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  • Fear of infection leads to huge decline in HIV rates in Zimbabwe
    10 February 2011
    Wellcome Trust

    In the ten years leading to 2007, Zimbabwe saw a dramatic fall in the number of people infected with HIV. New research published in ‘PLoS Medicine’ has shed light on how mass social change driven by greater awareness of AIDS-related deaths led to this unexpected downturn, providing important lessons in the fight against the disease for the rest of Africa.

  • Report showing decline in Aids rate 'too simplistic'
    9 February 2011
    The Zimbabwean

    A new study which concluded that Zimbabwe experienced a huge decline in the rate of HIV infection over the last decade, has been criticized by observers as ‘too simplistic’. The study, published on Tuesday in the Public Library of Science Medicine, said the country’s HIV infection rate declined by almost half between 1997and 2007. And the reason given was ‘a change in sexual behavior due to fear of infection’.

  • Fear, social change drive down Zimbabwe HIV rates
    8 February 2011
    Mail & Guardian

    Fear of infection and mass social change have driven a huge decline in HIV rates in Zimbabwe, offering important lessons on how to fight the Aids pandemic in the rest of Africa, scientists said on Tuesday.

  • Minister of Health Dr Henry Madzorera on Question Time
    8 February 2011
    Zim Daily

    The Minister of Health and Child Welfare, Dr Henry Madzorera, speaks to SW Radio Africa journalist Lance Guma and answers questions sent in by the listeners.

  • Journalists warned on dangers of HIV and Aids
    26 October 2010
    Zimbabwe Community Radio

    The Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) president, Dumisani Sibanda has warned journalists to desist from viewing HIV and AIDS as only affecting other people but report on such issues with the view that they were part of the possible victims of the disease.

  • Zimbabwe: US body helps communities fight HIV/AIDS
    27 July 2010
    ReliefWeb

    The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that it was working with local communities in Zimbabwe to combat HIV/AIDS in the southern African country. Speaking from the remote north-western Binga rural district where the CDC was holding workshops for community volunteers providing HIV/AIDS support services, the organisation's deputy director for Zimbabwe, Gretchen Cowman, said the workshops were meant to help villagers cope with the disease.

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