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Bulawayo, Harare named as HIV hotspots
BULAWAYO, Harare, Ruwa and Chitungwiza have been identified as HIV hotspots with the highest number of infected people not on treatment amid reports that risky sexual behaviour continues to drive the ...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 06:55hrs | 525 | by Staff reporter
'Drought to severely affect HIV+ people'
A UNITED Nations (UN) organ has warned that people living with HIV will be severely affected by drought-induced hunger because they are unable to take life-saving treatment on empty stomachs.F...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 07:12hrs | 624 | by Staff reprter
What the fuel protests mean for Zimbabweans
Zimbabweans had been hoping for a fresh start when Robert Mugabe's 38-year rule came to an end in November 2017.But 14 months on, a brutal crackdown on fuel protests, which has left 17 people ...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 07:17hrs | 2214 | by IRIN
Zimbabwe sex vendors dollarise
GRIEF is the real price men pay for sex!With the festive season around the corner, some commercial sex workers in Bulawayo are literally running a promotion in which they are reportedly offeri...Published: 01 Dec 2018 at 14:29hrs | 3072 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records 250 new HIV infections weekly
ZIMBABWE is recording 250 new HIV infections weekly said to be fuelled mostly by adolescent girls, a development which may hinder progress towards ending Aids by 2030. The country, which has t...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 05:58hrs | 1022 | by Staff reporter
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 | 487 | by Staff reporter
DIY tests for HIV beat stigma in fight against Aids
When she discovered she was HIV-positive early this year, sex worker Evelyn Msipa (32), was alone in her rented apartment in Zimbabwe's capital city, Harare.Health and Child Care minister Davi...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 07:36hrs | 551 | by Reuters
Zimbabwe-born officially opens UNAids 2018 Conference
ZIMBABWE born and outgoing International Aids Society (IAS) president Linda Gail Bekker officially opened the UNAids 2018 Conference in Netherlands on Monday with a pledge to end Aids, tuberculosis an...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 07:38hrs | 227 | by Staff reporter
+50% of prostitutes HIV+
MORE than half of commercial sex workers in the country are HIV positive, UNAIDS has revealed in a report.According to the 2018 report released on Thursday, the country has 45 000 sex workers ...Published: 23 Jul 2018 at 06:51hrs | 619 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe government intensifies fight against Aids
THE Health and Child Care ministry has launched an 18-member validation committee to oversee the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis, as Zimbabwe gears up to become the fir...Published: 23 Jun 2018 at 07:15hrs | 659 | by Staff Reporter
Poverty driving teens into sex work
GROWING up as a young girl Suzie (not real name) never imagined that at 25 she could end up being HIV positive and a sex worker.Life obstacles and challenges forced her onto this path....Published: 01 Jun 2018 at 09:30hrs | 780 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Aids levy charms countries
HEALTH minister David Parirenyatwa has said Zimbabwe's National Aids Trust Fund has registered resounding success in the fight against HIV and Aids, with many neighbouring countries sending representa...Published: 03 Apr 2018 at 12:50hrs | 792 | by Staff reporter
Ending AIDS by 2030
Zimbabwe AIDS Network (ZAN) convened key populations with the objective of amplifying civil society voices around the need for domestic health funding, proposing strategies for effective key populatio...Published: 17 Mar 2018 at 08:19hrs | 357 | by NANGO
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 | 1014 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa to champion HIV/AIDS fight
The First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa and UNAIDS Country Director, Mr Girmay Haile this Tuesday agreed to embark on a historic partnership where the First Lady expressed commitment to play a strategic nat...Published: 24 Jan 2018 at 10:28hrs | 1048 | by Staff reporter
MLF applauds WHO over demotion of Mugabe
Mthwakazi Liberation Front has hailed the World Health Organisation for demoting president Robert Mugabe after he had been breifly appointed a Goodwill ambassador.The party said if the world h...Published: 24 Oct 2017 at 06:52hrs | 494 | by Stephen Jakes
