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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
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
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
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
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
Man up for wilful HIV transmission
A 50-YEAR-OLD man from Bulawayo has been arrested for deliberately transmitting HIV to his wife. The accused person appeared before Western Commonage magistrate, Mr Lungile Ncube, who remanded...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 06:35hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Cop rapes vendor
A POLICE officer stationed at Binga Police Station has been arrested for allegedly raping a vendor during her sleep.Constable Onismo Kabone (42), under the Minerals and Border Control Unit, al...Published: 15 Jun 2018 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Newly weds in HIV infection storm
SIX months after their marriage, a woman from Bulawayo's Emganwini suburb will live to curse the day she got married after discovering that her husband kept his status a secret and infected her with H...Published: 25 May 2018 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Young, HIV+ and ready to change the world
She dreams of a white wedding, a career in social science and to have a family. Rumbidzai Chidora (22) is HIV-positive but did not understand it and lived in denial for most of her childhood, but is n...Published: 01 Apr 2018 at 15:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC leader discloses HIV status
The Youth Secretary General of the Movement for Democratic Change led by Professor Welshman Ncube Discent Collins Bajila has urged young people to do an overall check up of their health status a...Published: 28 Mar 2018 at 16:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Schools disclose pupils' HIV status
SOME private schools are reportedly requesting pupils to submit medical forms disclosing their HIV status in violation of the country's HIV and Aids policy.The Zimbabwe Medical Association (Zi...Published: 10 Feb 2018 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Shocking STIs stats at NUST
TEN percent of students and staff members who were attended to at the National University of Science and Technology's (Nust) Clinic last year sought treatment for sexually-transmitted infections....Published: 22 Aug 2017 at 06:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Africa's new strategies to defeat HIV/AIDS
Prevention, treatment and care cut new infections by 14%. After more than three decades of wrestling the ...Published: 17 Dec 2016 at 06:59hrs | 3 | by Juliette Martin
30% of South African cops 'are HIV positive'
A call for behavioural change within the ranks of Malawi's police force has been made following revelations that over 30% of the southern Africa country's police force are HIV positive.Acc...Published: 29 Sep 2016 at 10:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
HIV panic at high school
14 pupils at Emakhandeni Secondary School in Bulawayo were rushed for HIV tests after a boy at the school went around pricking them with a needle. Panicky parents made a report at Luveve Police Statio...Published: 27 Jun 2016 at 06:57hrs | | by Tanaka Mrewa
Zimbabwe records 50% increase in HIV tests
Zimbabwe has recorded a 50 percent increase in HIV testing for both men and women attributed to the successful roll-out of the Prevention of Mother To Child Transmission (PMTCT) programme accordi...Published: 01 Jun 2016 at 20:09hrs | | by Staf Reporter
Harare woman sold for $10 000 to Kuwait
One of the trafficked woman to Kuwait was sold for $10 000 by a 38-year-old Harare man.The jobless woman was further sold to an elderly woman in the Middle East country.She was only al...Published: 30 May 2016 at 07:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Evil HIV+ man on the run…deliberately infected Mutare women
A Mutare man, Liberty Sithole (27) is alleged to be on a HIV infection spree, with one of his alleged victims making a police report last Thursday.Police confirmed receiving a report from one ...Published: 29 Apr 2016 at 09:18hrs | | by Cletus Mushanawani
HIV-positive woman barred from work
Some colleges training students for the hospitality sector, especially food handlers, have allegedly stopped recruitment of those who test HIV-positive.Sunday Mail reported that the revelation...Published: 24 Apr 2016 at 13:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe trafficking victim attempts suicide in Kuwait
