The virus spreads. Changing private sexual behavior is incredibly difficult. I asked Dr Bonongwe, the district hospital's sole physician if, in the midst of all this death, he was confident that Malawians would change and practise safer sex. There is no prospect that people will change their behavior. Eliza's family are poor, poor beyond our imagining.
Malawian funerals are great public events.
The entire village gathers to spend the night at the house of the deceased. The songs go on all night long. The mourners must be fed, the food cooked, and firewood gathered. Funerals are expensive. In a corner of the female ward at St Ann's lies Mary Mbwana.