UNAIDS calls to quicken the pace of action to end AIDS
NEW YORK - The President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, in collaboration with UNAIDS, brought together six heads of state or government to accelerate action and get countries on the Fast-Track to end AID...Published: 22 Sep 2017 at 12:44hrs | 428 | by APO
Male sex workers on the rise
THERE is an increase in the population of male sex workers that have sprouted around Harare and other towns and cities, it has emerged.While HIV programmers have been grappling with a high HIV...Published: 22 Aug 2017 at 17:55hrs | 4071 | by Staff reporter
African Union endorses major new initiatives to end AIDS
NEW YORK - African heads of state have endorsed two major new initiatives to help end AIDS by 2030. The community health workers initiative aims to recruit, train and deploy 2 million community health...Published: 05 Jul 2017 at 07:29hrs | 740 | by APO
Aids Levy to fund cancer fight
At least 7 000 new cases of cancer are recorded every year in Zimbabwe, resulting in 1 500 deaths. Moreover, 60 percent of these cancers are associated with HIV.As a result, the National Aids ...Published: 25 Jun 2017 at 12:06hrs | 85 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe targets boys in HIV response
Zimbabwe, with support from its partners, is targeting boys in its sexual reproductive health rights programmes as part of its HIV response amid concerns that the response was more focused on young wo...Published: 21 Jun 2017 at 19:34hrs | 683 | by Staff reporter
'Distribute condoms to prisoners'
Government must make tough decisions to curb further prevalence of HIV and Aids among groups hardest hit by the disease, health stakeholders have said. These decisions include distribution of ...Published: 13 Jun 2017 at 06:26hrs | 173 | by Staff reporter
'14 percent of Zimbabwean adults HIV+'
AT LEAST 14% of Zimbabwean adults are HIV positive, with women being the worst affected, a 2016 household-based national survey by the Zimbabwe Population Based HIV Impact Assessment (Zimphia)...Published: 21 Apr 2017 at 06:40hrs | 382 | by Staff reporter
'Political leaders should use local health facilities,' says Chaka Chaka
South African top singer and United Nations goodwill ambassador for malaria and children welfare Yvonne Chaka Chaka has challenged government leaders to utilise local health institutions just like...Published: 24 Mar 2017 at 05:39hrs | 240 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe dragged into AIDS fight
President Robert Mugabe has been urged to issue a decree compelling HIV testing to be compulsory for all citizens.The Citizens Aids Survival Trust (Cast), a local Aids organization...Published: 28 Feb 2017 at 05:29hrs | 356 | by Alice Dube
110 million condoms distributed in 2016
At least 110 million condoms were distributed in 2016 alone a figure which ministry of Health officials say shows that Zimbabweans are now playing it safe.In a statement ahead of the Inter...Published: 14 Feb 2017 at 06:06hrs | 763 | 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 | 789 | by Juliette Martin
Sex at knifepoint
SEX workers in the mining town of Zvishavane are living in fear of artisinal miners who are allegedly using machetes to demand unprotected free sex.Popularly known as 'mabhemba', the makorokoz...Published: 01 Dec 2016 at 16:23hrs | 1451 | by Staff reporter
Importance of TB infection control in the fight against HIV/AIDS
A senior official of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC- Zimbabwe) has said the new national HealthCare Associated Tuberculosis Infection Prevention Project - Zimbabwe (...Published: 11 Nov 2016 at 09:32hrs | 674 | by Stephen Jakes
Shava's new UN appointment inappropriate
The recent appointment of Zanu PF's convicted fraudster, Fredrick Shava, as the president of the respected United Nations' Economic and Social Council (Ecosoc) is inappropriate for Zimbabwe and the UN...Published: 04 Oct 2016 at 17:16hrs | 1571 | by Willias Madzimure - PDP Secretary for International Relations
Have new HIV infections around the globe dropped in 'any meaningful way'?
The head of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative said new HIV infection rates haven't dropped in any meaningful way. The data shows that this is mostly true for ...Published: 16 Sep 2016 at 10:49hrs | 871 | by Vinayak Bhardwaj
Is Zimbabwe's condom use per person the highest in the world?
