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Community home-based care for people living with HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe

GDPC
May 8, 2014

The Zimbabwe Red Cross Society (ZRCS) recognized the increasing vulnerability of households to HIV/AIDS as early as 1988, when it set up the Integrated AIDS Project (IAP). This document describes its home-based care (HBC) programme and recent developments resulting from the 2002–2003 drought. It also highlights constraints and areas for further development. Published in 2004.

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Livelihoods and Food Security

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Africa , Zimbabwe

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