In relation to Blantyre (Reuters: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050201/wl_nm/aids_malawi_dc_1  ) – AIDS kills about 10 people every hour (240 people every day) in Malawi and the government of the impoverished southern African nation is increasingly unable to cope with the crisis, Health Minister Heatherwick Ntaba said.

Malawi, with a population of about 11 million, is one of the countries at the centre of the AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa, which is home to almost two-thirds of those infected with HIV/AIDS worldwide. The government estimates that about 1 million Malawians are infected with the HIV virus and about 640,000 have died from AIDS-related causes since 1985. Research by Malawi's Health Ministry shows that about 46 percent of all new adult infections occur in people younger than 24 with about 60 percent of them being girls. Ntaba said poverty, lack of recreational facilities and high unemployment were some of the factors driving particularly girls into early and unsafe sex or marriage. Ntaba said Malawi's health sector was struggling because many medical professionals leave for better paying jobs overseas and others die from AIDS, leaving some 90 percent of physicians' posts and 35 percent of nurses' jobs in the country vacant.

 WELL , BUT WHY,WHO IS TO BLAME REALLY ?:

*Ntaba has said how he knows it(Religious politicism)

*I am of the opinion that its becoz of global warming....

*And who says what?

....Its sad last time we goofed on HIV/AIDS discussion, panopa tisataye khiyi, hey just peep into what malawilistings.com is done.....No gossiping , fussing and fighting.