Sex workers plying their trade in central region lakeshore district of Salima have launched a complaint to National Aids Commission (NAC) board chair Paramount Chief Kyungu of police harassment and brutality. Spekaing on Tuesday in Salima when NAC Board chair Kyungu visited the district in order to appreciate how it is responding to HIV and Aids fight, […]
United Nations Populations Fund Country representative Dr Dan Odallo, has expressed concern over high HIV prevalence rate among sex workers in Malawi. Odallo was speaking in Lilongwe during the one day workshop on sex workers rights and access to justice in achieving the 90:90:90 targets. Pakachere Health and Development Communication organised the workshop in order […]
Scores of sex workers ululated and handclapped at Zomba High Court after a judge quashed a lower court conviction of 19 prostitutes and ordered the state to return their K7000 each fine. Dedza fourth grade magistrate convicted and sentenced the prostitutes on February 24 on charges of living on earnings of prostitution. Police had no […]
Sex trade is on the increase in Malawi as a result of the hardships people were facing because of grinding poverty, it has been established. The economy has crumbled and, with it, opportunity. More than half of 16 million people in the country live on less than $1 a day. Inflation and food shortages are […]
As government is grappling with drug pilferage in public hospitals, some concerned sex workers at Nkhotakota boma have questioned the alleged act of selling condoms that some workers at the district’s hospital are doing. They say the act is forcing them to engage in unsafe sex. The disgruntled sex workers made the revelation at the […]
Malawi Police in Lilongwe on Sunday saved a male prostitute from mob justice after a man who had lured him into sex realized he was male when they had gone into a room. Police in Lilongwe confirmed the arrest of Limbane Kukhase who was whisked away as a mob were administering vigilante justice on him […]
Mwanza District Council intends to establish a female sex workers alliance as a way of curbing the spread of HIV and Aids in the border district. Mwanza District Aids Coordinator, Pearson Mphangwe said this when he updated DACC members of the formation of the grouping. He said the formulation of the alliance would give sex […]
Scores of young girls are queuing for sex with men who are ready to pay in Blantyre, youth commissioner in National Aids Commission (NAC) Chimwemwe Kaonga has witnessed. According to Kaonga, girls are queuing up for sex in commercial city’s unofficial red light streets and drinking joints. “I did a spot check during one of […]
A 22 year old girl in the sex trade identified as Mercy Makolija suffered multiple injuries on her body after she was thrown out of a moving car in Nchalo, Chikwawa district. The sex worker a on the day (11th October, 2015) was putting up at one of the rest house in Nchalo and met […]
Police in Thyolo have arrested Thokozani Banda, a 23 year old commercial sex worker for allegedly killing Bizwik Macsonji who failed to pay up for sexual services. Thyolo Police Publicist Edith Kachotsa said 36 year old Macsonji went to sell mats at Khonjeni market and after a good business day, he went to treat himself […]
Malawi High Court has ruled that 11 prostitutes who were forced to take HIV tests by police six years ago will be awarded damages, a court official said Thursday citing a judgement. The sex workers were rounded up in 2009 in the southern city of Mwanza, hauled to a government hospital for HIV testing without […]
Malawi High Court judge Justice nyaKaunda Kamanga on Wednesday ruled that the police and medical personnel violated the rights of 11 Mwanza women by subjecting them to mandatory HIV testing, setting a precedent by declaring that mandatory testing of HIV/AIDS is illegal and unconstitutional. Lawyer representing the 11 women, Chrispine Sibande, filed an application in court on March 10 […]
Sex work is still criminalised across the region through laws that target related activities such as procurement, living off the earnings of prostitution, brothel-keeping, soliciting for immoral purposes, committing immoral acts in public, idle and disorderly behaviour, rogues and vagabonds etc. In some countries, the ‘spread of disease’ or ‘failure to disclose HIV positive status […]
Laws criminalising women working as prostitutes should be scrapped, a study commissioned by the Coalition of Women Living with HIV and Aids (Cowla) to document, review and analyse the existing literature on key variables around violence against women, has concluded. The sale and purchase of sex is currently illegal in Malawi. But the study—titled ‘Gender-Based […]
A 15-year-old girl in Malawi’s northern district of Mzimba is counting blessings after a Luvwele mother group from senior village headman Chidima Mhango in traditional authority Ntwalo’s area rescued her from the pangs of prostitution and sent her back to school. Chairperson of the mother group Margret Salanda told Nyasa Times that they acted upon […]
Four sex workers are under police custody while their two colleagues are at large following allegations that they have for sometime beeg taking turns sexually abusing a teenager in the northern city of Mzuzu. The Police have confirmed that they are keeping in custody four commercial sex workers for allegedly defiling a 13-year old boy […]
Underage girls have been “rescued” from at a bottle store in Blantyre’s Ndirande Township as police investigate claims they were forced into prostitution. Police said the bottle store was also being used as a brothel and the rescued girls were in Standard Four and Six respectively. According to police, the suspect in the sex slavery […]
In July this year sex workers defiled a 13-year old boy in Mzuzu and infected him with sexually transmitted infections. Many such cases abound amid an alarming proliferation of prostitution in Malawi. Prostitution shows no signs of relenting. It seems the oldest profession has come to say in the country. It is only proper that the […]