HIV incidence and poverty in Manicaland, Zimbabwe: is HIV becoming a disease of the poor?

Background: In Zimbabwe, socioeconomic development has a complicated and changeable relationship with HIV infection. Longitudinal data are needed to disentangle the cyclical effects of poverty and HIV as well as to separate historical patterns from contemporary trends of infection.

Methods: We analysed a large population-based cohort in eastern Zimbabwe.

Nursing and community rates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection among students in Harare, Zimbabwe.

Background: African hospitals have experienced major increases in admissions for tuberculosis, but they are ill-equipped to prevent institutional transmission. We compared institutional rates and community rates of tuberculin skin test (TST) conversion in Harare, Zimbabwe.

Methods: We conducted a cohort study of TST conversion 6, 12, and 18 months into training among 159 nursing and 195 polytechnic school students in Harare.

Uptake of workplace HIV counselling and testing: a cluster-randomised trial in Zimbabwe.

Background: HIV counselling and testing is a key component of both HIV care and HIV prevention, but uptake is currently low. We investigated the impact of rapid HIV testing at the workplace on uptake of voluntary counselling and testing (VCT).

Methods And Findings: The study was a cluster-randomised trial of two VCT strategies, with business occupational health clinics as the unit of randomisation.

Voluntary counseling and testing by nurse counselors: what is the role of routine repeated testing after a negative result?

Three hundred eighty-eight human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-negative clients in Zimbabwe were retested at 3 months using 2 parallel rapid tests. One operator error (risk, 0.26%; 95% confidence interval, 0.

Association of house spraying with suppressed levels of drug resistance in Zimbabwe.

Background: Public health strategies are needed to curb antimalarial drug resistance. Theoretical argument points to an association between malaria transmission and drug resistance although field evidence remains limited. Field observations, made in Zimbabwe, on the relationship between transmission and multigenic drug resistance, typified by chloroquine, are reported here.