Zimbabwe: MDC Senator - Give Prisoners Condoms to Reduce HIV Infections

An MDC Senator has called on government to accept the reality of rampant homosexuality in the country's prisons and provide measures to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs).

Thematic Committee on HIV/and AIDS chairperson Morgan Femai, after a visit to Chikirubi Maximum Prison, home to over 500 HIV positive inmates called on authorities to provide the prisoners with condoms in order to reduce prevalence and re-infections

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