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See Latest ArticlesPathology of a famine: The Malawi example
The Internet Journal of Rescue and Disaster Medicine, 12/31/08
Nnoaham KE - Agrarian societies may have evolved strategies to counter the sole shock of food shortage but Malawi's famine demonstrates the consequences of multiple intersecting shocks acting in concert with such shortage. The population was at maximum vulnerability when the famine struck and the interaction of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, poor political governance and entitlement failures precipitated patterns of vulnerability for which the nation was not prepared.
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