics

One of Africa’s first modern clinics specialising in the treatment of children living with HIV/AIDS opened in Malawi this week. Malawi Health Minister Marjorie Ngaunje said the new Baylor College of Medicine International Paediatric AIDS Initiative would spell hope for the estimated 83,000 Malawi children now living with HIV/AIDS. Read more here.

Also this week, Malawi’s National Aids Commission reported that statistics for HIV/AIDS prevalance in 2007 was 12% - down from 14% in previous years.