{"id":3116,"date":"2011-07-01T15:12:39","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T15:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=3116"},"modified":"2011-07-01T15:12:39","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T15:12:39","slug":"student-commits-suicide-after-hiv-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/01\/student-commits-suicide-after-hiv-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Student commits suicide after HIV test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3117\" title=\"news_bHIV-Ribbon250\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/news_bHIV-Ribbon250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"321\" \/>A 22 year old Form Four student in Chitipa district committed suicide by hanging after medical results revealed that he was HIV\/AIDS positive,\u00a0<em>Nyasa Times<\/em> has learnt.<\/p>\n<p>According to Police, the student Charles Mkandawire of Yamba CDSS was found HIV positive on Tuesday at a government health facility and decided to hang himself on a Mango tree at 8pm the same day.<\/p>\n<p>Family members found his body after a frantic search when he could not answer verbal calls.<\/p>\n<p>Northern Region Police Public Relations Officer Norrah Chimwala said the deceased told family members in a suicide note that they should not worry about him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Police we always advise people that committing suicide is not the solution because so many people are living positively with Aids curtsey of the government\u2019s \u00a0 free life-prolonging antiretroviral (<em>ARV<\/em>) drugs\u00a0and other programmes,\u201d Chimwala said.<\/p>\n<p>A relation suspected the deceased must have contemplated his suicide well in advance.<\/p>\n<p>Police said a lack of proper counselling and the fear of discrimination could lead people to end their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Malawi, one million of its population of 14 million are infected with HIV\/AIDS, the primary cause of life expectancy being only 43 years.\u2014<em>(Reporting by Collins Mtika, Nyasa Times)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 22 year old Form Four student in Chitipa district committed suicide by hanging after medical results revealed that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[349,529,205,883],"class_list":["post-3116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-well-being","tag-aids","tag-hiv","tag-students","tag-suicide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}