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  • Title: To tell or not is the question in Zimbabwe.
    Journal: AIDS Wkly Plus; 1996 Apr 29; ():16-7. PubMed ID: 12320173.
    Abstract:
    There have been more than 150,000 recorded cases of AIDS in Zimbabwe since 1984 out of a population of 11 million, with approximately 300 people dying of the disease each week. Official figures indicate that 10% of the population is infected with HIV. Approximately 27% of the health budget is consumed by AIDS care, while economic analysts predict that about 10% of the country's work force in the formal sector will be unemployable by 1997. That stated, Zimbabwe is a socially conservative country in which being infected with HIV and having AIDS are highly stigmatized. Instead of accurately reporting that individuals die as a result of HIV infection and subsequent AIDS, obituaries simply state that they have succumbed following a long, unspecified illness. This tendency needs to come to an end. In the interest of destigmatizing HIV infection and AIDS, people in Zimbabwe need to be more open about their HIV serostatus. At the same time, however, individual and familial privacy must be protected.
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