‘Demolitions will destabilise HIV programmes’

HIV and Aids lobby groups have appealed to government to cease its planned demolition of illegal urban settlements saying the move would displace a lot of people living with HIV and Aids who require and are on follow-up treatment programmes.

Local Government minister Ignatius Chombo has threatened to demolish illegal structures that have sprouted in most urban centres lately.
Speaking to NewsDay in separate interviews yesterday, the groups said the proposed demolitions would affect people that were on free Anti-Retroviral therapy in a very bad way.

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