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Zimbabwe assures continued ARV availability
The government has reassured the public that antiretroviral (ARV) medicines will remain accessible to all who need them through the end of 2025, with plans already underway to secure supplies for the ...Published: 30 Jun 2025 at 15:53hrs | 87 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe assures steady ARV supply amid US funding cuts
Health and Child Care Minister Dr Douglas Mombeshora has moved to dispel growing fears over antiretroviral (ARV) drug shortages, assuring the nation that Zimbabwe has adequate supplies to meet n...Published: 17 May 2025 at 12:20hrs | 87 | by Staff reporter
HIV patients pay hidden fees as ARV shortage deepens in Zimbabwe
A growing crisis is unfolding in Zimbabwe as some nurses at public clinics in Harare are reportedly charging people living with HIV illicit fees for access to lifesaving antiretroviral (ARV) medicatio...Published: 01 May 2025 at 12:11hrs | 733 | by Staff reporter
The reality of '9 wasted years' - A decade WMC failed to capture Zuma
For too long, South Africans have been bombarded with a dishonest narrative coined by the very architects of our economic servitude, that the period of President Jacob Zuma's administration represents...Published: 13 Apr 2025 at 14:33hrs | 755 | by Mzwanele Manyi
Zimbabwe allays fears of ARV shortages
The Government has assured Zimbabweans that the country has adequate stocks of anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs), following concerns about potential shortages after reports that the United States Governmen...Published: 10 Apr 2025 at 08:58hrs | 54 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe secures 3 month ARV supply
Zimbabwe has secured an additional three-month supply of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs to ensure uninterrupted treatment for people living with HIV, Health and Child Care Minister Dr. Douglas Mombeshora ...Published: 06 Apr 2025 at 11:32hrs | 850 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Braces for HIV Resurgence as US Aid Evaporates
Rumbidzai, a sex worker from the bustling settlement of Epworth in Harare, has been taking antiretroviral drugs since 2017. For over two years, the mother of three has relied on mobile clinics that re...Published: 12 Feb 2025 at 11:29hrs | 394 | by Staff reporter
ARVs shortage hits Tsholotsho
Tsholotsho district in Matabeleland North is grappling with a severe shortage of anti-retroviral (ARV) medication, despite having the highest number of people living with HIV in Zimbabwe, according to...Published: 09 Dec 2024 at 06:55hrs | 147 | by Staff reporter
HIV patients limited to one-week ARV supplies amid shortages
Health facilities in Matabeleland are grappling with severe shortages of antiretroviral drugs (ARVs), forcing healthcare providers to reduce the amount of medication dispensed to HIV patients....Published: 27 Nov 2024 at 12:05hrs | 650 | by Staff reporter
Marvelous Nakamba feels good
After making his first league start since last December on Saturday, Marvelous Nakamba told of the belief he had in himself and the club's medical staff to overcome his latest knee injury.The ...Published: 17 Sep 2024 at 06:23hrs | 852 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean concerns over condoms cash drying up next year
At a forum organized by SafAids in Harare, concerns were raised by public health practitioners regarding the potential reversal of HIV prevention progress due to the looming end of international fundi...Published: 23 Jun 2024 at 10:46hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe introduces injectable HIV drug
ZIMBABWE has introduced Cabotegravir long-acting (CAB-LA), an injectable pre-exposure prophylaxis drug, to add to the HIV prevention regime in the country.The drug, an ARV designed to suppress...Published: 11 Apr 2024 at 08:35hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Nakamba deserves another chance
Marvelous Nakamba has quickly become the forgotten man in Aston Villa's squad, just nine months after being focal to Steven Gerrard's bright start in English Premier League football management....Published: 26 Sep 2022 at 05:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Door-to-door ARV distribution plans advanced
People living with HIV/AIDS will soon have anti retroviral (ARV) medication delivered to their homes under a programme meant to reduce cases of defaulting and enhance uptake. The programme, which will...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 10:04hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Govt reaches out to HIV positive children
Government is reaching out to children living with HIV to take advantage of the available treatment as part of accelerated efforts to achieve an HIV free generation, Vice President and Minister of Hea...Published: 24 Feb 2022 at 05:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Nakamba eyes strong comeback
HIS injury has been topical in the Midlands region of England.Marvelous Nakamba is dominating football headlines on both his club website and the Birmingham Mail, a publication that carries ex...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 06:52hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Fears of ARVs shortages allayed
The National Aids Council (NAC) says Zimbabwe has enough stocks of antiretrovirals (ARVs) to take the country through the year amid indications that most resources are being channelled towards the fig...Published: 04 Apr 2021 at 09:45hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
