Zimbabwe Parliamentarians Tested for HIV
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Nine members of Zimbabwe's parliament were tested for HIV at a
Population Services International (PSI) New Start voluntary
counseling and testing (VCT) center in a bold step to encourage
people to learn their HIV status through counseling and testing
and to reduce the stigma attached to HIV/AIDS. This impressive
event is believed to be the largest single group of public fig-
ures to be tested in the world.
PSI/Zimbabwe's New Start centers have spread throughout Zimbabwe
with support from the U.S. Agency for International Development
(USAID) and British Department for International Development
(DFID) to become the second largest VCT network on the conti-
nent.
For more information, visit http://www.psi.org/news/0604d.html
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Karrie Carnes
Population Services International (PSI)
mailto:KCARNES@psi.org