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HARARE’S streets were bustling with people hurrying home after a hard work’s day. The traffic jam made it impossible for motorist to move from point A to B. Every peak hour is now turning Harare into a traffic jungle. In fact, it is -
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HOW far can a girl go to lead a trendy and comfortable life? One needs to get a good education at least to first dream about that. I have a different story though. Nancy (not her real name) lived in Harare’s Avenues, alone. She -
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SOME people have lived with HIV for many years without the need for anti-retroviral treatment. ARVs are necessary when one’s health deteriorates. When one has their health monitored it may not be -
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A concerned workmate asked me recently if it was possible for one to temporarily stop taking ARVs. My response was a strong NO and I queried why he was asking? He narrated to me that on his last -
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It is Christmas time and many people who work outside the country are flocking home to spend time with their loved ones and families. The streets have a sizeable number of cars with foreign -
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A music producer has taken a giant leap in his efforts to reduce stigma and discrimination on people living with HIV and Aids. Webster Mapanda, of Log-a-rhythm, has been in the music industry since
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“THIS cannot happen to me. I cannot be HIV positive,” is all that one youth said to Mrs Tariro Chikwanha of Zengeza 4. The youth looked sickly and Mrs Chikwanha had enquired if she had ever taken an HIV test. Mrs Chikwanha runs an organisation, Dreams HIV and Aids Youth Network which she registered as a trust in 2008. She works from Utano Clinic in Chitungwiza, where she lives.
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AS Zimbabwe joins the rest of the world in commemorating World Aids Day tomorrow (December 1) in Dulibadzimu, Beitbridge; it is time we remember orphaned and vulnerable children.
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One does not need to be HIV positive to be passionate in making a difference to the lives of those infected and those affected with the virus. Youths growing up in a difficult environment in Hatcliffe Extension came together and founded an organisation that sought to bring relief to the hard lives they and their peers faced. Vision HIV/Aids was formed in 2005 by youths. They were directly affected by HIV and Aids as there were many orphans in their midst. The youths came together to assist fellow orphans and vulnerable children aged between 0-18 years.
They later spread to marginalised areas in Harare to cover Hopely, Whitecliffe, Caledonia and Epworth. Funds permitting they intend to cast their net wider. This festive season, the group has launched a festive hamper promotion and seeks to see that children within their reach do not go hungry. "We would like to see that no child living under difficult circumstances goes to bed -
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Sometime last week I was wearing a T-shirt carrying an HIV message by Elisabeth Glaser Foundation that read: “Reduce HIV infection to your child, register pregnancy at 14 weeks or earlier”. Usually one does not realise the transcending effect such a message carries. I got a lift from a taxi -
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Zimbabwe joins the rest of the world to mark World Aids Day on December 1. It is 25 years after the first case was reported in Zimbabwe and in the US the first case was in 1981. By 1988 all blood products were screened for HIV locally. The International Aids Society saw the need to have a -
Rutendo is 22 and her age mates are in college or have just started formal work. Rutendo lives on a farm in Hatcliffe, 40km out of Harare. Being peri-urban, the community’s livelihood depends on one’s ability to work the fields or sell vegetables even old clothes. The farms adjacent Hatcliffe are densely and informally settled.
Rutendo has to multi-task as a mother, wife and also work the family patch that gives them produce.
She looks like someone in her forties yet she has been to the labour ward only three times.
For Rutendo giving birth is not an easy task, she cannot afford the US$25 charged by the local clinic hence she delivers at home. -
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Mbuya Rosy of Katanga, Norton, has been frail for some years now. She looks two decades older and when she told me that she was 48 years old, I could not believe it. She has had a host of opportunistic infections since her husband’s death in 2005. She knows that she is HIV positive because her husband died of Aids. -
DISCORDANT couples are on the increase, a situation that has left many with unanswered questions. Discordance is when a person is HIV positive and his or her sexual partner remains negative. Most of these couples have been married for a long time and rarely use condoms. Others, not
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You have heard of furniture shopping but have you ever heard of doctor shopping? It is rampant as one keeps changing doctors or health facilities as long as one is not happy with a diagnosis.
My nephew Artwell (not his real name) used to say that one has to sample as many doctors as possible and that way one would be assured of finally meeting the best.
Whether he was right or not that cannot be proved as his doctor shopping had a motive behind it.
Artwell, a father of a beautiful girl aged nine then in 2010, was a soldier. He was based in Mutoko while his wife worked and lived in Harare.
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