Save the Children http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/Over 10 million people in Southern Africa are at risk from a severe food crisis caused by a combination of drought, poverty and HIV/AIDS. The crisis is affecting approximately 4.8 million people in Malawi, 3.8 million in Zimbabwe, 0.8 million in Mozambique, and 1 million in Zambia
Jairos Jiri Association for Rehabilitation of the Disabled and Blind401 Southampton House,
Main Street/9th Avenue,PO Box 1529, Bulawayo, , Zimbabwe.
Tel: +263 9 74331 Fax: +263 9 74333
Email:
jja_cbr@telconet.co.zwContact: Mr. Ruvhere
The association was set up to assist, treat and rehabilitate persons with physical, visual or hearing impairments; to establish clinics, schools, centres, and other institutions for the education and welfare of the handicapped; to liaise with the government of Zimbabwe, local and international agencies for the benefit of the handicapped.
Zimbabwe National Association for Mental Health (ZIMNAMH)Physical address TBA Postal address P.O. Box A196, Avondale, Harare, Zimbabwe Telephone +263-(0)4-731272,792946,728538
Fax +263-(0)4-792946
Email address
zimnamh@africaonline.co.zwContact: Mrs. E. Mutare
Objectives
• To represent the interests of people who suffer from mental health problems and facilitate their participation in issues which directly affect them;
• To work towards better care, treatment and rehabilitation of people who suffer from mental health problems and
• To promote mental health for all throughout Zimbabwe.
National Association of Societies for the Care of the Handicapped (NASCOH)Physical address 11 Peebles Rd, Eastlea, Harare, Zimbabwe
Postal address P.O. Box UA504, Union Ave, Harare, Zimbabwe
Telephone +263-(0)4-746967, (0)11- 862072, (0)91-385417
Fax +263-(0)4-776683 -
to be transferred Email address
nascoh@zol.co.zwWeb address
http://www.nascoh.org.zw/Contact: Mr. Mukuta – Director
The mission is to lobby and advocate with and for people with disabilities to uphold their rights in line with international conventions, e.g. the UN Standard Rules in order to improve the lives and well being of people with disabilities in Zimbabwe. This is done through facilitation of co-ordination and co-operation between CBOs, NGOs, government departments and other stakeholders.
St. Giles Medical Rehabilitation CentreP.O.Box A 224, Avondale, Harare
Tel: 04-704691/3/5, 04-726777
Fax: 04-704691/3
Email:
giles@technopark.co.zwContact: Mr. P Rukodzi
St Giles is a medical rehabilitation centre dedicated to the rehabilitation of adults and children with all types of physical disabilities. It aims to be the leading provider of rehabilitation services in Zimbabwe
.Zimbabwe Widows and Orphans Trust,
Mrs. Susan Zwinoira,
114 Eastern Road,Greendale,Harare,Zimbabwe.
Telephone:
(263) 4 - 494416
Email:
info@zwot.comhttp://www.zwot.com/
The Zimbabwe Widows Association, formed in 1996, later to become the Zimbabwe Widows and Orphans Trust (ZWOT), was established to assist grief and poverty- stricken widows and orphans. ZWOT has in excess of 25,000 members and new members continue to join daily. These members live in all provinces of Zimbabwe.
At present, there are over 1 million widows and 4 million orphans in Zimbabwe. Many of these women and children owe their plight to the HIV/AIDS epidemic sweeping sub-Saharan Africa.
Mrs Susan Zwinoira President & Founder
ZWOT is a non-denominational, non-political, non-racial, voluntary organisation. It is a registered Trust, welfare no. MA 755/99, with its headquarters located in Harare. An executive committee, which is comprised of a President, five Trustees, and several volunteers, administers the organisation. Each member of the executive committee is a widow.
United Nations
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Zimbabwe is an impartial and trusted development partner. The organisation strives to contribute within the scope of its overall mandate and in full use of its comparative advantages to national priorities and to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
HARARE
Field Office
Mail address
UNICEFP.O. Box 1250Harare, Zimbabwe
Visitors' address
UNICEF6 Fairbridge AvenueBelgraviaHarare, Zimbabwe
Telephone
Country code
263
City code
4
703.941703.942721.692731.840730.093730.094
Facsimile
731.849727.661727.662
Email
harare@unicef.orgWorld Vision International
World Vision International is a Christian relief and development organisation working for the well being of all people, especially children. Through emergency relief, education, health care, economic development and promotion of justice, World Vision helps communities help themselves.
Established in 1950 to care for orphans in Asia, World Vision has grown to embrace the larger issues of community development and advocacy for the poor in its mission to help children and their families build sustainable futures.
Working on six continents, World Vision is one of the largest Christian relief and development organisations in the world.
World Vision focuses on children because they are the best indicator of a community's social health. When children are fed, sheltered, schooled, protected, valued, and loved a community thrives.
AIDS in Zimbabwe
1,700,000: Estimated number of people living with HIV/AIDS by the end of 2005
160,000: Estimated number of children (ages 0-15) living with HIV/AIDS by the end of 2005
180,000: Estimated number of deaths due to AIDS during 2005
1,100,000: Estimated number of children who have lost one or both parents to AIDS and who were alive and under the age of 17 end of 2005.
Hello All,
Please take the time to read!
