Poverty, Aids and Hunger - breaking the poverty trap in Malawi
Friday, 1 December 2006
Poverty, Aids & Hunger - breaking the poverty trap in Malawi
Concern Worldwide has launched a new book exploring the links between poverty, aids and hunger.
The book "Poverty, AIDS and Hunger - breaking the poverty trap in Malawi" describes Malawi's plight as a storm that brings together climatic disaster, poverty, the AIDS pandemic, the long standing burden of malaria and other communicable diseases. Yet the situation is seen to be far from hopeless.
The problems that Africa faces which are demonstrated in sharp relief in Malawi, are difficult but solvable with practical and proven technologies and the book’s authors propose fresh, clear and radical thinking on new avenues and interventions.
Three of the five authors will be attending and speaking at the launch; Malcolm Blackie, expert on Malawian agriculture, Anne Conroy, Irish Aid consultant and advisor in Malawi and Justin Malewezi, former vice president and current member of Malawian parliament and leading champion of the fight against HIV/AIDS in the country.
The other authors are Jeffrey Sachs, Chairman of the United Nations Millennium Project and Alan Whiteside, AIDS researcher and author of many books on the subject. Stephen Lewis, UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa supplied the foreword and the preface was written by Bono.
Concern's support for the book has been driven by our commitment to Malawi's future. We have been working in the country since 2002 and in that time have partnered effectively with Malawian Government ministries and civil society groups, pioneered a new approach to dealing with malnutrition and are now researching how better nutrition can improve the life prospects of people infected by HIV and AIDS.
Tom Arnold CEO of Concern comments, "I want this book to be more than a work of scholarship. I would like its publication, and the discussion of the issues that this will give rise to, to be a catalyst for action."
For further information or to arrange interviews with the authors, please contact Sarah Molloy at Concern Worldwide on ++ 44 20 7960 4694 or sarah.molloy@concern.net
