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Zimbabwe fears HIV setbacks despite global praise
Zimbabwe has earned widespread international praise for its achievements in the fight against HIV, with the latest UNAIDS Global AIDS Update 2025 placing the country among a selec...Published: 15 Jul 2025 at 21:49hrs | 157 | by Staff reporter
Harare faces alarming surge in STI cases
Harare, June 24, 2025 - Harare is facing a troubling rise in sexually transmitted infections (STIs), with over 25,000 new cases recorded in 2024, according to recent figures released by the National A...Published: 23 Jun 2025 at 11:43hrs | 555 | by Staff reporter
Zvishavane emerges as Midlands HIV hotspot
Zvishavane district has emerged as the new epicentre of HIV in the Midlands Province, recording the highest number of new infections and the highest HIV prevalence rate, according to recent stat...Published: 20 Jun 2025 at 06:16hrs | 247 | by Staff reporter
Trump funding cuts major blow for Zimbabwe LGBTIQ+ rights
The recent reduction in US government funding for LGBTIQ+ programmes has dealt a severe blow to public health and human rights services in Zimbabwe, leaving vulnerable communities exposed to heightene...Published: 08 Jun 2025 at 12:06hrs | 253 | 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 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
Zimbabwe's New Start Centre suspends ART, PrEP refills
The Population Solutions for Health (PSH) New Start Centre in Harare's Central Business District (CBD) has temporarily suspended its services for patients on Antiretroviral Treatment (ART) and those s...Published: 07 Feb 2025 at 06:44hrs | 1245 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo Hospital Employee sentenced for stealing phones from vulnerable patients
A 34-year-old employee at Mpilo Central Hospital has been sentenced to 12 months in prison after being found guilty of stealing mobile phones from patients while they were in a vulnerable state. The c...Published: 17 Nov 2024 at 16:22hrs | 1712 | by Staff Reporter
Mpilo Hospital’s lab gains international certification
The United States has reaffirmed its commitment to strengthening Zimbabwe’s healthcare system, with an annual investment exceeding US$200 million aimed at improving health outcomes across the countr...Published: 18 Sep 2024 at 19:35hrs | 347 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo refutes 90% HIV positivity report
THE Bulawayo City Council has refuted media reports claiming that 90 percent of women aged between 16 and 50 that tested for HIV in Bulawayo in June came out positive and that there is a 71.7 percent ...Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 12:49hrs | 478 | by Staff reporter
Polygamist demands conjugal rights
A polygamous Harare man has dragged his first wife to court for denying him his conjugal rights for years.Talent Zanova told Harare magistrate Johanna Mukwesha that Comfort Kanota was abusing ...Published: 11 Feb 2024 at 21:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Anti-Retroviral Therapy coverage stands at 99%
AN international HIV and Aids organisation based in the United Kingdom has commended Zimbabwe for approving two new HIV prevention products within six months before any other African nation.Th...Published: 11 Jan 2024 at 05:14hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
47% of UZ students HIV positive
ALMOST half of University of Zimbabwe students who recently underwent voluntary HIV testing were positive, a revelation which has forced the institution to limit inter-residence visits between male an...Published: 13 Jul 2023 at 09:55hrs | 3 | by Erick Matotoba
Testing HIV negative when on HIV medication, what's happening?
