ARV TREATMENT SITES Southern Africa HIV and AIDS Information LISTED BY PROVINCE AND AREA Dissemination Service MASVINGO · Bulilima: Plumtree District hospital: · Bikita: Silveira Mission Hospital: Tel: (038)324 Tel. (019) 2291; 2661-3 · Chiredzi: Hippo Valley Estates Clinic: · Gwanda: Gwanda OI Clinic: Tel: (084)22661-3: Tel: (031)2264 - Mangwe: St. Annes Brunapeg: · Chiredzi: Colin Saunders Hosp. Tel: (082) 361/466 AN HIV/AIDS Tel: (033)6387:6255 · Kezi-Matobo: Tshelanyemba Mission Hosp: · Chiredzi: Chiredzi District Hosp.: Tel: (033) Tel: (082) 254 · Gutu: Gutu Mission Hosp: · Maphisa District Hosp: Tel. (082) 244 Tel: (030)2323:2313:2631:3229 · Masvingo: Morgenster Mission Hosp: MIDLANDS Tel: (039)262123 · Chivhu General Hosp: Tel: (056):2644:2351 TREATMENT - Masvingo Provincial Hosp: · Chirumhanzu: Muvonde Hosp: Tel: (032)346 Tel: (039)263358/9; 263360 · Mvuma: St Theresas Mission Hosp: - Masvingo: Mukurira Memorial Private Hospital: Tel: (0308)208/373 Tel. (039) 264919 · Gweru: Gweru Provincial Hospital: ROADMAP FOR · Mwenezi: Matibi Mission Hospital: Tel. (0517) 323 Tel: (054) 221301:221108 · Zaka: Musiso Mission Hosp: · Gweru: Gweru City Hospital: Tel: (054) Tel: (034)2286:2322:2327/8 221301:221108 - Gweru: Mkoba 1 Polyclinic, Tel. MATEBELELAND NORTH - Gweru: Lower Gweru Rural Health Clinic: · Hwange: St Patricks Mission Hosp: Tel: (054) 227023 Tel: (081)34316-7 · Kwekwe: Kwekwe General Hospital: ZIMBABWE · Lupane: St Lukes Mission Hosp: Tel: (055)22333/7:24828/31 Tel: (0898)362:549:349 · Mberengwa: Mnene Mission Hospital: · Tsholotsho: Tsholotsho District Hosp: Tel. (0518) 352/3 Tel: (0878) 397/216/299 A guide for accessing anti- PRIVATE DOCTORS retroviral treatment in MATEBELELAND SOUTH For a list of private doctors who have special Zimbabwe: what it is, where · Beitbridge: Beitbridge District Hosp: training in ARV treatment and counselling, ask Tel.(086) 22496-8 your own doctor or contact SAfAIDS. to go, how much it costs, the treatment stages and more Live a longer, healthier FOR MORE INFORMATION life with ARV medicines Talk to people who already take ARVs: they know a lot. As well as the places listed in this brochure, many other organisations can give you information about HIV counselling, testing and treatment. Ask a local health worker, clinic, hospital, HIV organisation or support group. You can also contact Southern Africa HIV/AIDS Information Dissemination Service (SAfAIDS) SAfAIDS directly (address on the cover) or your local branch of Zimbabwe AIDS Network (ZAN) 17 Beveridge Road, Avondale, Harare or National AIDS Council (NAC). P O Box A509, Avondale, Harare, Zimbabwe Tel: (2634) 336 193/4; 307 898 SAfAIDS thanks the many people who generously provided information to help compile this Roadmap. E-mail: [email protected] Please keep us updated on new developments. Website: www.safaids.org.zw Issue 1 / June 2006 8 1 ANTI-RETROVIRALS (ARVs): AN OVERVIEW ARV TREATMENT SITES LISTED BY PROVINCE AND AREA There IS treatment for HIV and AIDS, and a work well to attack the HIV in your body. brighter healthier future. Read more . · This is why its essential that you only take the exact combination and dosage of ARV drugs prescribed BULAWAYO MASHONALAND CENTRAL WHAT ARE ARVS? for you by a registered doctor. You should never · Mpilo Hosp: Tel: (09)252011/9; 74961/3 · Bindura: Bindura Provincial Hosp: · ARVs (antiretroviral medicines) are medicines stop or change this combination without a doctors · United Bulawayo Hosp: Tel: (071)6555:6666:6267:6291 you can take to fight HIV in your body and live prescription. You also need regular medical tests, Tel: (09)252111:231647:234221 · Centenary: St Alberts Hosp: a longer healthier life. They DONT cure HIV or especially CD4 counts, to make sure that the drugs · Khami Road Clinic, Tel: Tel: (057)2218:2238:23753 AIDS, but they reduce the amount of HIV in are working well for you. · Follow-up clinics: Nkulumane, Pelandaba, · Guruve: Guruve District Hosp: Tel: (058)2594-7 your blood. As a result, your immune system · Its important to learn as much as you can Luveve, Entumbane, Nketa, Northern Suburbs, · Mazowe: Concession Dist. Hosp: gets stronger, your body can fight diseases about ARVs. Its also helpful to join a support Ingutsheni Central Tel: (0756)2569:2596: 2769: 2672 group with other people taking ARVs and to better, and can give you a much longer · Mazowe: Howard Mission Hosp: healthier life when you take them correctly. disclose (tell someone that youre positive) in order to get emotional support. They can HARARE Tel: (0758)2433:2474 · Not everyone who is HIV positive needs ARVs; · Connaught Clinic: Tel: (04)746874, 091 282996 · Mt Darwin: Karanda Mission Hosp: Tel: (076)2463 you can live for years before you need this also help you take your ARVs