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Facts about Malawi

The average person in.......

  JAPAN MALAWI
earns US $34,630 pa US $170 pa
life expectancy 80 years 41 years
infant mortality (per 1,000) 4 147
access to health services 100%  38%
TVs / 100 people 68  nil

...... From ‘Forever in Your Debt’, Christian Aid, 1998.

 

The men work in the cities whilst their families try to survive in remote and inaccessible villages in the countryside. When visiting home men bring a sinister ‘gift’ from the cities to their wives, the AIDS virus.

The wives have no means of protecting themselves from this deadly illness. As a result even the remotest areas have a rapidly growing number of orphans, whose only support are either elderly grandparents or distant relatives if they are fortunate, or no one if they’re not.

Up-date 2003:
In the year 2001 the average life expectancy of a Malawian has dropped to 37 years!