It's A Long Walk to ARVs For Zimbabwe Villagers Living With HIV
Ease of access to health care is of great importance in any country but particularly for villagers living with HIV and AIDS, being forced to walk distances of up 150km to collect their quarterly allocations of anti-retroviral drugs put them at risk of mortality from the pandemic, New Zimbabwe's Robert Tapfumaneyi reports.
ARVs (file photo).
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Zimbabwe:
Masvingo Has 12% HIV/Aids Prevalence Rate - Report
New Zimbabwe, 6 November 2018
An average of 12 people out of 100 are living with HIV/Aids in Masvingo province, National Aids Council (NAC) provincial manager Edgar Muzulu has said. Read more »
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Zimbabwe:
Students Reject 'Smelly' Freely Distributed Contraceptive
New Zimbabwe, 7 November 2018
Students at Masvingo Polytechnic College are using at least 3 000 male condoms per month although some are less inspired by what they find as a pungent smell produced by the freely… Read more »
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Zimbabwe:
Zimbabwe Scales Up HIV, TB Fights As Aids Levy Pays Off
263Chat, 14 September 2018
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Zimbabwe:
Sino-Africa HIV/Aids Initiative a Milestone
The Herald, 11 September 2018
The just-ended 2018 Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) might have come and gone, but it heralded the dawn of a refreshing new era, which if… Read more »
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Zimbabwe:
First Lady Vows to Fight HIV, Aids
The Herald, 30 August 2018
First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa yesterday vowed to work tirelessly in the fight against HIV and Aids, and to champion national and international advocacy efforts to end the pandemic… Read more »
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Zimbabwe:
Increasing Cases of Drug-Resistant HIV Worrisome
The Herald, 11 August 2018
The introduction of antiretroviral therapy globally has certainly transformed HIV and AIDS from a terminal to a chronic disease with standards of living for people with the virus… Read more »
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