Suicide in Malawi- another example of dispensability of men?

Adamson S. Muula^1,2,3

1. Professor and Head of Department, Community and Environmental Health, School of Global and Public Health, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Malawi
2. President, ECSA College of Public Health Physicians, Arusha, Tanzania
3. Editor-in Chief, Malawi Medical Journal, Blantyre, Blantyre

A 2021 article by Banda et al¹, presented the growing epidemic of suicide in Malawi. She and her co-authors proposed interventions to curb the suicide outbreak in Malawi. In fact, if we follow the traditional definition of an “outbreak”, suicide in Malawi has passed the outbreak stage. It has now become endemic, and much more so among males.