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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Fighter In A Land Of Orphans | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

...Malawi President Bakili Muluzi, who traveled with his chef and a rack of native spices MTV Whitney Houston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Worlds Collide | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

...time of his death, he was working on compiling dictionaries of the Lakeside Tonga and Tumbuka languages of Northern Malawi...

Author: By Nathaniel L. Schwartz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Vail Honored at Service | 5/6/1999 | See Source »

Vail held a number of professorships at theUniversities of Malawi, Zambia, and Virginiabefore joining the Harvard faculty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: African History Professor, Vail, Dies | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

Despite his losing battle with lymphoma, Vailcontinued to work on a dictionary of the languageof the Lakeside Tonga people of Malawi...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: African History Professor, Vail, Dies | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

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