HIV tests especially self-tests (blood or oral) occasionally give false-negative result in people living with HIV who are taking HIV treatment.Explanation:...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 07:21hrs | 1 | by Erick Matotoba
WATCH: Confessions of a sex worker
FOR many people especially those with conservative, religious views, sex work often called the world's oldest profession, is dirty, immoral and those who do consent to it can't possibly respect themse...Published: 09 Jun 2023 at 06:32hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
'Yes I have HIV Zimbabwe' launches on DStv's Honey TV
FOCUSED on people living with HIV, a new television series on DStv will provide an insight into the challenges and success faced by these people on a daily basis.Liz Dziva, MultiChoice Zimbabw...Published: 08 Jun 2023 at 09:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
50% of Beitbridge sex workers HIV+
ABOUT 50 percent of sex workers in the border town of Beitbridge are HIV-positive and have been initiated on antiretroviral therapy, a move that has seen the control of infections and uptake of relate...Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 08:32hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Abusive man torments ex-wife
A Harare woman was granted a protection order against her ex-husband who was in the habit of visiting her workplace accusing her of infecting him with HIV.Harare magistrate Tamara Chibindi hea...Published: 07 May 2023 at 07:49hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe HIV+ pregnant women number among world highest
ZIMBABWE has been ranked one of the 22 countries with the highest burden of pregnant women living with HIV.This is despite the country having made major strides in testing and preventing the v...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 06:37hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Susan Mutami spills beans in tell-all sexual abuse scandal
A CONTROVERSIAL young Zimbabwean woman Susan Mutami, based in Australia, with high-level Zanu-PF and government links, has dropped a bombshell: she has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of raping a...Published: 25 Jul 2022 at 07:57hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Suspected robber gunned down, four arrested in shoot-out
One suspected armed robber was shot dead while four others were arrested following an intense exchange of gunfire with the police near the Harare Exhibition Centre on Tuesday.The robbers were ...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA-registered vehicle used in Harare shoot-out recovered
The South African registered VW Polo vehicle used as a first getaway car by two suspected armed robbers who sped off during a shootout at a service station near the Exhibition Park (formerly Harare Ag...Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 06:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Pregnant girls troop back to school
SEVERAL teenage girls in Ntabazinduna who had dropped out of school after falling pregnant during the Covid-19 pandemic when schools were closed for the better part of last year have returned to schoo...Published: 03 Apr 2022 at 08:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean woman's successful fight against HIV
THE words "we are very sorry, your blood shows that you are HIV positive", gave Ms Sithethelele Nkomo nightmares, confusion, suicidal thoughts and rang in her mind for two good months without disclosi...Published: 01 Apr 2022 at 08:54hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
NUST starts making PCR test kits
THE National University of Science and Technology (Nust) is set to start manufacturing Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) kits next month following delivery of a US$86 000 reagents manufacturing machine....Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 05:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe HIV prevalence drops from 13,9% to 11,8%
VICE PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga, who also doubles as the Health Minister, has said despite the Covid-19 induced disruptions to HIV/AIDS service delivery in 2020, the government's response to HIV w...Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 20:00hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mobile clinics for Bulawayo residents
BULAWAYO residents who do not have a clinic nearby are set to benefit from a fully equipped mobile clinic donated by the Aids Healthcare Foundation (AHF) to provide health services. The mobile...Published: 29 Oct 2021 at 08:28hrs | 23 | by Staff Reporter
'Love for women got me behind bars'
BIGGIE DUBE, a pastor at the Church of Christ, has finally broken his silence after being sentenced to 31 years in prison for raping some of his female congregants in Bikita.Pastor Dube, as he...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife gets UK invite
A United Kingdom-based organisation - NCD Global Alliance which fights non-communicable diseases (NCDs) has written to the First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa inviting her to join their organisation as an N...Published: 29 Sep 2021 at 06:41hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Sex-treatment 'prophet' has rape conviction and 22-year sentence quashed
A self-styled prophet jailed for 22 years in July 2017 for raping two women is a free man after the High Court quashed his conviction and sentence.Grace Ministries founder Onbert Mapfumo, now ...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 19:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Nust to manufacture Covid-19 testing kits
THE National University of Science and Technology (Nust) has procured a US$87 000 Covid-19 reagents manufacturing machine and it is expected to be delivered in the next two months. The new mac...Published: 05 Aug 2021 at 06:14hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Fertility doctor in court for sexual assault