Just would like to share a bit of what I learnt from a television program I watched recently. It was about HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) and AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency syndrome) 7 hr program split into 2.
Where did it come from?
The earliest known case of HIV-1 in a human was from a blood sample collected in 1959 from a man in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. (How he became infected is not known.) Genetic analysis of this blood sample suggested that HIV-1 may have stemmed from a single virus in the late 1940s or early 1950s.
It is now generally accepted that HIV is a descendant of a Simian Immunodeficiency Virus because certain strains of SIVs bear a very close resemblance to HIV-1 and HIV-2, the two
types of HIV.
HIV-2 for example corresponds to SIVsm, a strain of the Simian Immunodeficiency Virus found in the sooty mangabey (also known as the green monkey), which is indigenous to western Africa.
How did it Spread?
Basically, everyone is very clueless to how it spread but there are theories that many people came up with:-
1. Being that an African Hunter in Congo could have become infected whilst killing a primate for a meal and therefore his blood being contaminated by SIV then developing into HIV, what I would like to know is how come the chimpanzees do not die like the humans.
2. Some believe that we evolved from monkeys into humans so therefore carry it our bodies but! Takes something to trigger it off.
3. Some believe that the CIA developed a ‘Cancer like Virus’ to wipe out Africans and homosexual men.
4. Some believe that back in the colonial days, if a hunter was infected, people didn’t know back then so the sharing of needles to immunize slaves from certain diseases, but meanwhile that sharing was infecting many slaves.
5. Some feel it’s a curse from God because of immoral sexual practices because it was first found in a homo-sexual man in the early 1980’s in America
It is likely that we will never know exactly how or when the AIDS actually originated. Scientists investigating the possibilities often become very attached to their individual 'pet' theories and insist that theirs is the only true answer, but the spread of AIDS could quite conceivably have been induced by a combination of many different events. Whether through injections, travel, wars, colonial practices or genetic engineering, the realities of the 20th Century have undoubtedly had a major role to play. So perhaps what we should be focusing on now is not how the AIDS epidemic originated, but how we can treat those affected by it, continue to prevent the spread of HIV and change our world to ensure a similar pandemic is never allowed to occur again.
How is the Virus affecting us in today’s lives?
Firstly, HIV transmission is on the increase daily. Because
1. We are in denial (not getting tested, mother to baby transmission)
2. We fail to be more educated on the lethal death sentence
3. We are not morally focused (many sexual partners, prostitutes, orgis in call houses, unprotected sex)
4. Drugs (sharing of needles for heroine and cocaine, razor blades)
What is best for us to suggest is:-
Get Tested even if you are a virgin or married etc……..Because HIV doesn’t discriminate any human, it infects anyone regardless of Age, Wealth, Colour, Religion etc.
HIV is a massive pandemic causing destruction.
One phrase someone said on the program was that even though we had 2 million people on anti retrovirals, another 15 million got infected in that short space of time that they managed to help 2 million. So that just shows the impact of this deadly virus.
So please everyone get tested as well as your partners and learn to talk open about HIV
Practice safe use of condoms if sexually active, remember male condoms
Check expiry date
Open the packet without tearing condom
Blow the condom to put air and when you slide it on pinch the top and leave a little gap so that the friction does not cause it to tear
Try to be faithful, if not please use protection
They did not say about the female condom, so sorry don’t have much info on that as yet.
Do not sell yourself for money either.
Back to transmission
Since people did not know much about HIV, haemophilacs needed blood transfusions therefore back on the days people donated blood for money and so many children got infected too causing havoc in the states and discrimination and ill treatment of people with the Virus as due to lack of knowledge. So this added to the spread.
Sometimes it’s not always someone fault, like one lady in SA was gang raped and she didn’t know she had HIV till when her baby was born and was ill all the time. Sometimes it’s not fair!! But this one woman from Uganda was lucky, her husband had HIV but bcoz they used condoms instead of the pill she didn’t get infected, because he was unfaithful to her.
But as the next generation of people we should try to reduce HIV together by telling others and trying to practice safe sex unless u are both faithful and have being tested.
Encourage people to get off hardcore drugs and needles getting help, improve your sexuality with your partner instead of going to look for a prostitute, she might be beautiful as gold but is it worth it
The reason why I shared this with you all is because I care for you all , none of us are perfect as we are humans, but to help in the fight against AIDS we can change the world.
Some people had to take about tablets form 20 to 36 a day jst to control the virus.
We also have to thank the scientists that are working hard to find a cure and for the anti-retrovirals, because they thing is HIV does not stay the same, it mutates therefore causing some drugs not to work, that jst shows the impact of it. So scientists have to always be making up new ones, but for how long??????
You can not catch aids from hugging someone or a handshake. Only if you are in contact with their blood or bodily sexual fluids. There is HIV in Saliva but not enough to infect someone. You can get HIV by kissing if both partners have open sores or cuts in the mouth because that would be via blood contact.
But even if one has HIV do not ever stop loving them!
My greatest fear in the world is to get the disease, and I wonder if the whole world will b contaminated with it in time to come if things do not change.
I hope I have made everyone more aware on the disease and hope it has helped everyone. Please do not feel offended by me posting this, all I was doing was just helping to fight against Aids.
Instead of looking for someone to blame for the disease, we need to help fight it!
Thank you for you time spent reading.
God Bless!
