Using the experiences of Malawi, one of the poorest countries on the African continent, to illustrate both the challenges that poverty creates, and the opportunities for change that exist. Poverty, AIDS and Hunger outlines an easily-replicable model, at modest cost, that could lift people quickly out of poverty, with sustainable benefits.

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Cover
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 The History of Development and Crisis in Malawi
Chapter 2 Health and Disease in Malawi
Chapter 3 The AIDS Crisis
Chapter 4 The Impact of the AIDS Pandemic on the National Economy and Development
Chapter 5 The Collapse of Agriculture
Chapter 6 Economic Isolation
Chapter 7 Malawi and the Poverty Trap – A First Person Account
Chapter 8 Breaking Out of the AIDS and Disease Crisis
Chapter 9 Breaking Out of Food Insecurity
Chapter 10 Breaking Out of Economic Isolation and the Poverty Trap
Chapter 11 Changing Mindsets
Chapter 12 Ending Extreme Poverty in Malawi
Afterword
Index

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