Experts Urge Stronger Prevention Advocacy to Sustain Zimbabwe’s HIV Gains Amid Shrinking Funding
By Patricia Mashiri Zimbabwe must intensify prevention advocacy and strengthen community-led HIV prevention efforts to safeguard decades of progress against HIV as shrinking donor funding threatens the country’s response, health experts have said. The call was made during the inception meeting of the Community Monitoring and Engagement for Transformation (COMET) Community-Led Monitoring (CLM) Pivot Pilot
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Zimbabwean Youth Demand Greater Role in Policy-Making and National Development
By Alice Mudzingwa HARARE – Young people from across Zimbabwe have called for greater participation in governance and policy-making, urging government, development partners and civil society organisations to create more opportunities for youth leadership and meaningful involvement in national development. The calls were made during a Youth Indaba, where delegates discussed key issues affecting young
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Zimbabwe Reaffirms Commitment to Children Living With HIV at AIDS 2026 Despite Global Funding Uncertainty
By Michael Gwarisa RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – Zimbabwe has reaffirmed its commitment to ending AIDS among children, with the Minister of Health and Child Care, Dr Douglas Mombeshora, telling delegates at the 13th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science (AIDS 2026) that the country remains focused on closing the treatment gap affecting children
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Harare Hosts National Youth Indaba to Elevate Youth Voice
By Alice Mudzingwa ​HARARE – Young leaders from across Zimbabwe, government officials, development partners, and civil society representatives have gathered in Harare for a two-day National Youth Indaba aimed at strengthening youth participation in policymaking and advancing youth-led solutions to Zimbabwe’s development challenges. ​The Indaba is being convened under the Youth Collective Action for Social
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Zimbabwe Must Treat Health as an Economic Investment, Not a Cost- Minister Mombeshora
By Michael Gwarisa RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – Zimbabwe’s Minister of Health and Child Care, Dr Douglas Mombeshora, has called on governments to stop viewing health as a social expense and instead recognise it as a strategic investment that drives economic growth, productivity and national development. Speaking during a high-level discussion on sustainable health financing
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Tendayi Westerhof Wins Global HIV Award for Championing Women Living with HIV
By Michael Gwarisa RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – Zimbabwean HIV advocate, Tendayi Westerhof has been honoured with the prestigious Ruth Cardoso Movement Building Award, an international recognition celebrating her decades-long advocacy for the rights, dignity and leadership of women living with HIV. Receiving the award at the 26th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2026) in Rio
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Zimbabwe Advances Community Pharmacy Model to Expand Access to PrEP, Including Lenacapavir
By Michael Gwarisa RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – Zimbabwe is testing an innovative public-private partnership that could transform HIV prevention by integrating community pharmacies into the delivery of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), including long-acting lenacapavir, as the country seeks to make HIV prevention services more accessible and convenient for communities. Presenting the initiative at the 26th
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Science Has Put the End of AIDS Within Reach, But Politics Could Still Derail It-UNAIDS
By Michael Gwarisa in RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil UNAIDS says the world now has the tools to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030, but warned on Monday that funding cuts and political decisions are threatening to reverse decades of progress despite major scientific breakthroughs. Launching the 2026 Global AIDS Update ahead of
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Young Zimbabweans Still Want Families, but Poverty and Limited Reproductive Choices Are Delaying Parenthood
By Kuda Pembere Zimbabwe’s young people still aspire to build families and secure better futures, but many are being held back by economic hardship, housing insecurity and limited access to reproductive healthcare, a new global survey has found. The findings were unveiled on Friday as the Government of Zimbabwe and the United Nations Population Fund
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Zimbabwe Faces Funding Cliff as U.S. Ends Support for HIV, TB and Malaria Programmes
By Kuda Pembere Zimbabwe must urgently strengthen domestic resource mobilisation if it is to sustain gains made in the fight against HIV, tuberculosis (TB), malaria, and in maternal and child health, as the United States Government prepares to end funding for the programmes in September. The call came during a Health Sector Working Group meeting
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