A ZIMBABWEAN woman who fell victim to a human trafficking scam in Kuwait is reportedly battling for her life in that country after attempting to commit suicide following repeated abuse at the hands of...Published: 18 Mar 2016 at 05:32hrs | | by Tendai Rupapa
Ambassador implicated in trafficking saga
Former Kuwait ambassador to Zimbabwe Ahmed Al -Jeeran has been implicated as the ring- leader in the human trafficking syndicate that has seen over 200 female job seekers lured to Kuwait on the pretex...Published: 16 Mar 2016 at 05:38hrs | | by Tendai Rupapa
Door to door HIV tests a hit
AT least 3,000 people from two provinces have voluntarily tested for HIV in the door-to-door testing programme that began in October, the Zimbabwe Population Based HIV Impact Assessment (ZIMPHIA) has ...Published: 27 Nov 2015 at 05:24hrs | | by Lisa Shirichena
'He neglects his child because of my HIV status'
A MEGA Mart employee was last week dragged to court by his ex-wife who is demanding $180 maintenance for the upkeep of their six-month-old baby.The two appeared before magistrate Mrs Yeukai Ch...Published: 19 Sep 2015 at 10:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sex workers to get damages over forced HIV tests
Blantyre - A Malawi court has ruled that 11 prostitutes who were forced to take HIV tests by police six years ago will be awarded damages, a court official said on Thursday citing a judgment....Published: 22 May 2015 at 11:14hrs | | by AFP
Man rapes teen, gives her soft drink and biscuits after
A 16-year-old Harare girl was reportedly raped in a car by a man who had offered her a lift and later gave her 500ml soft drink and biscuits.Tafadzwa Paundi aged 35 is facing raped charges and...Published: 22 Apr 2015 at 18:46hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Man threatens to infect wife with HIV
A Mutare woman brew a shocker at the Mutare Civil Courts last Tuesday when she revealed that her HIV-positive husband had threatened to rape her as punishment following her maintenance application....Published: 14 Feb 2015 at 11:59hrs | | by Tendai Gukutikwa
Man commits suicide after testing positive to TB
A 68-YEAR-OLD Mangwe man based in South Africa committed suicide by hanging as he feared that he could be HIV positive after he tested positive to tuberculosis. Mandla Mpofu's wife and childre...Published: 24 Jan 2015 at 20:28hrs | 3 | by Sukulwenkosi Dube
Nurse fakes HIV results
A NURSE employed at Gokwe District Hospital, who allegedly connived with a health non-governmental worker, employed by Global Fund to fake results of an HIV test in favour of the nurse's husband, was...Published: 08 Jan 2015 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wife killer gets 25 years in jail
A RUSAPE man Griffin Kavhura who last year bludgeoned his pregnant wifeBeauty Majazi after she pleaded with him to undergo HIV tests was last Wednesday slapped with a 25-year jail term after being con...Published: 03 Nov 2014 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Businessman forced to take HIV test
A PROMINENT Maphisa businessman in Kezi, Matabeleland South province, has indicated that he would file a lawsuit against the police for allegedly being forced to take HIV tests on three different occa...Published: 22 Sep 2014 at 08:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
HIV+ woman acquitted of 'wilfully' transmitting the virus
A Chitungwiza woman who was arraigned before the courts by her ex-husband over allegations that she deliberately infected him with HIV was on Monday acquitted of the charges.The court heard th...Published: 11 Sep 2014 at 08:00hrs | | by Lovemore Meya
Harare tops on STI infections
The number of people infected by sexually transmitted infections (STIs) has increased by over 19 percent in the second quarter of 2014 with Harare topping the list, a development that has been attribu...Published: 09 Sep 2014 at 18:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt to introduce HIV self-testing kits
Government will soon introduce HIV self-testing kits as a way to encourage people to know their HIV status, The Sunday Mail reported.The development follows revelations that of the 196 000 pe...Published: 07 Sep 2014 at 07:27hrs | | by Shamiso Yikoniko
11,000 flee their HIV results
ABOUT 11,000 people who were tested for HIV since last year have chickened out from collecting their results, according to the National Aids Council (Nac). The statistics were revealed at th...Published: 05 Sep 2014 at 06:38hrs | | by Leonard Ncube
Man hangs himself over HIV status