A PROMINENT Harare medical doctor Tinovimba Mhlanga (36) was Monday brought before a Harare magistrate facing aggravated indecent assault charges after he allegedly inserted his fingers into the priva...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 09:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga says no to contraceptives for girls
Girls under the age of 16 cannot be given contraceptives as they cannot legally consent to sexual activity, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga told that National Assembly last week. Speaking ...Published: 05 Jul 2021 at 07:03hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
HIV/Aids account for 50% teen deaths
HIV and Aids have emerged as the leading killers among adolescents, accounting for 50% of deaths, according to statistics released by sexual and reproductive health rights organisation, Advocacy Core ...Published: 05 Jun 2021 at 09:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Nust gets funds to procure Covid-19 reagents manufacturing machine
GOVERNMENT has released about US$87 000 to the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) for procurement of a Covid-19 reagents manufacturing machine.The machine will enable the uni...Published: 04 Jun 2021 at 07:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers raid cop
THREE armed robbers from Gweru have been sentenced to 10 years in jail each after they were convicted of robbing a Redcliff policeman of his vehicle, money and clothes.They broke into the cop'...Published: 31 May 2021 at 06:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man drags lover to court for deliberate HIV infection
A 48-year-old Harare man yesterday took his lover to court on allegations of deliberately infecting him with HIV after having consensual intimacy on the promise that he was going to marry her. ...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 06:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe achieves HIV prevention target
Zimbabwe has achieved the 90-90-90 target on HIV prevention and is now working on the 95-95-95 target for 2025, while the mortality significantly declined by almost 72 percent in the 10 years between ...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 07:49hrs | | 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
Covid-19 disrupts TB address progress
BULAWAYO, Midlands, Matabeleland North and South provinces accounted for most tuberculosis (TB) deaths recorded in Zimbabwe last year amid reports that Covid-19 disrupted progress that Zimbabwe had ma...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 05:45hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
81 million condoms distributed in Zimbabwe last year
A STAGGERING 81 million condoms were distributed in Zimbabwe last year as the country strives to achieve global HIV testing and condom use targets by 2030. Zimbabwe ranks number five in Africa...Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 06:07hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Temba Mliswa in messy break-up
Health care professional Susan Vivian Mutami who is battling to end a three-month relationship with Temba Mliswa says she regrets meeting the Norton Member of Parliament whom she accuses of turning he...Published: 01 Feb 2021 at 21:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe makes huge strides in combating HIV/AIDS
Zimbabwe has made commendable progress in reversing the course of the AIDS pandemic through prevention of new HIV infections and the provision of treatment to those infected despite economic challenge...Published: 01 Dec 2020 at 06:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Pokello tests for HIV publicly
November is HIV Testing Campaign month and local influencer, personality Pokello Nare has initiated an HIV Testing campaign in order to encourage locals to get tested and know their status. Th...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 05:20hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
STI drug shortages hits Mashonaland East
Health centres in marginalised communities of Mashonaland East province have been hit by an acute shortage of drugs for sexually-transmitted infections (STIs).National Aids Council (NAC) provi...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 08:15hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Vuzu parties stoke fears of upsurge in HIV cases
The raging phenomenon of wild parties organised by teenagers, where sex orgies and alcohol binges are commonplace, is stocking fears of a surge in new HIV infections in Bulawayo.The National A...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 10:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa challenged to do 'public HIV test'
Former MDC youth leader Fortune Mlalazi has challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to go for a public HIV test. In a post on his Facebook account, Mlalazi said the tests would encourage Zimba...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 11:53hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa's wife engages men
First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has started engaging men's representative organisations to hear their issues and help overcome ills such as physical and verbal abuse, domestic violence, abuse of c...Published: 01 Aug 2019 at 09:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
HIV testing fees reviewed
NEW Start Centres across the country have reviewed their charges for HIV testing and counselling to $9, a situation that will likely discourage people from testing, at a time when the country is worki...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Young sex workers get reprieve
At the age of 15, Tendai Dube* was heavily into drugs, dodging school and creating havoc among her peers along Ndema Road in Gweru's Ascot suburb where she stayed with her single mother. However, she ...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 21:14hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
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