Section divider

Since 1999, ensuring quality health services for Malawian women, men and children.

  • More than 1.1 million clients have learned of their HIV status through Jhpiego-supported HIV testing services.
  • More than 690,000 Malawian men have received voluntary medical male circumcision services for HIV prevention, thereby benefiting from this procedure’s protective effect against HIV.
  • Through the Gateway project, Jhpiego is reaching adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) with HIV prevention messaging, family planning methods and HIV testing for them and their male partners. More than 66,000 AGYW have been reached with a comprehensive package of prevention services.
  • Also through Gateway, Jhpiego built the capacity of 108 community-based distribution agents to provide youth-friendly adolescent family planning services; these peer agents have reached more than 76,000 AGYW with family planning education.

Our Technical Areas in Malawi

Our Work in Malawi

DHAPP – Malawian Defence Force Partnership for Sustainable HIV Epidemic Control Project

As a trusted partner of the Malawian Defence Force (MDF), the Government of Malawi and the U.S. Department of Defense HIV/AIDS Prevention Program, Jhpiego is drawing on 20 years of implementation experience in Malawi delivering high-quality HIV services, innovative technical assistance and capacity-building approaches to successfully implement this DOD-funded project. The project seeks to address elevated risks of HIV infection among MDF personnel, their families and key and priority populations living near MDF bases. Jhpiego and MDF are supporting 13 MDF facilities across three regions to close existing gaps in HIV services and implement best practices and innovative strategies to provide combination prevention interventions, HIV testing and treatment services, viral load testing and viral load suppression. The project also seeks to build MDF health systems and laboratory capacity and to enhance their monitoring, evaluation and reporting capabilities to sustain the work beyond the life of the project.

Expanding Malawi HIV/AIDS Prevention with Local Organizations Working for an Effective Epidemic Response (EMPOWER)

EMPOWER is a five-year program, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, with the goal of preventing new HIV infections in targeted populations in priority districts in Malawi. Jhpiego is leading a consortium to implement EMPOWER’s voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) component in Chikwawa District. Building on Jhpiego’s previous experience supporting VMMC services in Chikwawa, Thyolo and Zomba, the consortium is collaborating with stakeholders to increase uptake of high-quality VMMC services among males aged 15–29 in these districts, with a goal of achieving 80% coverage and linking those testing HIV-positive to care and treatment. To reach this goal, the consortium is: 1) increasing availability of and access to VMMC services; 2) increasing demand for VMMC among the targeted age groups; 3) improving the quality of VMMC services; and 4) strengthening linkages between VMMC and other services.

Project Dolo

This five-year project, funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), supports the government of Malawi (GOM) to: 1) provide high-quality, high-volume, cost-efficient voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) services to males aged 15 years and above; 2) increase VMMC uptake through empathy-driven demand generation; 3) improve referral and linkages between VMMC and other health services; and 4) monitor quality and performance. Under this project, Jhpiego is bolstering existing infrastructure (e.g., established sites, VMMC/HIV expert staff and partnerships in Lilongwe) to accelerate VMMC uptake. Working closely with the GOM, CDC/the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), civil society, traditional and religious leaders, private sector and other key stakeholders, Jhpiego is strategically scaling up high-quality, cost-efficient VMMC services—integrated with other male wellness services—to men aged 15 and above in Lilongwe district. Jhpiego is using data-driven approaches to target populations with limited access through insightful demand generation, and expanding VMMC availability through inventive service delivery models and venues, while maintaining a focus on safety and quality. At the same time, Jhpiego is also transferring capacity to the Ministry of Health, in consultation with GOM and PEPFAR, by the end of the project.

