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Zimbabwe winning HIV/AIDS fight
Zimbabwe has registered considerable success in the quest to end HIV in children through the way it targets pregnant women and is now urging global peers to embrace the strategy.This came up a...Published: 31 Jan 2023 at 23:44hrs | 5 | 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 | | 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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sadc still epicentre of HIV epidemic
ZIMBABWE still accounts for many HIV infections in the Sadc region amid reports that 42 percent of sex workers and 28 percent of prisoners are positive countrywide. The country has the fifth h...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
New HIV cases in Zimbabwe drop by 38%
NEW HIV infections in Zimbabwe have gone down by 38 percent since 2010, statistics from the Ministry of Health and Child Care show. In a joint statement with UNAids on the launch of HIV ...Published: 15 Jun 2019 at 08:54hrs | | 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 | 4 | by Brian Maregedze
New HIV infections statistics worry Govt
THE Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC) has expressed concern over the rise in new HIV infections especially among adults, which is threatening national efforts to end AIDS by 2030.Accor...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 06:09hrs | | 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 | | by Daniel Itai
Zimbabwe targets HIV free generation by 2030
Zimbabwe has reiterated its commitment to end AIDS as well as achieve an HIV/AIDS free generation by 2030.This was said by the First Lady Amai Auxillia Mnangagwa when she addressed the 20th Or...Published: 29 Jan 2018 at 15:16hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Pregnant HIV+ mothers face jail
PREGNANT HIV-positive mothers who do not take precaution to prevent transmission of the virus to their unborn babies are liable for prosecution and face up to 20 years in prison under the country's la...Published: 17 Dec 2017 at 07:23hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Dr Stamps' hero status to be decided
ZANU-PF has said it will be guided by recommendations coming from the Office of the President and Cabinet on the hero status of the late Health Advisor to the President and Cabinet Dr Timothy Stamps....Published: 28 Nov 2017 at 05:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's health advisor dies
Health Advisor to the President and Cabinet Dr Timothy Stamps has died.He was 81.Dr Stamps, who is the former Minister of Health and Child Care, died yesterday afternoon at Borrowdale ...Published: 27 Nov 2017 at 05:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
HIV test dodgers fined
VILLAGERS in Gokwe in Midlands province are allegedly being fined a goat by their chiefs if they fail to go for HIV testing or accompany their pregnant wives for antenatal care.Addressing prov...Published: 16 Jun 2016 at 14:23hrs | | by Patrick Chitumba
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
New CDC Zimbabwe head advocate for increased efforts towards elimination of HIV
New Country Director at the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in Zimbabwe, Dr. Beth Tippett Barr, says she will continue to advocate for more U.S. support to make the virtual e...Published: 26 Sep 2015 at 06:50hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Zim among countries set to reduce HIV and AIDs pandemic- report
Media reports have revealed that Zimbabwe is among countries that have significantly reduced the HIV and Aids pandemic, according to a latest United Nations Programme on HIV/Aids (UNAIDS) report on th...Published: 24 Aug 2015 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Botswana President concerned over ART cost
FRANCISTOWN - Botswana's President Ian Khama on Thursday expressed concern over the escalating cost of the anti-retroviral therapy.President Khama voiced his concern while addressing the ...Published: 03 Jan 2015 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Govt to encourage parents living with HIV to have their children tested
Government will soon embark on a campaign to encourage parents on HIV treatment to have their children tested as well.At an HIV and Aids workshop organised by the National Aids Council in Kad...Published: 27 Sep 2014 at 09:00hrs | | by Paidamoyo Chipunza
'12% of Zimbabwean couples HIV sero-discordant'
At least 12 percent of couples in Zimbabwe are HIV sero-discordant, a situation believed to be an epicentre of HIV transmission.A sero-discordant relationship, also known as "magnetic" or "mi...Published: 30 Jun 2014 at 14:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Over 100 000 HIV+ children fail to access ARVs
