Lilongwe District

MALAWI: ARVs, good nutrition perform wonders

irinnews.org     01-Sep-2008   1 related          

LILONGWE, 1 September 2008 (IRIN) - AIDS-related deaths in Malawi have dropped by 75 percent over the last four years, thanks to the availability of free antiretroviral (ARV) drugs, but better nutrition for people living...                    

World Bank Injects US$50 Million into the Malawi Social Action Fund ..

nieuwsbank.nl     09-Jul-2008   2 related          

Donderdag 3 juli 2008 | World Bank ] LILONGWE, July 3, 2008 - The World Bank will continue to support the Malawi Social Action Fund (MASAF) with an injection of US$50 million approved by the Bank's Board of Directors at the end...                    

World Bank funds Malawi agribusiness firm

xinhuanet.com     04-Jul-2008   3 related          

LILONGWE, July 4 (Xinhua) -- The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector financing arm of the World Bank, has availed a 5 million U.S. dollar loan to a Malawian private agribusiness firm, a statement issued...                    

HEALTH-MALAWI: Water Woes in Model Hospital

ipsnews.net     27-Jun-2008   3 related          

LILONGWE, Jun 23 (IPS) - Gladys Mawera's face is contorted with pain – both she and her newborn baby survived a complicated birth three days ago, but she has not been able to take the painkillers and antibiotics prescribed to...                    

Selling your body in Malawi is not a lucrative business

mg.co.za     07-Jun-2008   1 related          

Ellen Machemba has a mop of curly hair and vivacious eyes, though at the moment they are troubled. Her legs are curled under her as we sit on a rush mat outside a friend's house in Mchessi, an area of rutted earth roads and...                    

From despair to fragile hope

guardian.co.uk     07-Jun-2008          

Five years ago a Guardian supplement, Saving Grace, told the story of a young Malawi woman with HIV facing almost certain death. Life, for women like Grace in Malawi and all over sub-Saharan Africa where free treatment is...                    

Sarah Boseley meets members of a theatre group in Malawi dedicated to helping women put the...

guardian.co.uk     03-Jun-2008          

Ellen Machemba, a sex worker in Lilongwe, Malawi. It's a story that you hear time and again among the unskilled, uneducated women of Malawi. And it is not a way out – women like Ellen who frequent the bars at night run big...                    

MALAWI: Success in reducing HIV rate

irinnews.org     30-May-2008   15 related          

LILONGWE, 30 May 2008 (IRIN) - When Pastor Gilbert Momola told the audience at Civo Stadium in Malawi's capital, Lilongwe, that he was HIV positive, he touched the hearts of many, including that of retired Zambian president Kenneth...                    

Malawi: Carbon Credits Could Fund Development

allafrica.com     29-May-2008   3 related          

Posted to the web 29 May 2008 Lilongwe An initiative to improve the health, wealth and environment of Malawians is being driven by a proposal to trade in carbon credits. The concept is to trade carbon credits earned by curbing the effects of climate change through mechanisms established under the...                    

Malawi approves Madonna adoption

reuters.co.uk     28-May-2008   131 related          

LILONGWE (Reuters) - A Malawian court ruled on Wednesday that Madonna could adopt a baby boy she met in an orphanage in the impoverished southern African nation, a lawyer for the star said. ... Madonna's adoption of David Banda has been controversial, critics accusing...                    

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