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By Crucial Kuwanga
Zimbabwe has achieved its 2020 HIV/AIDS target through the National Strategic Plan for 2021-2025 focusing on investment in health and social protection, President Mnangagwa has said
Speaking during a virtual United Nations General Assembly meeting on HIV and Aids that begun yesterday, President Mnangagwa said the country has finalised its strategy which focuses on investment in areas such as health and social protection among others, whilst protecting the gains achieved so far.
“To this end, Zimbabwe has finalised its own National Strategic Plan for 2021-2025, which focuses on investment in areas such as health and social protection among others, whilst protecting the gains achieved so far.
“I am pleased to highlight that Zimbabwe achieved the 2020 targets of ensuring that 90 percent of people living with HIV know their status, 90 percent of those who know their status are on antiretroviral therapy and 90 percent of those on antiretroviral therapy are virally suppressed,” he said.
The President has further said the HIV/Aids epidemic had negatively impacted global economies, livelihoods of communities and individual households alike.
He added that in the march towards ending HIV/Aids by 2030, bold ambitions and achievable global targets must be implemented with the requisite funding.
President Mnangagwa further said Zimbabwe had recorded a 44 percent decline in new infections between 2010 and 2019 and expressed gratitude to development partners, the Global Fund and other stakeholders who continue to support Zimbabwe’s programmes.
“We call for the re-doubling of efforts in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic and urge partners to continue providing sufficient funding specifically to low and middle-income countries,” he said.
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