Defence chief’s plea to scale up battle against HIV needs support

REVELATIONS by Zimbabwe Defence Forces Commander General Phillip Valerio Sibanda that the State security sector, hit hard by HIV and Aids, is struggling to provide adequate health care to its sick personnel demands that all stakeholders look into it, especially so because efforts to end the pandemic have been scaled up across the world.

The country has done a lot of work in this area and this has seen the HIV prevalence rate fall down from 30% in 1999 to the current 14,7%.

There is therefore need to scale up efforts to ensure that such gains are not lost through ensuring that all those who require anti-retroviral therapy access it so they can continue enjoying a healthy life.

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