Zimbabwe National Network of PLHIV

Context

Zimbabwe National Network of PLHIV is a national network of people living with HIV within our advocacy work do through community based advocacy committee .These are community based and we have been training them to tackle issues concerning their lives through networking within support groups to gather supporting data or the evidence and then engage in dialogues with the respective authorities. Most of the advocacy issues have been to do with access to essential drugs such as ARVs, and access to services particularily opharned and vulnerable children

Website:
www.znnp.org.zw

Area of Work:
Africa

Contact Person:
Tendai F Mhaka

Approaches to implementing community monitoring/ accountability

By gathering evidence and constructive engagement there after. When this fails we also make use of media to expose the issues

Lessons and Results

The biggest lesson that we have learnt over the years is that in an environment such as Zimbabwe after gathering the evidence it's always crucial to seek audience first before engaging with media. The existence of the National AIDS Trust fund came into existence after PLHIV lobbied government in the late nineties for such a tax to assist with the HIV problem . We also managed to expose level of corruption in health institutions through some research work we did with Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Right in 2010.