HIV Transmissions Seen Increasing Among Syringe-Using Drug Users
The way HIV is transmitted is changing in Seychelles from a sexually transmitted virus to one passed on among drug users, an official at the Ministry of Health said. “Before, we considered HIV to be transmitted mainly between men and women. For the past five years, we have found that this is no longer the […]
UN agency sets up health resource centre at Midlands State University
A UNITED Nations agency has set up a state-of -the-art model health resource centre at the Midlands State University in Gweru to help mitigate the growing number of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among students. The health facility, which boasts of pool tables, computers, HIV and Aids literature, a boardroom and counselling room, is the brainchild […]
Young Sex Workers in Zimbabwe Invade Victoria Falls
A girl who looked hardly 15 stood out among a group of scantily dressed women at a hub for haulage trucks in Victoria Falls. Her young face was heavily powdered and her eyebrows were dark, but the plastic face could not hide her age. Shylet Moyo* has scars of a hardened fighter and has grown […]
Over 100 Million Condoms Distributed in 2016 – Is Zimbabwe The Hub of Safe Sex?
OVER 100 million condoms were distributed in 2016 up from 80 million in 2014 during the same period, the ministry of health has said. Information from the ministry says 109. 5 were used last year. According to the ministry, 105 million male and 4.5 million female condoms were distributed, with the female condom uptake remaining […]