Nearly 100 500 children living with HIV in Zimbabwe are failing to access anti-retroviral treatment (Art) due to a shortage of skilled manpower to administer medication and inadequate laboratory capa...Published: 22 Jun 2014 at 07:29hrs | | 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 | | by Mafu Sithabile
Condom uptake must cascade to use
The HIV story should remain topical and the media has a role to have it remain visible, this was said by the Deputy Minister of Media, Information and Publicity Honourable Supa Mandiwanzira at ...Published: 12 Jun 2014 at 07:13hrs | | by Catherine Murombedzi
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
Baby born with multiple body parts
It sounds like a story from a fiction book, one where extraordinary human beings of different shapes and sizes fit perfectly into an author's script. To the ordinary population of Mhondoro, a ...Published: 20 Jan 2014 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Men infect 14,000 children with HIV in Zimbabwe
LACK of male involvement and support in the prevention-of-mother-to-child-transmission of HIV programmes is hampering Government efforts to reduce child maternal mortality.According to the Hea...Published: 10 Sep 2013 at 04:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to introduce new method of taking ARVs
The Government will soon introduce a new method of administering anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs to pregnant women as part of efforts to eliminate mother-to-child HIV infections. The method, known as Opti...Published: 08 Sep 2013 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Limited access to early infant diagnosis affects HIV transmission reduction
LIMITED access to early infant diagnosis (EID) has been hampering efforts to reduce the rate of mother-to-child HIV transmission from 14% to less than 5% by 2015, a local health organisation has said....Published: 04 Aug 2013 at 18:19hrs | | by Staff Reporter
25 percent of babies born with HIV in Zim, mothers shunning ART
At least 25 percent of children born with HIV in Zimbabwe are a result of mothers who would have shunned anti-retroviral Therapy (ART), a senior Government health official has said. Minis...Published: 04 Nov 2012 at 05:43hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Severe shortage of ARVs, patients forced to share
BULAWAYO has been hit by a severe shortage of anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs amid reports that 1 090 children are dying in the country every week from HIV and Aids.It has also emerged that 15 00...Published: 10 Jul 2012 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records reduction in HIV infections
ZIMBABWE has realised a significant decline in new HIV infections in adults due to changes in sexual behaviour, a National Aids Council (NAC) official has said.The reduction in multiple partne...Published: 01 Jun 2012 at 05:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe AIDS Network holds its national bi-annual conference
The Zimbabwe AIDS Network (ZAN) is set to hold its national bi-annual conference on Wednesday under the theme "Scaling up, owning and sustaining c...Published: 22 Nov 2011 at 08:27hrs | | by Mathews Estell
Mugabe blasts promiscuous Govt officials for spreading HIV-Aids
Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe castigated some Government officials for contributing to the spread of HIV and Aids through promiscuity.Officially opening Zimbabwe's second National HIV and ...Published: 06 Sep 2011 at 08:50hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Zimbabwe government officials spreading HIV-Aids: Mugabe
PRESIDENT Mugabe has castigated some Government officials for contributing to the spread of HIV and Aids through promiscuity.Officially opening Zimbabwe's second National HIV and Aids conferen...Published: 06 Sep 2011 at 04:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Government targets to reduce HIV infections in pregnant women
The Zimbabwean government has targeted to reduce HIV infections in pregnant women from 25 percent to 5 percent by 2015 through increasing Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) services....Published: 03 Sep 2011 at 05:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC upgrades prevention of parent to child transmission of HIV programme
Bulawayo's Prevention of Parent to Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) programme has been upgraded to the More Enhanced Regiment for pregnant mothers where HIV positive mothers are given combination a ...Published: 27 Aug 2011 at 19:15hrs | | by Mafu Sithabile
Major Commitment Made to Dramatically Accelerate the Elimination of Pediatric HIV-AIDS in Zimbabwe
Harare - The Government's national program to eliminate pediatric HIV/AIDS has received a significant boost with an award by the London-based Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) to the Eli...Published: 20 Jan 2011 at 19:20hrs | | by Byo24NEWS
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