The people we serve

Providing 700,000 Adolescent Boys and Men in Malawi with HIV Prevention

Jhpiego has supported the government of Malawi to provide the HIV prevention intervention, voluntary medical male circumcision, to more than 700,000 young men and adolescents.  A problem brought John Siliya to the health clinic in his village outside Malawi’s capital of Lilongwe. The pain he felt while urinating was diagnosed as a sexually transmitted infection,

permalink

Nurse-midwives Use Ultrasounds to Improve Maternal Care in Rural Malawi

Blantyre, Malawi — “Fifteen years on the job and I still cannot get over the joy upon hearing that first cry of a newborn baby followed by the relief from a mother and jubilation from family members after a successful delivery,” says Pauline Jalisi, a nurse-midwife in Malawi.  But the journey to jubilation is often

permalink

Using Football Bonanzas to Kick Up Demand for VMMC in Malawi 

Lilongwe, Malawi–When the Mdulidwe Stars take the football field, there’s more at stake than scoring goals. In the Chichewa language, the team’s name means Circumcision Stars and several players will spend halftime explaining to the crowd the health benefits of voluntary medical male circumcision, or VMMC. Richard Mvula, a well-known football player in the Mitundu

permalink

Helping Girls Realize Their Dreams

Lunzu, Blantyre District, Malawi — Alinafe Machilika had to leave high school before finishing her final year, dashing her hopes of becoming a nurse. Her family couldn’t afford the fees. The teen quickly married and soon had a baby, which left her wholly dependent on her husband. The couple fought, mostly about money. With little

permalink

Peer Educators: A Key to Ending HIV

As a peer educator for the Jhpiego-supported Gateway Project in Malawi, John Banda* spends nights and weekends scouting Ngabu area bars, sports fields and other community venues, looking to help men in need of HIV prevention or treatment services.   Drawing on his own experience as a gay person living with HIV who, since 2017, has benefited from antiretroviral therapy (ART), the 34-year-old is publicly open and insistent about knowing one’s serostatus and seeking lifesaving care. With homosexuality against the law in his country, John’s work is sensitive.  The aim of this work is preventing and reducing the transmission of HIV, particularly in key

permalink
Malawi

‘Go Girls’ Clubs Aim for Adolescent Health

Blantyre, Malawi — She was not yet 13, and for most of her life, she was sickly. Malaria, diarrhea, fits of coughing and skin irritations often kept her home from school. A trip to the health facility was too far. But a health worker’s visit to her school’s girls club provided answers to the girl’s

permalink

Reliable Data, Quality Services in Malawi Lead to HIV Prevention Success

More than 393,000 men and youth in Malawi have received comprehensive HIV prevention services, including voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC), through Jhpiego’s years of commitment to high-quality, client-centered care. The 393,425 clients who voluntarily chose circumcision with Jhpiego represented nearly half of all the VMMCs performed in Malawi over the past 7 years. That’s an

permalink

Peer Power

Leah and her husband

permalink

Leave No One Behind: Test and Treat for HIV

Thyolo, Malawi — As a mother living with HIV, Jane Edward recognized that her family might be at risk for the virus. She knew her husband and children needed to be counseled and tested for HIV, and that they should also start on treatment if they tested HIV positive. But despite her encouragement, getting her

permalink
Nurse at desk updating records.

After-Hours HIV Prevention for the Busy Man

A new, appointment-driven approach to providing HIV- prevention services gives Malawi businessmen the chance to schedule voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) procedures at a convenient time that fits within their busy work schedules.

permalink
Solution being applied to an HIV testing strip.

What to Do About Tuberculosis in Pregnancy

In Malawi, integration of care for TB in maternal health services can ensure that women receive proper diagnosis and treatment. That’s how Eliza Kayange and her babies survived TB.

permalink
Nurse at desk updating records.

Country Contact

Jeroen Van’t Pad Bosch, Country Director

Tel. 265-1-776-412

P.O. Box 1091

Pamodzi House, 2nd floor

City Center

Lilongwe, Malawi

Current and Recent Donors

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

CDC

USAID

U.S. Department of Defense

Learn about a Jhpiego Women of Change: Vandana Lodhi

Read More