HIV/AIDS News South Africa

Zimbabwe: Cholera's double jeopardy for people with HIV

Moses Mwedzi, who lives in Budiriro, a high-density suburb of the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, has just recovered from a serious bout of cholera.

He is also living with HIV and recently started taking antiretroviral drugs (ARVs). One morning he woke up with excruciating stomach cramps; a few hours later he was vomiting and having diarrhoea.

Mwedzi's wife, Doreni, quickly organised a wheelbarrow and ferried him to the Budiriro Polyclinic, one of the Cholera Treatment Centres set up by the government and being run with the assistance of the World Health Organisation (WHO).

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