correctly. · Harare Central Hosp- OI Clinic and Harare Childrens - Mt Darwin District Hosp: Tel:(076):2408-10:2294 treatment. With or without ARVs, its always · Also, once you start taking ARVs, you must important to have only safe sex (so you dont get take them for life every day, in the right way; Hosp: Tel : (04)621100-11; 665561-4 re-infected or infect others), treat any infections so get as much information as you can. · Parirenyatwa Hosp: Tel: (04) 701555-7, 708864-5 MASHONALAND EAST you get, and build up your strength with a healthy Stopping and starting, even missing a few · Wilkins Hosp, OI Clinic: Tel: (04)-740404: · Seke: Chitungwiza General Hosp: diet, preventive medicine and positive living. doses, also causes drug resistance and is very 740321:740464:749849 Tel : (070) 23863:31038:31850:31843 · ARVs are powerful drugs and people take a dangerous. Even if you feel better, or have · J.F. Kapnek Trust (children): · Marondera: Marondera Provin. Hosp: combination of three different ones. They do side-effects from the drugs, you must not stop Tel (04)723375, 722250 Tel: (079) 2486-9:23042-4 this in order to prevent the HIV virus from taking them or change your exact dose · CIMAS Clinic, Milton Park: Tel (04) 797166, · Murewa: Murewa District Hosp: changing its shape. If the virus changes, the drugs without seeing the doctor. 011 629 976/ 7 Tel: (078)22525:22005, · This is why its dangerous to buy unknown cannot fight the new strain of HIV effectively · G. Spagnolli Centre, Marlborough - Nhowe Mission Hosp: Tel: (078)22464 and you develop drug resistance. It may then be ARVs on the street or from fleamarkets, or to share your ARVs or take someone elses. (For mothers only), Tel. (04) 300195 · Mutoko: Mutoko: District Hospl: difficult to find ARV drug combinations that will · The Centre: Tel: (04) 251429, 724494 Tel:(072) 2411-6 See the ROADMAP on the centre pages for more details about the steps for taking ARV medicines. · GALZ Positive (at The Centre): - Mutoko: Luisa Guidotti, All Souls Mission: Tel:(04)741736, 740614 Tel: (072)2729:2592 WHERE CAN I GET ARVS AND advising on ARV treatment, and remember to ask · Hatcliff Extension: Dominican Missionary · Mudzi: Kotwa District Hospital HOW MUCH DO THEY COST? about getting adherence counselling. Sisters, Tel: (04) 701727 Tel: 011 756 183; (072) 2614-7 People get ARVs in a variety of ways: from government The ARV medicines vary a lot in price, but you or mission hospitals and Opportunistic Infections (OI) must ONLY take the ones your doctor prescribes. MANICALAND MASHONALAND WEST clinics; private doctors or clinics often through In September 2006, a months supply of basic (first- · Buhera: Murambinda Mission Hosp: Tel: (021)2192 · Chegutu: Chegutu District Hosp. line) ARVs cost at least Z$_______, and prices keep medical aid; NGOs and community organisations; · Chimanimani: Mutambara Mission Hosp: Tel: (053):2226:2481:2447 from their workplaces (including the armed forces rising with inflation. Most people take first-line and police); or through research programmes. See drugs produced in Zimbabwe or India. You also Tel: (026)2280 · Hurungwe: Karoi District Hosp: the list of treatment places on pages 6 to 8. Regular need blood and other tests to see if you qualify for · Chipinge: Mt Selinda Hosp Tel: (027)3228/9 Tel :(064) 6315: 6671/3 tests and check-ups are also essential; you must add ARVs. These cost around $_______ for a CD4 test · Makoni: Rusape District Hosp: Tel: (025)3377- · Hurungwe: Chidamoyo Mission Hosp: these to the cost of treatment if they arent free. only; $_______-_______ for the blood tests 8/ 2363:2369 Tel: (064) 6519:7048:7200:6519 Remember: You MUST get your ARV prescription and including CD4. Tests are available at medical/clinical · Mutare: Mutare Provincial Hosp. · Kadoma: Kadoma General Hosp: tests through a registered doctor. laboratories throughout the country, through CIMAS Tel: (020)64321/64204 Tel (068) 22066-9: 22071-2 clinics, and at many govt and mission hospitals. · Mutare: Mutare City Hosp. Tel: (020)64321/64204 · Kadoma:St Michaels Mission Hosp: PRIVATE DOCTORS AND CLINICS CIMAS clinics in Harare (Rowland Square, · Mutare: Sakubva Clinic: Tel:(020)61709-followup Tel: (068) 32064 If you can afford it, you can get ARVs through private Milton Park) and Mutare are open to everyone. - CIMAS Health Care Clinic: Tel: (020) 60282 · Chinhoyi: Chinhoyi Provincial Hosp. doctors and clinics. You pay the normal fees for CIMAS members on the add-on scheme dont pay - Mutasa: Hauna District Hosp. Tel (028) 2502/3/5/9 Tel: (067)22305:22546/ 22547 consultations and medical aid schemes are an for any treatment; people on Vitality and Premier · Mutasa: Bonda Mission Hosp: · Zvimba: Father OHea Hosp: pay a lower fee. CIMAS is also planning to open