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Suspended HIV services resume and vaginal ring returns
After months of uncertainty and suspended services, HIV prevention efforts in Masvingo have received a major boost with the resumption of long-acting injectable Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) and the...Published: 24 Jun 2025 at 12:36hrs | 1122 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland tops HIV prevalence in Zimbabwe?
Matebeleland North Province has been identified as having the second-highest HIV prevalence rate in Zimbabwe at 14.4 percent, trailing only behind Matebeleland South, which leads with 17.3 percent. Th...Published: 29 May 2025 at 10:16hrs | 152 | by Staff reporter
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
Harare's sex workers become targets for criminals
SAMANTHA GARWE aged 27 sits on a pavement in one of the streets of Harare; head bowed sobbing finding solace in the arms of colleagues.A sight that on-lookers could not escape, Garwe who was w...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 06:55hrs | 10 | 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
NAC suffers negative responses from male sex workers
The sharp increase in the number of male sex workers has raised concern to National Aids Council (NAC) though most of them shun the help and consideration.The NAC coordinator for Kwekwe urban ...Published: 22 Dec 2022 at 16:32hrs | 4 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
57% of Zimbabwe's sex workers HIV positive
CENTRE for Sexual Health, HIV and Aids Research (CeSHHAR) says more than 57% of female sex workers in the country's 22 hotspot areas are HIV positive.The revelations follow another study by th...Published: 24 Nov 2022 at 05:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Night curfew is killing us' Sex workers moan
A LOBBY group fighting for the rights of female sex workers says the extended lockdown restrictions and night curfew hours have curtailed their work, as business for them flourishes during the night....Published: 30 Jan 2021 at 05:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
'End violence against sex workers'
THE Centre for Sexual Health, HIV and Aids Research (CeSHHAR) yesterday expressed concern that cases of violence on sex workers were escalating.CeSHHAR told delegates during the commemoration ...Published: 22 Dec 2020 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
45% sex workers HIV-positive
ABOUT 40 percent of sex workers in Zimbabwe are HIV-positive and have been subjected to some forms of stigma and discrimination which affects their health seeking behaviour. According to Avert...Published: 24 Oct 2020 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Married women sleep around more than sex workers'
A Commercial sex worker has claimed that married women sleep around more than sex workers.In a video posted by 263Chat on Twitter the unnamed sex worked is filmed saying, "Married women c...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 13:56hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'80% of Bulawayo men who patronise bars and the red light districts are gay'
CALL it double dipping!Panic has gripped the Bulawayo community after shocking and controversial statistics revealed that 80 percent of Bulawayo men that patronise bars and the red light distr...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 16:39hrs | 6 | 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 | 2 | by Staff reporter
ARVs for high-risk groups
Government has started giving out antiretroviral drugs to selected HIV negative people who are at high risk of contracting the virus, to reduce chances of infection, Dreams and Key Population coordina...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cops demand sex from female sex workers
Female prostitutes operating in the Bulawayo city centre have expressed dismay over the abuse they endure at the hands of police officers who continuously arrest them and demand sex in return for thei...Published: 13 Apr 2018 at 07:39hrs | 2 | 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 | 1 | by NANGO
Sex workers in HIV, TB campaign
IN the enclave of Temeraire Mine, health issues has become a dominant subject, with sex workers spearheading the campaign against HIV and tuberculosis (TB) by distributing information to men before th...Published: 15 Feb 2018 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
7 000 sex workers in Bulawayo!
THE Ministry of Health and Child Care estimates that there are about 44 586 sex workers in the country aged between 15 and 49 years and nearly 7 000 of them operate in Bulawayo.According to th...Published: 11 Dec 2017 at 04:19hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
HIV/Aids prevalence in sex workers is around 55%
THE Ministry of Health and Child Care estimates that there are about 44 586 sex workers in the country aged between 15 and 49 years and nearly 7 000 of them operate in Bulawayo.According to th...Published: 05 Dec 2017 at 05:26hrs | | by Staff reoorter
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
Police arrest female sex workers using outdated laws - Judge rules
Police are a still arrested unsuspected women based on a law that was scrapped in 2006. Most women are being arrested under for a non-existent crime of loitering for the purposes of prost...Published: 28 Mar 2016 at 10:08hrs | 7 | 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 | | by Marko Phiri
Boost for sex workers
MHONDORO-Ngezi sex workers are now able to protect themselves from violent clients after receiving self defensive sprays.A total of 25 sex workers received sprays after completing training on ...Published: 13 Feb 2015 at 15:50hrs | 2 | by Mirirai Nsingo
Zim-Escorts recruits first male hookers
ZIMESCORTS agency, the foreign based company that has set up a prostitution website that advertises sex workers in Zimbabwe, has recruited its first male prostitutes to cater for female clients, Sunda...Published: 08 Sep 2013 at 06:43hrs | 220 | by Staff reporter
Hookers abstain from STI cure
Most Zimbabwean sex workers are not seeking medical treatment for sexually transmitted infections. The Daily News reports that only one in three female sex workers receive adequate HIV prevent...Published: 02 Sep 2013 at 06:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
HIV Vulnerability Among Female Sex Workers in Ghana: IOM Study
GENEVA, Switzerland - IOM Ghana has published a new behavioural study of HIV and population mobility: HIV Vulnerability Among Female Sex Workers Along Ghana's Tema-Paga Transport Corridor."The...Published: 15 Apr 2013 at 06:58hrs | | by APO
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