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United Press International - December 26, 2008
The epidemic has claimed more than 1,500 lives in the sub-Saharan African country, a U.N. statement said Friday.
The United Nations group is working with the Zimbabwe Ministry of Health and Child Welfare to deliver emergency reproductive health kits, medicine and surgical supplies to the maternity care units of Zimbabwe's central hospitals, many of which are on the verge of collapse.
"The total consignment can meet the needs of a population of about 900,000 for at least three months," the U.N. group said in the statement.
The Zimbabwean government has declared the cholera outbreak a national emergency.
The HIV/AIDS pandemics are compounding the problem for local officials, the statement said, noting that 1 million Zimbabweans, an estimated 15.6 per cent of the population, are living with the HIV virus.
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