Medecins du monde in Zimbabwe

| Main achievements

• Blood free of charge for pregnant women

w Increasing the availability and uptake of friendly family planning and HIV/STI services, including PPTCT services • Support to the implementation of Opportunistic Infection Clinics, PPTCT, Voluntary Counseling and Testing activities.

• Rehabilitation of clinics and nurses staff quarters

• Supply of Essential drugs and equipment • Re-establishment of Expanded Program on Immunization activities aiming at prevention of child killer preventable diseases w To increase the effectiveness of the epidemic disease surveillance including the early warning system and strengthen the Rapid Response capacity

• Capacity building of health staffs through various trainings to manage patients with HIV and AIDS. • Supply of material resources to support the health facilities.

• Technical, human, material resource provided for case management in Cholera Treatment Center and health centres.

w Supporting community programmes, community ownership and social mobilization for HIV prevention, treatment, care and support • Implementation of a home based care programme to assist HIV+ clients on Anti Retroviral Therapy (ART). Clients organised into support groups for information sharing on HIVAIDS issues like ART treatment, positive living, disclosure and other critical topics. ACF (Action Contre la Faim) worked as partner to cover the nutritional gap through establishment of nutrition gardens benefiting to People Living with AIDS.

• Sensitisations to the communities in the affected wards. • Intra and interdistrict meetings revitalized for coordination, sharing of information and best practise.

| main results w 7640 clients on ART including 453 children benefiting from ART

• Strengthening family structures and social safety nets for vulnerable orphans including HIV+OVC: training of Grandmothers Of Kindness responsible for providing support to the caregivers of OVC.

w 92 642 people HIV tested w Voluntary Councelling and Testing and PMTCT services available in the 3 hospitals and 48 clinics of the district

• Fostering behavior change through increased knowledge on risks of unprotected sex, Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV Counseling and Testing, by peer education for Commercial Sex Workers and School peer educators.

w 321 Health staff members were trained in various health programs

w Increasing the availability and uptake of quality focused mother and child health care services • Capacity building of the government employees as well as community based health workers

w Nutrition gardens implemented with ACF benefiting to more than 1.000 People living with HIV/AIDS

w In 2011, Médecins du Monde supported the Ministry of Health to manage 725 cases of cholera

w 46 Grand Mothers of Kindness trained to support orphans and vulnerable children

• Logistic support provided for emergency obstetric transfers

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Medecins du monde in Zimbabwe

Published on Jul 28, 2015

Médecins du Monde

In Zimbabwe, political and economic crises, cyclones, floods, droughts, epidemics, the departure of qualified personnel («brain drain») and hyperinflation have all had a considerable and negative impact on the provision of basic social services in the country’s health, education, water and sanitation and social welfare sectors. On 2009, following the full-blown political and economic crisis, the Zimbabwean health system practically collapsed. Many health workers had left the country, the availability of medicines was greatly reduced while the HIV pandemic grew to affect 23% of the population and the country was hit by a food crisis and a cholera epidemic. Médecins du Monde directed its activities towards supporting the existing health system in Chipinge district in the south-east of the country.