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Welcome to Friends of Sick Children in Malawi

Mum watches over toddler in makeshift traction

Friends of Sick Children in Malawi is a UK charity.

It’s object is to improve the care and well being of the 90,000+ sick children admitted to or seen each year in the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH), Malawi by raising funds for Friends of Sick Children (‘FOSC’), a Malawi children’s charity with the same objective.

FOSC raises funds needed a) to pay the nurses, clinical officers and related staff who each year treat some of the poorest children in the World and b) to pay for other much needed resources.

FOSC is dedicated to raising the funds necessary to support the essential work at the QECH.

FOSC benefits from the sale of original artwork of artists in Malawi - at www.MalawiArt.net.

If you would like to make a cash donation to Friends of Sick Children in Malawi then please use the 'Donate button to the left and/or buy original art work - find out more here.

Weighing and handing out food supplements outside the malnutrition unit

Weighing and handing out food supplements outside the malnutrition unit

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Factfile

	UK	Malawi
Population	60m	13m
GDP per capita	£31,300	£275
Mortality of under 5s per 1000 births	6	172
Life expectancy at birth	78 yrs	35 yrs
Fertility rate children per woman	1.7	6

HIV & AIDS

Malawi

14.2% of the population of Malawi are infected.

There are an estimated 86,000 deaths p.a.

90,000 children are HIV positive.

500,000 children are orphaned because of Aids.

Another 200,000 children are otherwise vulnerable because of HIV/Aids.

UK
1,390 children are HIV positive with less than 2 deaths per annum.