Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV: A Tale of Two Families
MAY 2010 — Out of a population of 12 million, almost 1 million people in Malawi are living with HIV. Every year, an estimated 30,000 babies are born with HIV. With the provision of PMTCT services, infection rates could be reduced to less than 5 percent. FHI and the Abbott Fund are supporting the scale-up of PMTCT services in Malawi, aiming to drastically increase PMTCT coverage in Malawi.
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Helping Caregivers Support Malawi's Most Vulnerable Children
MARCH 2009 — 100 caregivers in Malawi's Salima District can now move more quickly from one place and one child to another and reach more children with the support they need thanks to a donation of bicycles from The Funders' Collaborative for Children. FHI is working with FCFC to strengthen the provision of comprehensive care and support services for the district's nearly 30,000 orphans and other vulnerable children.
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HIV/AIDS Care and Support Project
Implementing comprehensive care and support services for the chronically ill and for orphans and vulnerable children in Malawi (2 page PDF, 1.35 MB)
HIV Prevention Trials Network
FHI works with U.S.-based researchers through the HIV Prevention Trials Network and its HIV Prevention Trials Units in Malawi.
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AUGUST 2010 — This year FHI worked with the Ministry of Health to evaluate a pilot program in Malawi, where Health Surveillance Assistants (HSAs) provided the injectable contraceptive, depot-medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA). Requested by USAID, the evaluation sought to help the MOH decide whether the pilot program should be scaled up.
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Research brief (summary of evaluation results, PDF, 315 KB)
Through our partners, such as the Abbott Fund, the Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), the Funders' Collaborative for Children (FCFC), KNCV, the National AIDS Commission, and USAID, FHI supports Malawi and its organizations in preventing HIV and improving care and support.
FHI/Malawi staff, March 2009.
FHI/Malawi is here to help. If you want to learn more about the office, visit the Contact Web page.
