malawi: Half of Malawi's workforce could be dead by 2005

Up to half of Malawi's professional workforce could die of HIV/Aids by 2005, the World Bank has said in a report timed to coincide with the opening of a major conference in Kenya on the pandemic in Africa. Professionals in the education and health sectors are particularly affected in the impoverished Southern African country, as are members of the army and the police, the study says.