'Malawian Aids attacker' toll hits six-United Kingdom
THE number of women possibly infected by Aids virus attack suspect Feston Konzani rose to six yesterday. Two more were said to have contacted police,a court was told.Musician Konzani, 27, is accused of passing on HIV to three ex-partners, including a 15-year-old.A fourth — aged 26 — came forward last week. She and her boyfriend are awaiting the results of medical checks.News of the further two women was broken at Teesside Crown Court.Konzani, an asylum seeker who has lived in Middlesbrough for five years, is fighting deportation back to Malawi.
He was remanded in custody until February 6 next year by the Recorder of Middlesbrough Peter Fox, QC.
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A 26-year-old musician has appeared before magistrates charged with deliberately infecting women with the HIV virus by having sex with them. One of the alleged victims is a 15-year-old girl from Middlesbrough.

Feston Konzani, an African asylum seeker, appeared before Teesside magistrates on Tuesday charged with three counts of causing grievous bodily harm with intent to two women and the teenage girl. Mr Konzani, originally from Malawi, also faces a further charge of unlawful sexual intercourse in relation to the girl. All of the alleged offences were carried out in Middlesbrough over a three-year period between February 2000 and May 2003.
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It is alleged the women - aged 25 and 26 - and the teenager discovered they had been infected with the HIV virus after having sex with Mr Konzani. Mr Konzani, who appeared in court wearing a dark padded jacket and dark V-neck jumper, spoke only to confirm his name. No application for bail was made by Mr Konzani's solicitor Richard Vaux.
Mr Konzani, of Albany Street, Middlesbrough, was remanded in custody by bench chairman Ian Johnson to appear at Teesside Crown Court on 18 November. 

 

Malawi minister's Aids trauma
By Raphael Tenthani- BBC, Lilongwe
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A Malawi cabinet minister has shocked members of his staff by disclosing that he has personally lost three of his children to Aids during the past 10 years. They would have taken care of me and buried me but instead I have buried them at such an early age Thengo Maloya , cabinet minister. Thengo Maloya, minister for lands, physical planning and surveys, made the rare emotional disclosure when he addressed his staff at a HIV/Aids sensitisation workshop currently going on here in the capital, Lilongwe. The minister, who is 56, said he had decided to go public about his private family tragedy to show the seriousness of the pandemic.

He said now that he is growing old the two boys and one girl, all who died in their early 20s, could have been there to look after him. "It is very painful," said Mr Maloya."They would have taken care of me and buried me but instead I have buried them at such an early age." Officials decimated The minister said it was high time Malawians accepted Aids is there and is killing people. He said in the last six years alone his ministry had lost close to 100 very important officers to the disease.

He said this has led his ministry to have a deficit of 800 people in its workforce. In addition, the minister said those still in employment were either too weak with the disease to work or unable to go to work regularly because they were down with the disease or attending to a sick relation or a funeral due to Aids."This is a very serious issue," Mr Maloya told his staff who listened in silence."Let's agree that Aids is killing people, that Aids has no cure, that available drugs only prolong life but they are not a cure." Life expectancy slashed

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This is the first time a senior government official has gone public with such an impassionate disclosure of his or her private HIV/Aids situation. Two years ago, parliamentary Speaker Sam Mpasu shocked the nation when he disclosed that Parliament had lost 28 MPs to Aids in four years alone. Currently, over 14% of the Malawi population of 11 million are said to be living with HIV/Aids. According to the United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Report, HIV/Aids has reduced Malawi's life expectancy from 46 to 36.