‘Disruptive, unfair and cruel’: Jobs lost and treatment stopped as USAid freeze hits HIV care in Zim

Chiedza Makura only learned she had been dismissed from her nursing job when a WhatsApp message came through on the evening of January 28. The 37-year-old single mother of three worked as an HIV nurse at Zim-TTech, a private voluntary organisation established out of the University of Washington’s International Training and Education Center for Health in 2003, to provide HIV and Aids-related services.

“I felt shattered,” Makura told the Guardian, after finding herself out of a job and struggling to feed her family and keep them in school.

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