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Qualitative data was collected in this study to discover the perspectives of secondary and tertiary school graduates on the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Thirty-eight secondary and tertiary graduate Malawians took part in semi-structured interviews. Data was analysed using an early grounded theory approach and subsequent themes of "global discourses" and "experiential knowledge of HIV/AIDS" emerged. This group of Malawians frequently responded to questions regarding healthcare and access to medicine, sexual behaviours and methods of reducing the spread of HIV/AIDS by citing widespread, international and "proper" responses. The secondary and tertiary graduate Malawians also gave experiential responses, citing views against circumcision and use of condoms, overestimating HIV prevalence, and calling for more authoritarian policing of commercial sex work, views that were divergent from international discourse. The opinions of this group of secondary and tertiary graduate Malawians do not always coincide with current literature and policies.