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 Zim to mark World TB Day commemorations
Monica Cheru-Mupambawashe
The Herald
25 January 2012

Harare - This year World TB Day commemorations are set to be held in Bulawayo on March 24, advocacy, communication and social mobilization /community TB care officer in the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare AIDS and TB Unit Mr Andrew Nyambo has announced. The slogan for the year is "Stop TB in My Lifetime" while the theme is "Call for a World Free of TB". Many activities, including marches, are slotted for the day in which the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare and other organisations will be hoping to raise awareness.

Herald Opinion and Analysis

Although there are talks of breakthroughs in the research into possible HIV treatment, the bleak truth is that right now there is no cure for HIV. ARVs enhance the quality and length of life for the infected but with international donor funding drying up, the country cannot keep adding to the numbers of people who need treatment. The current situation where we have high infection rates is just untenable. With the infected needing ever improving services and support systems simply cannot afford to have the bill continue to increase. The continued high incidence rate of HIV infection within the marriage institution is a reflection of the prevailing attitude that getting married is a method of preventing infection. Nothing could be further from the truth. Last year statistics revealed that married women had the highest rate of HIV infection compared to any other demographic grouping. Results of a medical study linking high infection rates to the use of hormone-based contraceptives may just be the explanation for that phenomenon.

Herald Health Reporter
THE Grain Marketing Board has re-committed itself in responding to HIV and Aids and has pledged to scale up its current workplace interventions as part of its contribution to an Aids-free generation. Addressing guests - mostly GMB employees - at the organisation's belated World Aids Day commemorations held in Harare last week, GMB general manager Mr Albert Mandizha urged all his staff to have individual roles in curbing prevalence of HIV.
"I am appealing to all members of staff to feel free to get tested as this is the gateway into positive living. We can only access treatment when we know our status and equally stay negative if one knows his status as well," said Mr Mandizha.

Friday, 23 December 2011 17:12 
Takunda B Gomo
ZRP High School 2011 Form 2
It does not choose colour or creed, sex or age and neither does it have a choice of religion or status.

AIDS can be acquired by anyone. Infecting some of us and affecting most. Leaving inerasable marks in the lives of many, sending others six feet under the ground. United we stand, divided we fall, so lets stand together and fight to combat HIV and AIDS. Together we can make a difference into an HIV free era.
It has been said that HIV is spread through various ways but I do believe in what the internet says.

The internet has enlightened millions of people about the actual cause of AIDS.
It is a condition caused by the HIV virus and transmitted in body fluids, which will break down the sufferers natural defences against infection hence the CD4 count will be lowered. The virus enters the body as a result of sexual activities among other ways and will eventually develop into AIDS.
The virus mainly infects cells and these cells are those that carry a molecule called CD4 on their surface. The CD4 is found on immune cells, most particularly on T-helper cells, which co-ordinate the immune system and on macrophages, cells which roam the body engulfing bacteria and other germs.