I'm Malachi's Mom. I'm also an Epidemiologist. My research areas are HIV & SRH. I am Zimbabwean. My rants are mostly about that.
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Chido Dziva Chikwari retweeted
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) is converting disused municipal properties into vocational training and innovation hubs to expand opportunities for young people to acquire practical skills and start businesses. #Bulawayo
Chido Dziva Chikwari retweeted
Imagine your child growing up believing big dreams are NORMAL because they watched you pursue yours!!!!๏ฟผ
Chido Dziva Chikwari retweeted
ZIMBABWE has advanced technology-driven healthcare with its first drone delivery of medical supplies from Harare to Marondera, transporting medicines to a health facility and returning with blood samples for testing.
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My son made Patrick and SpongeBob figurines for my desk and this is what is giving me joy today ๐ฅฐโบ๏ธ๐
When I look up from my desk this is what Iโll see ๐
Chido Dziva Chikwari retweeted
Six injections a year instead of daily pills. Could long-acting HIV treatment change care in Africa?
In a new blog, Dr @cresswell_fiona explores findings from the IMPALA trial and the challenges of making injectable HIV treatment accessible to those who need it most.
Read the blog: lshtm.ac.uk/research/units/mโฆ
#HIVResearch #HIVTreatment #EndHIV2030
They come up with these shiny policies to โclean upโ while sitting in offices but they are implemented in real life where things are a lot more complicated. What often gets overlooked are the unintended consequences, which leave already vulnerable people even more vulnerable.
WATCH | Jacob Ngarivhume has shared the heartbreaking story of Jennifer Chasemwa, also known as Mai Tsitsi, a mother of two who survives through vending.
Her brother, Asherby Chasemwa, died in Norton, leaving behind a wife and three children. The following morning, Mai Tsitsi travelled from Mbare to buy goods for her business so she could raise money for his post-mortem and funeral expenses.
However, Harare municipal police reportedly seized her goods during an operation against street vendors at Copacabana. She broke down in tears, explaining that she needed the goods to raise money for her brotherโs funeral.
Jacob Ngarivhumeโs wife witnessed the incident and stepped in to help. Deeply moved by Mai Tsitsiโs situation, she contacted her husband and asked him to intervene through Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume. After the mayor did not answer the call, Ngarivhume contacted the mayorโs personal assistant, who promised to help.
Mai Tsitsi eventually recovered her goods following the intervention.
Thank you Mayor @JMafume ๐๐พ
@gama_stanley @cityofharare2
Chido Dziva Chikwari retweeted
The DHS saying "currently married women" and then "sexually active unmarried women" is an...interesting distinction ๐
Chido Dziva Chikwari retweeted
๐๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฃ๐ต๐ ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฝ๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐๐ป๐ถ๐๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐ญ๐ถ๐บ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐๐ฒ!
THRU-ZIM, in collaboration with the @UniofOxford , is offering a @wellcometrust -funded PhD exploring biological ageing in children living with HIV.
Deadline: 5 November 2026, 17:00 CAT
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I bought facial tissue for Malachi and it says โfor Menโ.
He looked at it and asked me, โMhamha, why are they gendering tissues?โ
When they ask how I have influenced future generations you can have a conversation with my son ๐
๐คญ
Chido Dziva Chikwari retweeted
A 15-year-old does not have a "husband." She is a child, and what this story describes is child marriage, child sexual abuse, and attempted murder.
Calling her a "teenage woman" and him her "husband" normalises a crime. "Demands for sex" from a 15-year-old is not a domestic dispute. It is abuse.
Words matter. When the media uses the language of marriage, it tells readers this is a relationship gone wrong, not a girl who was failed by the adults, community, and systems that should have protected her.
We should also be asking: who allowed this "marriage"? Where were the family, the school, the community, the authorities?
Holding a dead perpetrator responsible isn't enough. Others enabled this.
Praying for her recovery. She deserves protection, justice, trauma support, and the chance to return to being a child.
#EndChildMarriage #ProtectOurGirls
โผ๏ธ15-YEAR-OLD BATTLING FOR LIFE AFTER BEING STABBED BY HUSBAND WHO KILLS HIMSELF
A TEENAGE woman is battling for her life in hospital after she was stabbed in her abdomen by her husband on Sunday for rejecting his demands for sex.
heraldonline.co.zw/man-killsโฆ
RAPE!!!
#dandarostreets In another case of domestic violence, a 15-year-old Mabvuku girl has been hospitalised after being stabbed by her 22-year-old husband for refusing to have sex with him.
The husband fled the scene before drinking rat poison and killing himself.
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Chido Dziva Chikwari retweeted
So I eventually decided to do it and I am glad I did.
Long live to this straight flight
#FlyAirZimbabwe
Update: Meeting started on time at exactly 10.30 ๐๐พ๐ค
Action item: We need to set up another meeting ๐
A win is a win! ๐๐
I had a meeting with someone at 8am. I arrived at 7.45 and she arrived at 7.50.
Great start to the day. Bliss โบ๏ธ
My next meeting is at Ministry at 10.30 ๐
We hold onto hope ๐๐พ
Chido Dziva Chikwari retweeted
Happy to share our findings on community-led HIV self-test kit distribution in rural Zimbabwe, a real-world application of the mantra, "Let communities lead"!
#HIVST #HIVselftest #LetCommunitiesLead
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