ZIMBABWE NETZWERK e.V.

Beating the Virus: Community HIV Care in Zimbabwe

Medecins sans Frontieres writes:" Every month, six neighbors from the same village, all of them HIV-positive, and stable patients on antiretroviral therapy (ART)-the treatment that keeps the virus in check-take turns picking up medicine for the others. This is the essence of so-called Community ART Groups (CAG), a simple, inexpensive initiative benefiting both members of the group and health facilities, started by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in 2013 in Zimbabwe's Tsholotsho district. ...".