Promoting Health: Strategies to Address HIV in Malawi

Promoting Health

TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Health promotion need in Malawi...............................................................................................3
Current influences on this problem..............................................................................................4
Current policies for preventing people from this health issue (612)...........................................6
Current barriers to addressing this health issue in policy............................................................8
Potential health promotion interventions to address this issue....................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Health promotion is a process of making people able to control over and improving their
health (Jennings and Bamkole, 2019). This present study is based on Malawi, a landlocked
country in South-eastern Africa. Today, this part of South Africa has multi party republic and
democratic and it is among the world’s least developed country and health issues in this country
is increasing mortality rate. This study is going to discuss prevalence of HIV in this country and
reasons of increasing HIV rates. It will further discuss some current HIV prevention policies
such as: availability and usage of condoms, sex education to adults and others. Along with this, it
will show some barriers by which all these current policies of Malawi become fail such as:
poverty, lack of availability of resources and others. It will then suggest some better strategies by
which Malawi can decrease HIV rate and can prevent people from this health issue.
Health promotion need in Malawi
Health promotion refers to the procedure that has been taken in account in order to add
effectiveness in the health. In has been found from various research that, in Malawian, the public
is highly getting affected by the HIV (Yarchoan and Uldrick, 2018). It has been considered as the
sexually transmitted diseases that leads to pass the infection from one person to another after
having sexual contact. As the healthcare specialist suggest that, the proper health treatment in
needed in order to treat HIV. As it leads to create AIDS in the individual. In Malawian, young
people are at high risk due to the increasing rate of HIV. The 60% of the population in Malawian
is not even aware about the prevention of the HIV. Therefore, the rate of this diseases increasing
on a high note. Thus, it is mandatory to have the health promotion in the Malawian.

The country is highly close in touching the highest rate of having HIV positive patient in
the world. The youngsters of the country are getting concerned with the HIV diseases on a high
not. Major issue in the country is that, there is no major step has been taken in relation on
creating the awareness regarding the diseases (Alonso and et.al., 2019). The HIV has been
considered as one of the deadliest and highly infected diseases from all the infectious diseases.
Hence, the health promotion is needed in the nation in order to make aware about the causes of
the HIV to the people and along with this for determining the precautions to them.
Current influences on this problem
As from the above discussion, it is found that Malawi is suffering from both communicable and
non-communicable diseases and it is evidence by high level of child mortality rates. It is found
that 18.17% of deaths happen in this state because of HIV/AIDS. Malawi’s HIV prevalence is
one of the highest in the world as around 9.2-9.5% of adult population live with HIV.
Whom it is impacting: In regard to this health issue, it is found from secondary data that
HIV epidemic is affecting the general population and certain high risk group. As with the name
of disease itself, it can be said that unprotected heterosexual sex between married as well as co-
habiting partners is one of the main reason as it accounts for the majority of all new HIV