The City of Harare has released the HIV statistics for June 2024, comprehensive HIV testing was conducted among girls and women aged 15 years and older.
In a public notice issued this Thursday, 15 August, the local authority said that a total of 11,456 individuals participated in the testing process and the overall positivity rate for HIV during this period was found to be 4.1%.
Breaking down the statistics by age group, the City of Harare said that among those aged 15 to 24 years, 180 out of 5,409 tested positive, resulting in a positivity rate of 3.3%.
For the age group of 25 to 49 years, 252 out of 5,647 individuals tested positive, leading to a positivity rate of 4.5%.
In the oldest group, those aged 50 years and above, 37 out of 400 tested positive, which corresponds to a positivity rate of 9.25%.
Meanwhile, nationally, the HIV prevalence for the 15-49 years age group is 10.49% and the HIV prevalence for Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second-largest city is 11.75%.
Prevalence refers to the proportion of old and new HIV infections per population.
Positivity is the proportion of HIV-positive infections of the total number of people tested.
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