Youth HIV advocates warn that poverty and lack of access leave Malawian girls at high risk of HIV, calling for holistic programmes addressing inequality, services, and education are urgently needed to protect young women.
Malawi’s rollout of the new twice-a-year HIV prevention injection has stalled, leaving fishermen, migrant workers and other high-risk groups waiting longer for protection as funding cuts and regulatory delays slow progress.
This year’s World AIDS Day has been decentralised to five districts as Malawi turns its attention to men—now the weakest link in HIV testing—while civil society warns that shrinking donor funding could reverse years of progress.
