Malawi: AIDS Deaths Drop by 75%

Greater access to free medicine has helped reduce AIDS-related deaths in Malawi by 75 percent in the past four years, Mary Shawa, the country's principal secretary for H.I.V. and AIDS, said Monday. H.I.V. and AIDS have been blamed for 59 percent of deaths there among people 15 to 59 years old. As of March this year, the government had put 159,111 people on free antiretroviral drugs, and 106,547 of them were still alive.