“Tsogolo La Thanzi” is translated as ‘healthy futures’ in Chichewa, Malawi’s most widely spoken language, and is the name of a study created in 2007 by Sara Yeatman and Jenny Trinitapoli. The study, commencing in 2009, is a longitudinal survey of young adulthood that would ascertain the strategies used to navigate the competing goals of having children and avoiding HIV infection amongst the population surrounding Balaka, Malawi. How do young adults negotiate relationships, sex, and childbearing in the context of a severe AIDS epidemic? Drawing on the results gathered, Trinitapoli encompasses her research, decades in the making, into her latest book An epidemic of uncertainty: navigating HIV and young adulthood in Malawi.