Stigma and discrimination: coping behaviours of people living with HIV and AIDS in an urban community of Mabvuku and Tafara, Harare, Zimbabwe.

Objectives: To assess how people living with HIV and AIDS reacted to the knowledge of the infection and how they are coping with stigma and discrimination.

Settings: The study was conducted in the two high density urban suburbs of Mabvuku and Tafara in Harare, Zimbabwe.

Design: The study was a descriptive cross sectional survey.

Perceptions and barriers to cervical cancer screening in a rural district of Mutoko, Mashonaland East Province, Zimbabwe.

In the World Health Organization's (WHO) report on the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), member states of the African region committed themselves to implement the new concept of reproductive health that is centred on human needs and development throughout the life cycle. The ICPD's programme of action gave a further impetus to reproductive health by recognising reproductive and sexual rights as important factors in development. The major thrust areas which included cervical cancer screening, were also adopted by the World Health Assembly in its resolution WHA 48.

Implementation of the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV programme in Zimbabwe: achievements and challenges.

Recent scientific developments have led to feasible and effective interventions to reduce the risk of mother to child transmission of HIV. Even in resource poor countries, PMTCT programmes are being articulated as a priority in the national strategic frameworks. Thus PMTCT programmes are moving from being pilot projects to national programmes comprehensively integrated into other reproductive health programmes or HIV and AIDS prevention, care and support programmes.

Production, distribution and problems experienced with health education materials in two districts of Mashonaland East Province, Zimbabwe.

Objective: To identify the production, distribution and problems experienced with health education (HE) materials in two districts of Mashonaland East (Mash East) province of Zimbabwe.

Design: A descriptive survey conducted in the rural districts of Mutoko and Murewa within the Province.

Methods: The researcher interviewed four doctors, 30 nurses and 10 allied health workers who had been conveniently sampled.

Health workers' participation in voluntary counselling and testing in three districts of Mashonaland East Province, Zimbabwe.

Objectives: To determine the proportion of health workers who had undergone VCT for HIV in three districts of Mashonaland East Province and to further explore reasons for non-participation in those who had not been tested.

Settings: The study was conducted in the rural Districts of Murewa, Mutoko and Mudzi in Mashonaland East province.

Design: The study was a descriptive cross sectional survey.

Cancer of the cervix: knowledge, beliefs and screening behaviours of health workers in Mudzi District in Mashonaland East Province, Zimbabwe.

Objective: To assess the knowledge, beliefs and screening behaviours on cervical cancer among health workers in Mudzi District.

Design: Cross sectional survey.

Settings: Mudzi District Hospital and all the 20 rural health centres in Mudzi District of Mashonaland East.