HIV/AIDS|ZIMBABWE CHARITY INC.
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THE Education Minister will be delighted to learn that in my 13 years going through Zimbabwe’s school system, not once did I engage in sexual activities. But that’s where the good news ends. More than anything, it was lack of opportunity and not moral abidance or some other quality that preserved my innocence.
Masvingo Province’s second most senior civil servant said Education Minister David Coltart had closed the debate on the matter “prematurely”. Provincial administrator Felix Chikovo says ministers would rather pretend sex is not happening at schools.
It is rather unfortunate that the arguments presented by Senator Femai are not party policy and do not reflect the true position of the party. The MDC has a sound Health and HIV/AIDS policy which we can share with you.
Zimbabwean women organizations and activists are demanding an apology from lawmaker Morgan Femai of the MDC formation of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai for saying women should make themselves less attractive to help reduce the spread of the deadly HIV/Aids virus.
Truvada – a common anti-retroviral drug in Zimbabwe – has been given the nod for use as an HIV-prevention tool in high-risk negative people. The approval was given by an advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration in the United States this week after the majority of experts voted for licensing of the drug.
An MDC-T senator, Morgan Femai, has sparked outrage after he suggested that women should stop bathing as usual and dress shabily in order to curb the spread of deadly HIV/AIDS infections.
The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria has announced that it will have US$1.6 billion more to invest in life-saving programmes between 2012 and 2014.
We’ve all heard the myths and hypotheses about the origins of the epidemic caused by the HI virus, but a new book, “Tinderbox: How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and How the World Can Finally Overcome It”, sheds more light on where it all began.
Penga udzoke is a shona concept that literally translated says go wild and come back.
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