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Friday, 03 May 2013 10:40
HARARE - As Zimbabwe continues to scale up efforts in the fight against HIV/Aids which has been around for the past three decades, Daily News Features Editor Thelma Chikwanha had a conversation with UNAIDS Country Coordinator Tatiana Shoumilina to find out...Read More
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Tuesday, 30 April 2013 10:57
HARARE - We commend government’s efforts in scaling up the HIV/Aids fight. The fact that 600 000 people living with HIV are now accessing ARVs is a reason for much celebration. Aids is responsible for killing at least six million Zimbabweans...Read More
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Tuesday, 30 April 2013 09:56
HARARE - At least 600 000 people living with HIV now have access to antiretroviral drugs as the country scales up efforts to fight a disease which has killed about 25 million people worldwide since it was discovered in the early...Read More
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News » Gugulethu Nyazema, Staff Writer
Friday, 12 April 2013 12:40
HARARE - National Aids Council (Nac) is training 360 traditional healers across the country on HIV prevention and treatment. Traditional healers are being trained so that they understand HIV issues and also give their clients information about the epidemic and treatment...Read More
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Features » Farai Mutsaka, News Editor
Wednesday, 27 March 2013 10:46
ZVISHAVANE - It is deep down in the bush but this is where pillow talk rules the roost and sex has ceased being that dirty a word. People living with HIV in Midlands Province’s deep rural areas from Gokwe to Mapirimira...Read More
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News » Gugulethu Nyazema, Staff Writer
Wednesday, 13 March 2013 10:58
HARARE - They usually appear macho and all-conquering, but Zimbabwean men are turning out to be the weaker sex when it comes to health matters. So lily-livered are Zimbabwean men that the majority of them cannot even muster enough courage to...Read More
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Tuesday, 08 January 2013 10:46
HARARE - Superstar Oliver Mtukudzi has moved to permanently quash unrelenting speculation about his HIV status, declaring in an interview with CNN, “I am not HIV positive.” Tuku, one of Zimbabwe’s most successful musicians, has previously battled wild rumours of ill-health...Read More
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Monday, 10 December 2012 09:33
HARARE - “My son Shakespeare, do not go around shaking your spear everywhere,” exclaimed Albert Nyathi as he recited his poem My Son, at the unveiling of a World Aids Day theme song initiated by a youth singing sensation Theo Phoenyll....Read More
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Monday, 03 December 2012 13:31
HARARE - Legislators should devise strategies that will ensure the country’s lucrative mining sector contributes towards the Aids Levy, Health minister Henry Madzorera said. Speaking during the World Aids Day in Beitbridge on Saturday, Madzorera implored Cabinet to review the National...Read More
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Friday, 30 November 2012 10:48
HARARE - Bottlenecks disrupting HIV treatment and other support systems may trigger another crisis at a time when Zimbabwe is basking in the glory of declining prevalence rates, a report has revealed. The document, titled Opportunistic Infections (OI) and Art (Anti-retroviral...Read More
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Wednesday, 28 November 2012 10:06
HARARE - Zimbabwe has missed the 2012 HIV testing and counselling target by 13 percent, the National Aids Council (Nac) has said. Statistics released by the coordinating and facilitating body of the national multi-sectoral response to HIV and Aids, show that...Read More
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Wednesday, 07 November 2012 10:11
HARARE - HIV and Aids activists have blamed the ministry of Health for challenges perennially faced by people on life-prolonging anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs. People on ARVs have repeatedly complained that shortages of drugs in public hospitals have constantly forced them to...Read More
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Wednesday, 24 October 2012 09:37
HARARE - AIDS activists Douglas Muzanenhamo was arrested by police on Monday for distributing constitutional material at the just-ended Constitution Select Committee (Copac)’s Second All-Stakeholders’ Conference, according to Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR). In a statement last night, ZLHR said...Read More
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Thursday, 18 October 2012 09:32
HARARE - A Belvedere businessman who kept $700 000 in a kitchen was dealt a body blow when his maids nicked the money and blew it on cars and houses. Jamil Farogh lost the staggering cash when his three maids discovered...Read More
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Monday, 15 October 2012 13:04
BULAWAYO - Mainstream MDC deputy organising secretary Abdenico Bhebhe has blamed high HIV/Aids prevalence in Zimbabwe on Zanu PF’s mismanagement of the economy. Addressing more than 600 MDC supporters in Inyathi, Matabeleland North on Saturday Bhebhe said HIV/Aids is usually...Read More
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