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(RE) Zimbabwe AIDS group folds through lack of cash

Reuters NewMedia, Inc. - 29 Nov 1995

HARARE, Zimbabwe (Reuter) - Zimbabwe's main non-governmental group promoting the anti-AIDS campaign has folded through lack of cash, while 300 to 400 people are dying each week from the disease, executive director Elizabeth Matenga said Wednesday.

Matenga told reporters the AIDS Counselling Trust (ACT) would cease operating on Dec. 1 because it had run out of cash to implement its campaigns against the spread of the HIV virus which causes AIDS.

"It is regrettable that ACT is being forced to stop its services to the public because of lack of support," she said.

Matenga noted: "This comes at a time when the AIDS (epidemic) is at its peak in Zimbabwe, with 300 to 400 people dying of the incurable disease every week."

Health ministry officials say more than 100,000 Zimbabweans have died of AIDS or related diseases since the first case was reported 10 years ago.

Set up in 1989, ACT was involved in counseling HIV-infected people on how to live positively with the virus and also carried out AIDS-prevention campaigns.

The organization had 15 permanent employees and more than 200 volunteer workers throughout Zimbabwe.
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