A 43-YEAR-OLD Chegutu man allegedly took his own life by hanging from a tree branch after he tested positive to HIV over the weekend.The deceased, identified as Joseph Mwanza of Hebadon F...Published: 26 Aug 2014 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man infects married woman with HIV
A cheating 43-year-old married Dangamvura woman has taken her neighbour-boyfriend to court alleging that he infected her with HIV.Steven Chiduku (40) was not asked to plead when he appeared b...Published: 25 Jun 2014 at 12:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gwanda men to grow breasts
A number of men in Gwanda District may soon develop breasts as they have reportedly been consuming birth control pills which they would have mistaken for antiretroviral drugs (ARVs), Matabeleland ...Published: 18 Jun 2014 at 16:14hrs | 1 | by Mafu Sithabile
CEOs spurn condoms, HIV tests
Zimbabwe's rich and mighty, among them top company executives, are said to be avoiding voluntary HIV/Aids testing as well as buying condoms over the counter fearing they might be labelled pr...Published: 16 Jun 2014 at 11:08hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Man jailed for raping, infecting niece with HIV
A MARANGE man who was in the habit of raping his 15-year-old niece since 2011 and eventually infected her with HIV has been sentenced to 20 years behind bars after he was on Tuesday convicted of commi...Published: 23 May 2014 at 12:32hrs | 1 | by Senior Court Reporter
Sangomas undergo voluntary HIV tests
THIRTY-four traditional medical practitioners were voluntarily tested for HIV during the capacity building workshop on HIV/Aids and other chronic diseases organised by the Sadc secretariat and the Min...Published: 05 Apr 2014 at 08:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
HIV infection rate continues to decline
The country's national HIV infection rate continues to decline on the back of increased behavioural change, the National Aids Council has revealed.According to the recently availed NAC report ...Published: 16 Mar 2014 at 07:43hrs | | by Staff Reporter
US announces $4 million additional aid to Zimbabwe
United States Ambassador Bruce Wharton has announced an additional $4 million in humanitarian food assistance to Zimbabwe bringing the total aid to $29 million towards 2,2 million people in ...Published: 11 Feb 2014 at 15:25hrs | 4 | by Bhebhe Mandla
Man hires prostitute, sleeps with her in wife's presence
A 20-year-old woman from Chitungwiza wept uncontrollably in court while narrating how her husband hired and slept with a commercial sex worker in her presence to fix her for refusing to undergo an HIV...Published: 02 Jun 2013 at 23:55hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Pregnant hooker a surprise hit at business centre
A pregnant prostitute has become a surprise hit with mostly truck drivers in the red-light district at Cross Dete business centre along the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls highway. The woman declined...Published: 16 May 2013 at 05:36hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Woman dumps hubby over STI
A HWANGE man will live to regret the day he parted ways with his hard-earned cash to "buy" sexually transmitted infection (STI) as it has cost him his marriage.The man was reportedly dumped by...Published: 03 May 2013 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Matobo traditional healer says he can cure HIV/AIDS
Tens of people have set camps at a homestead in Silozwi Village in Matobo District, Matabeleland South, after rumours filtered through that a youthful traditional healer had 'cured' three bed-ridden p...Published: 31 Mar 2013 at 08:34hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Dental patients urged to have HIV tests after exposure
Health officials are urging 7,000 patients of an Oklahoma, US dentist to be tested for potential exposure to HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C.The possible exposure happened at the dental prac...Published: 29 Mar 2013 at 04:34hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
School in HIV scandal
The government has launched investigations into reports that 100 pupils at Mavhudzi High School in Nyazura, Manicaland Province, were allegedly subjected to HIV tests without the consent of their par...Published: 04 Mar 2013 at 05:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sexual abuse claims land grade 7 pupil in hot soup
A Grade Seven pupil was allegedly victimised at Marlborough Primary School following claims that she was being sexually abused by her father.Allegations of victimisation started after an unkno...Published: 11 Feb 2013 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
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