CommunicationPublished on 8 December 2023

Accept me as I am – Zvandiri

Although the HIV/AIDS situation in Africa has improved in recent years, medication can still be difficult to obtain, and those affected continue to struggle against stigmatisation and social exclusion. This particularly impacts young people. The SDC supports a programme in Zimbabwe in which young people help their peers to cope with the disease and combat stigmatisation.

The SDC supports broad-based and effective awareness-raising projects to combat HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe. — © SDC

The world can defeat AIDS if communities lead the way.

UNAIDS

Before I met CATS I was afraid that my friends see me taking ARV's (antiretroviral medication), they would laugh at me. Through this support group, I actually realised, that people I was hiding from, were also on ARV's and now we are all friends.

Renius, a member of a self-help group