Swaziland

Swaziland At A Glance

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Directing HQ: Action Against Hunger - Spain
Launch Date: 2007
Beneficiaries (2009): 10,683 people
Institutional Funders: PEPFAR (US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), UUEE, Clinton Foundation, ACH

Press Contact

Carlos Riaza
Prensa y Comunicación Institucional, ACF-Spain
criaza@achesp.org
Direct: +34 91 391 53 06

Swaziland is a tiny country surrounded by South Africa and Mozambique. Life expectance is one of the lowest in the world at 37.5 years. In the past 10 years, the mortality rate for children under five has doubled. (Nearly half of child mortality is associated with malnutrition.) Some 26% of adults have HIV—the highest prevalence in the world. Much of the population has no access to safe drinking water, two-thirds live in chronic poverty, and one quarter depends on food relief.

Field Updates | Swaziland

Action Against Hunger Launches New Health/Nutrition Project In Two Countries With Highest Incidence of AIDS

December 29, 2007

Madrid, Spain — With little over a million inhabitants each, Swaziland and Lesotho are at the top of the list of countries with the highest prevalence of HIV/AIDS, 33% and 23% respectively. Additionally, the rate of chronic malnutrition affects three out of ten children under five years of age in Lesotho and half the number of children in Swaziland. With those figures on the table, Action Against Hunger / Action Contre la Faim (ACF) has decided to intervene in both countries, and since last October, is developing a health and nutrition project that will allow for the reduction of infant malnutrition caused, in part, by AIDS. » Read more

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