Word: malawi
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...Characters speak in several of South Africa's official languages, and the series is subtitled in English. It has been shown in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Nigeria, Namibia, Malawi and Barbados and has been dubbed into French and Portuguese for showing in Ivory Coast, Mozambique and other countries. "This concept has got legs," says Japhet. "It moves...
...Rescue and relief operations were stepped up to help hundreds of thousands of Mozambicans under threat from flood waters sweeping down the Zambezi River following torrential rains over southeastern Africa. At least 60 people have been killed and the raging waters are already affecting tens of thousands in Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique. The floods-which come a year after Mozambique's worst deluges in decades, in which 700 people died-have left more than 80,000 homeless...
Nothing will improve in Africa without a drastic change of attitude. Take Malawi, where the government, which had denied the existence of the disease in the country, has launched an AIDS-awareness campaign. This type of action must eventually take place everywhere in Africa. The West can make it happen faster by declaring that the leaders of the sub-Saharan African countries are guilty of genocide of their own people, and by imposing sanctions right away. CHEM COHEN Vancouver...
Silence and the ignorance it promotes have fed the AIDS epidemic in Africa perhaps more than any other factors. In Malawi, where until the end of dictator Hastings Banda's rule in 1994 women were barred from wearing short skirts and men could be jailed for having long hair, public discussion of AIDS was forbidden. According to the government, AIDS didn't exist inside Malawi. Catherine Phiri, 38, knew otherwise. She tested positive in 1990, after her husband had died of the disease. Forced to quit her job as a nurse when colleagues began to gossip, she sought refuge with...
They do now. According to a lawmaker, AIDS has killed dozens of Members of Parliament in the past decade. And Malawi's government has begun to move. President Bakili Muluzi incorporates AIDS education into every public rally. In 1999 he launched a five-year plan to fight the disease, and last July he ordered a crackdown on prostitution (though the government is now thinking of legalizing it). At the least, his awareness campaign appears to be working: 90% of Malawians know about the dangers of AIDS. But that knowledge comes too late for the estimated 8% of HIV-positive citizens...