HIV and Aids

“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.
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An acute shortage of anti-retroviral drugs in public health institutions is reportedly forcing patients to switch to drug combinations which compromise their health. Some hospitals are said to be offering ARVs meant for children to adults.
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Nurses in Zimbabwe are now allowed to put HIV-positive patients on antiretroviral drugs, a task that was previously reserved for doctors. All this courtesy of a change in the nurses’ scope of work introduced by the Nurses’ Council of…
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Many people in Zimbabwe are scared to know their HIV status. Status awareness appears to have increased as results from a national survey showed that the percentage of people ever tested for HIV increased from 36 percent in 2007 at baseline…
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The government is in a dilemma on what to do with commercial sex workers who are expected to troop into the country for the United Nations World Trade Organisation General Assembly to be co-hosted by Zimbabwe and Zambia next year.
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More than 100 people, including legislators and parliament staff have undergone voluntary counselling and testing in an effort to encourage ordinary people to follow suit. More legislators will publicly undergo voluntary counselling and…
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KADOMA- Women should always have bald heads, lose weight and dress shabbily to reduce their attractiveness as part of measures to curb the spread of HIV, MDC-T Senator for Chikomo, Morgan Femai said yesterday.
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HARARE - Three great musicians from Zimbabwe and Botswana, superstar Oliver Mtukudzi, king of dancehall, Winky D and Vee of the Taku Taku fame have merged their creative talents to come up with a song to mobilise men for circumcision.
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BULAWAYO- Deputy Prime Minister Thokozani Khupe yesterday revealed that she has lost one breast to cancer as she upped her battle against stigma. Khupe condemned the perpetuation of stigma around certain diseases like HIV and Aids and…
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Speaker of Parliament, Lovemore Moyo on Saturday claimed that a number of MPs are suffering from Aids with some having lost their spouses to the disease. Moyo made the claims at a prayer meeting for Deputy Prime Minister Thokozani Khupe…
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