How does HIV/AIDS affect the economic development of poor countries like Malawi?

Malawi is the eighth highest HIV/AIDS infected country in the World.
65 percent of Malawians live below the poverty line with an income of less than $2 per month.
Malawi is a highly populated country.
65 percent of Malawians are illiterate.
The rate of HIV/AIDS spread is 250 people per day.
NOTE: References to this information were obtained from the National AIDS Commission-Malawi(email:nac@malawi.net

For a start if they've got a high AIDS rate and little access to retroviral drugs they're hardly going to live for a long time or be productive in a working/farming capacity.

As the life expectancy declines the country will start to disentigrate.

The high rate of HIV/AIDS means that expenses to deal with tragedies as a result of the disease are done at the opportunity cost of economic development activities. This has a great impact for the country to develop economically. Report It

When you are ill you cannot work well. In Africa it鈥檚 a stigma. And with little health care people die off. And when the population drops economic activity stops.

End Aids/HIV with better education and health care.

When a good number of people in any group have HIV/AIDS, it affects economic development because those individuals are likely to be disabled. Because of the poor infrastructure and conditions, they can't afford medications and/or medications can't reach them. It also means that a good number of people can't work to improve these conditions. Education, if it can reach them, can't be received because of the illiteracy so transmission rates are very high. With all these negatives, you have a group of very poor people with major difficulties on several levels.

Not just HIV/AIDS, I'd say the poor quality of life in general, teamed with high infant mortality and low life expectancy do not bode well for economic development.