Zimbabwe had 157 million male and female condoms available in 2015 and a relatively high self-reported use of condoms among adults who have multiple sexual partnerships. But is their condom use per ca...Published: 10 Aug 2016 at 10:33hrs | 1427 | by Researched by Vinayak Bhardwaj
Zimbabwe ARV drugs stock to run out in September
The government has been called upon to urgently come up with a budget for antiretroviral drugs, which are expected to run out of stock by September.Addressing people living with HIV and Aids a...Published: 23 Jun 2016 at 07:20hrs | 2664 | by Staff reporter
Circumcision dilemma for men with 'small' organs
MEN with small reproductive organs cannot be circumcised using the PrePex device leaving them with only the option of a surgical operation, experts have said. Health experts have been marketin...Published: 20 Mar 2016 at 09:20hrs | 2047 | by Robin Muchetu
New U.S. funding to boost Zim adherence to new WHO guidelines
The United States Global AIDS coordinator, Ambassador Deborah Birx, says Zimbabwe is among countries that are receiving additional funding from the new US$150 million commitment by the President's Eme...Published: 05 Dec 2015 at 07:18hrs | 1242 | by Stephen Jakes
Eto'o snubs Zimbabwe invite
Global football star Samuel Eto'o, who was billed to officially open the community village running alongside the 18th International Conference on Aids and STIs in Africa, failed to turn up amid revela...Published: 01 Dec 2015 at 05:22hrs | 2813 | by Staff reporter
'Fast-track HIV response,' says Mnangagwa
Africa needs to fast track its efforts towards responding to HIV and Aids to meet the set global target of ending the pandemic by 2030, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said. Officially o...Published: 30 Nov 2015 at 05:11hrs | 868 | by Paidamoyo Chipunza
Zimbabwe: Scourge of Child Marriage - Video
Child marriage in Africa often ends a girl's education, exposes her to domestic violence and grave health risks from early childbearing and HIV, and traps her in poverty, Human Rights Watch said today...Published: 26 Nov 2015 at 10:05hrs | 2498 | by Dewa Mavhinga
UNAids pledges more support to Zimbabwe
UNAIDS executive director Luiz Loures has said his organisation is prepared to mobilise more resources to support countries such as Zimbabwe to implement new HIV treatment guidelines that the Worl...Published: 12 Oct 2015 at 08:36hrs | 3011 | by Staff reporter
50% of Zimbabwean prostitutes are HIV+
FIFTY percent of prostitutes in the country are living with HIV and 10 percent of them are infected every year, the Centre for Sexual Health and HIV and Aids Research (CeSHHAR) has revealed. T...Published: 09 Oct 2015 at 08:21hrs | 4983 | by Adelaide Moyo
Zimbabwe raps Clinton, UN agencies
GOVERNMENT is disturbed that some United Nations agencies have turned themselves into lobby groups who think they have the locus standi to snipe at a sitting Head of State and Government like Presiden...Published: 06 Oct 2015 at 06:19hrs | 1710 | by Takunda Maodza
ZLHR convenes two day budget expenditure seminar
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has convened a two day meeting to discuss budget expenditure so as to establish if the financial resources are put into good use.ZLHR communicati...Published: 30 Sep 2015 at 07:29hrs | 1899 | by Stephen Jakes
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 | 2734 | by Staff Reporter
Why Zimbabwe sex traders ignore condoms
In the heart of Bulawayo's central business district, a group of young women lurk below the giant jacaranda trees that shut out the street lights, daubing their faces with makeup and adjusting their s...Published: 10 Sep 2015 at 15:16hrs | 21511 | by Marko Phiri
Mugabe forced to host gays, lesbians
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe does not hide his disdain for gays and lesbians and is on record describing homosexuals as "worse that pigs and dogs" and homosexuality as a "white problem".Mugabe's 19...Published: 07 Sep 2015 at 13:41hrs | 4184 | 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 | 3391 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe one of few countries to reduce HIV, Aids pandemic
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 the global response to the dise...Published: 18 Jul 2015 at 14:26hrs | 4063 | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe's rural hometown among HIV hotspots'
MASHONALAND West districts such as President Robert Mugabe's rural home, Zvimba, are emerging as the country's potential HIV hotspots, according to a recent National Aids Council (NAC) survey that li...Published: 02 Jul 2015 at 15:57hrs | 2717 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean researchers criticise Dutch newspaper on HIV trials
The 5-day interest workshop has ended in the capital with local researchers expressing shock over false allegations peddled by a Dutch newspaper about Zimbabwe.A daily newspaper, Wemos, based ...Published: 10 May 2015 at 15:46hrs | 5040 | by Staff reporter
SADC adopts WHO guidelines on anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment
The UNAIDS leadership says the 2013 World Health Organisation guidelines which require people with a CD4 count of 500 to go on anti-retroviral treatment are necessary even though they will create chal...Published: 21 Oct 2014 at 14:05hrs | 2978 | by Staff Reporter
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