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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Farai Matiashe

‘They give me hope’: Beating HIV stigma with community support in Zimbabwe

About 1.3 million people are living with HIV in Zimbabwe today [Farai Matiashe/Al Jazeera]

Mutare, Zimbabwe – When Wonder Mwatamawenyu tested positive for HIV as a young man more than two decades ago, he thought he had signed his death warrant.

His society told him that HIV and AIDS, which were spreading rapidly in Zimbabwe in the 1980s and 1990s, had no treatment.

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