Like much of the world, Zimbabwe is in lockdown to stem the spread of Covid-19, the Ceshhar team monitors the situation daily and is learning rapidly how to adjust its own ways of working to ensure its objectives can be fulfilled whilst keeping staff and clients safe. CeSHHAR is working hard to ensure its national…
DetailsPeer Educator Supervisor: CeSHHAR Zimbabwe Deadline: 20 March 2020 (4:30pm) Duty Station: Mutare CeSHHAR Zimbabwe is an organization that specializes in sexual health, HIV and AIDS research in Zimbabwe. The organization is implementing a National Sex Work Programme behalf of and in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Child Care and the National AIDS…
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FROM a distance, she is an ordinary vendor selling bottled water in the sweltering heat of Chirundu, but she is also a commercial sex worker. BY XOLISANI NCUBE Prudence (42) is one of many sex workers who operate at Chirundu Border Post and has been in the trade for over 20 years having bedded more…
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HARARE — Results of a study conducted by the Center for Sexual Health and HIV/AIDS Research (CeSHHAR) indicates that the stigmatization and discrimination of commercial sex workers at some hospitals and clinics in Zimbabwe is hampering their access to increased HIV/AIDS treatment and care. Presenting the study findings during a Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Right’s…
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Zimbabwe AIDS Network (ZAN) convened key populations with the objective of amplifying civil society voices around the need for domestic health funding, proposing strategies for effective key populations programming and discussing common approaches to advocate for increased key populations’ access to health services. Tendai Mbengeranwa, the key populations coordinator for National Aids Council (NAC) highlighted…
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More than 3 000 sex workers in Gweru are accessing sexual health services at a Centre for Sexual Health, HIV and Aids Research (CeSHHAR) mobile clinic, a move that has empowered them and reduced sexually-related diseases, a National Aids Council (NAC) official has said. NAC Gweru district co-ordinator, Murari Hwingwiri said the joint programmes with…
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