ARVs shortage hits Bulawayo
BULAWAYO has been hit by a shortage of antiretroviral drugs (ARVs), with patients saying the COVID-19 lockdown period had worsened the situation.Some of the patients, who spoke to Southern Eye...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 07:11hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to resume manufacturing ARVs
ZIMBABWE will now resume local manufacturing of Antiretrovirals (ARVs) and other drugs using local pharmaceutical companies as the country has been losing millions of foreign currency by procuring the...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 06:47hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
ARV shortage hits Zimbabwe
A shipment of Antiretroviral (ARV) drugs meant for Zimbabwe will not be arriving in time due to Covid -19 induced delays, forcing the Ministry of Health and Child Care to reduce its six-month multi-dr...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 06:11hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
ARV shortage fears dismissed
Natpharm has assured Zimbabweans on second regimen antiretroviral treatment that the current stocks which are low will be expeditiously replenished. There had been concerns among those who tak...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 05:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ARVs shortage hits Bulawayo
SOME people living with HIV in Bulawayo are failing to access antiretroviral (ARV) drugs due to shortages in the city blamed on distribution inefficiencies as Government says the country has adequate ...Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 07:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Drug supplies improve significantly
The availability of essential medicines in public health institutions has significantly increased from 52 percent to 65 percent in the last two months after Government availed funds for the life-savin...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
UN allays Zimbabwe ARV shortage fears
A foreign currency shortage is hampering Zimbabwe's ability to purchase anti-retroviral therapy for people living with HIV, but the United Nations says the situation has not yet reached crisis levels....Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 08:47hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe stocks year's supply of ARVs
Zimbabwe has enough anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs that will last the next 12 months after Government secured funding to procure the life-prolonging therapy, Parliament has heard. Health and Child Care M...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Economic crisis won't affect ARV supply'
Health Minister Obadiah Moyo says Zimbabwe is in a safe zone regarding the allocation of Anti Retroviral Drugs (ARV) despite the country's economic collapse. Moyo called on Zimbabweans l...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 20:32hrs | | by Staff Reporter
New HIV drug unveiled
Newly diagnosed HIV patients are now being initiated onto a new regimen of antiretroviral medication containing Dolutegravir (DTG), a drug which has significantly less side effects and is more afforda...Published: 12 May 2019 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to roll out new and more effective ARV drug
THE Ministry of Health and Child Care is working on a programme to roll out a new antiretroviral drug Dolutegravir which is more effective in viral suppression and has fewer side effects. Vira...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 19:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
ARV shortage looms
GOVERNMENT says it is expecting a deficit in antiretroviral (ARV) drugs between now and 2020 due to an increase in uptake of the HIV and Aids treatment programme.The Health and Child Care mini...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 08:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya fined $700
PHD founder Prophet Walter Magaya (pictured) has been found guilty and fined US$700 for contravening Section 41 of Medicines and Allied Substances Control Act.Prophet Magaya was found guilty o...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 14:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe forex woes hit ARV procurement
Government has made strides in the fight against HIV/AIDS, which has seen the country reducing the HIV prevalence rate from a high of 27 percent in 1997 to the current 13 percent, but resource constra...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 18:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wheels come off Zimbabwe health sector
Medical experts have warned the government that it is putting the lives of thousands of people at risk, after it recently started dispensing expired drugs in hospitals - including life-prolongin...Published: 29 Dec 2018 at 18:36hrs | | by Nokuthaba Nkomo
New, cheaper ARV comes to Zimbabwe
Government will introduce a new line of cheaper and more effective antiretroviral drugs for HIV and Aids patients early next year.Authorities will introduce the Dolutegravir (DTG) line, which ...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 06:45hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Family and Religious Studies Advanced Level Analysis
