Under Robert Mugabe’s administration, the National AIDS Council says they are going to accommodate gays and sex workers in the country’s HIV programming to curb the further spreading of the pandemic.
This was announced by NAC Chief executive Dr Tapuwa Magure to gays who are attending the 2015 International Conference on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) in Africa (ICASA) in Harare.
Magure said “We are not going to discriminate anyone in HIV programming”.
“Although we have managed to reduce HIV prevalence in general from 29% in 2007 to the current 14% prevalence in key populations’ remains higher and this calls for action from government,”   Magure told Gays, sex workers and Women who have Sex with Women.
Magure said they have scaled up the number of people living with HIV on treatment to slightly above 900 000.
Zimbabwe has 1.4 million people who are living with HIV and still struggles to place all of them on treatment.
The country depends on donor funding for AIDS treatment on top of a 3% AIDS levy it deducts from formal workers.
Government is planning to levy the informal sector as a way of augmenting the dwindling AIDS funding.