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Political, Economic Tensions In Malawi Threaten New HIV/AIDS Strategy
In a guest post on the GlobalPost's "Global Pulse" blog, Janet Fleischman, a senior associate at the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, describes the Malawian government's "plans to launch a 'test and treat' program in which all HIV-infected pregnant women will immediately be put on antiretroviral treatment (ART) drugs for life." But she adds that "[t]he growing political and economic crisis in Malawi, highlighted by the government's use of force against peaceful demonstrators last week, could also imperil the groundbreaking expansion of Malawi's national HIV/AIDS program."
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