Explore the lessons that can be drawn from Jesus ethics and demonstrate how they can be applied in a Zimbabwean society faced with problem of HIV and AIDS?...Published: 17 Nov 2018 at 17:22hrs | 20 | by Brian Maregedze
Supporting Mnangagwa without backing Zanu PF, backing MDC without supporting Chamisa
"Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator," observed a sage.I am not into political prophecy, but this week last year - precisely November 6, 2017, the day then President Robert Mugabe s...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 05:17hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Prophet Magaya faces lawsuit over HIV 'cure'
THE Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR) has ordered Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries founder Wlater Magaya to retract his claim that he had found a cure for HIV and Ai...Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 05:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Women protest over banned ARV drug
Women living with HIV and Aids from sub-Saharan Africa, including Zimbabwe, staged a demonstration at the 2018 Aids conference in Amsterdam, demanding that line ministries stay clear of their decision...Published: 26 Jul 2018 at 07:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
No 'special group' has entitlement to national cause
THE rants by the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans' Association (ZNLWVA) against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration cannot go unchallenged given the former freedom fighters' self-ce...Published: 04 Jul 2018 at 07:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe defers ARV drug roll-out
Government has deferred the national roll-out of Dolutegravir - an anti-retroviral drug for adolescent girls and women of child-bearing age - following reports from Botswana that the drug is associate...Published: 18 Jun 2018 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe defers HIV drug roll out
GOVERNMENT has deferred the national rollout of dolutegravir, an anti-retroviral drug, to adolescent girls and women of child-bearing age, following reports from Botswana that the drug was associated ...Published: 15 Jun 2018 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mukupe enjoys good relationship with Chinamasa
Under-fire deputy Finance minister Terrence Mukupe has claimed he enjoys a good working relationship with his boss Patrick Chinamasa.This comes amid reports of fierce run-ins between the two a...Published: 27 May 2018 at 16:29hrs | 2 | by Staff rpeorter
Mukupe goes after Mnangagwa's aide
Under-fire Finance deputy minister Terrence Mukupe has accused one of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's closest aides of being behind an alleged plot to tarnish his image after the Zanu PF politician lat...Published: 27 May 2018 at 09:12hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Man stabs wife over ARV dispute
A Mberengwa man last week was arraigned before the courts for stabbing his wife after a dispute over the latter's failure to give their HIV-positive child anti-retroviral drugs. The man (name ...Published: 02 May 2018 at 09:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Preachers tell congregants to stop taking ARVs'
A WORRYING trend is emerging in Gweru, where preachers claim to be curing HIV and Aids and are advising followers to stop taking anti-retroviral drugs, minutes of a recent Gweru magistrates' Victim Fr...Published: 28 Apr 2018 at 14:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Preachers claim to cure HIV & Aids, tell congregants to stop taking ARVs
A WORRYING trend is emerging in Gweru, where preachers claim to be curing HIV and Aids and are advising followers to stop taking anti-retroviral drugs, minutes of a recent Gweru magistrates' Victim Fr...Published: 28 Apr 2018 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Wiping out HIV and AIDS
Most people get confused with terms HIV and AIDS. They relatively believe that HIV and AIDS are the same but there is a slight difference.Human Immune Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficienc...Published: 30 Mar 2018 at 11:42hrs | 1 | by Daniel Itai
HIV+ man's jail term for infecting partner reduced
AN HIV positive man heaved a sigh of relief after the High Court reduced his 10-year sentence to two years for allegedly infecting his partner with the virus.Nevison Mpofu (39) filed an appeal...Published: 22 Nov 2017 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Rapist' neighbour falls asleep in victim's blankets
A 65-YEAR-OLD woman from Nkayi told a court that after raping her twice, her alleged rapist aged 20, told her she now belonged to him.He then fell asleep in her blankets.The woman said...Published: 28 Oct 2017 at 07:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Slow pace in resolving ARVs shortage irks CSOs
THE Zimbabwe National Network of People Living with HIV (ZNNP+), Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights and the Diocese of Mutare Community Care Programme (DOMCCP) express grave concern over the slow pace ...Published: 27 Sep 2017 at 15:45hrs | 16 | by Stephen Jakes
Parirenyatwa allays ARV shortage fears
Health and Child Care minister David Parirenyatwa has allayed fears of anti-retroviral drugs (ARV) shortage, saying the country had acquired adequate stocks to cater for all people on anti-retrovial t...Published: 28 Aug 2017 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
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