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Zimbabwe needs US$10 million to procure condoms
Zimbabwe needs to raise over US$10 million from domestic sources to support condom procurement for 2025 and 2026 due to the withdrawal of donor funding. The country has three markets for condoms: publ...Published: 29 Jul 2024 at 04:11hrs | 92 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland tops HIV prevalence rate
Matabeleland South Province has emerged as one of Zimbabwe's regions with the highest HIV prevalence rates, reaching 17.30% in 2023. This high prevalence is attributed to the province's proximity ...Published: 15 Jul 2024 at 08:25hrs | 255 | by Staff reporter
Harare's haven of sex, drugs and vice
Esnath first traded sex at age 13, after she was forced out of her family home in Harare's old suburb of Mbare.To survive, she decided to lie about her age, she said, taking refuge with a grou...Published: 03 Mar 2024 at 08:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe HIV prevention and accountability report launched
The National Coalition on HIV Prevention recently launched an HIV Prevention and Accountability Report for 2023.The report, launched in Harare, captures the perspectives of communities and civ...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 10:32hrs | 4 | 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 | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe achieves milestone in HIV/AIDS Fight, recognized among top performers in Africa
Zimbabwe has emerged as one of the leading nations in Africa making significant progress in the battle against HIV/AIDS, surpassing the 95-95-95 targets set by UNAIDS well ahead of schedule. The comme...Published: 10 Dec 2023 at 09:49hrs | 13 | by Staff Reporter
'Zimbabwe can become Africa's medicine hub'
WITHOUT the heavy burden of illegal economic sanctions, Zimbabwe can become a medicine hub for Africa as it has a vibrant industrial base and requisite infrastructure, a senior United Nations official...Published: 06 Dec 2023 at 05:01hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Ex female Minister says it's time Zimbabwe legalises sex work
UNAIDS notes that sex workers often experience violence from the police, clients, and partners, increasing their risk of HIV transmission. The prevalence of HIV among sex workers in Zimbabwe is notabl...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 05:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa hails HIV fight gains
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has attributed Zimbabwe's population growth to significant achievements in HIV prevention and a reduced maternal mortality rate.Zimbabwe has made substantial progr...Published: 10 Oct 2023 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
HIV infections hit record low in Zimhbabwe
ZIMBABWE recorded the biggest reduction in the number of new HIV infections in Sub-Saharan Africa over the last 12 years and was one of only five countries that surpassed the United Nations Programme ...Published: 16 Jul 2023 at 09:07hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Hosts Workshop on Integrating Non-Communicable Diseases and Mental Health Components in HIV Programming for Global Fund
HARARE - Representatives from Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe, whose funding request proposals are due for submission to the Global Fund, are meeting in Harare, Zimbabwe from 19-21 Ap...Published: 20 Apr 2023 at 19:04hrs | 4 | by APO
Chiwenga in Tanzania
Vice President and Minister of Health and Child Care, Dr Constantino Chiwenga, has arrived in Tanzania to lead Zimbabwe's participation at the Political Launch of the Global Alliance to end AIDS in ch...Published: 01 Feb 2023 at 07:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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
Sex work now the 'most mentioned source of income' in Harare
High unemployment and the increasing cost of living are fuelling a rise in sex work in Zimbabwe.It is now the most mentioned source of income in Harare, according to a survey by the Zimbabwe C...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 08:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Time Africa solved its own problems'
HEALTH and Child Care deputy minister John Mangwiro has urged African countries to resolve their own problems, particularly tackling HIV/Aids and other diseases.Mangwiro made the remarks at th...Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 05:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo, Harare, Matebeleland South top HIV stats
MATABELELAND South has the highest HIV prevalence in the country at 21,9 percent, latest official statistics show, in what experts attribute to spousal separation caused by migration to neighbouring S...Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga says 'more innovative health solutions critical'
Government has pledged to be innovative and always on hand to curb threats posed by Covid-19 in the country's quest to attain high health standards for citizens. Vice President Dr Constantino ...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 06:46hrs | | 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 | | by Staff reporter
Fighting HIV and AIDS in times of COVID-19
The World AIDS Day is marked every on 1st December every year to raise awareness about the disease. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) is the UN entity tasked with fighting HIV in...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 17:37hrs | | by Zipporah Musau
Circumcision a racist experiment on black boys, says Study
CRITICAL appraisal has dismissed World Health Organisation ( WHO)-recommended campaigns to circumcise millions of African boys and men to reduce HIV transmission as mere systemic racism and "neo-colon...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
HIV new infections in children below 14 rise 22%
ZIMBABWE recorded a 22 percent increase in the number of new HIV infections among children aged 14 years and below, statistics from a UNAids report show. According to UNAids, new infections fo...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Scrapping of 'small house' clause a plus in Aids fight
"Ko small house yako inani izvozvi?" (Who is with your small house right now?) was a screaming signature message on a number of billboards erected around the country by the Ministry of Health and Chil...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 07:26hrs | 1 | by Forward Nyanyiwa
'BCC has no HIV viral load testing machines'
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) health department does not have viral load testing (VLT) machines that are critical in anti-retroviral treatment (ART) for HIV-positive patients.As a result, co...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 08:22hrs | | 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 | 9 | 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 | 6 | 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
780 000 Zimbabwean young women HIV+
A UNAIDS report has ranked Zimbabwe third in the Sadc region in the numbers of HIV positive young women and girls.The report blames the high statistics on legal and policy barriers that hinder...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 11:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
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 | | 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 | 1 | 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 | 9 | 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 | | 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 | 10 | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | 3 | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | 1 | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | 1 | 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 | | 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 | | by Staff reporter
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