A divorced Harare woman last year celebrated when she met a man she thought would be her lifetime partner. REPORT BY JENNIFER DUBE Sheila*, – who worked as a mine security guard at the time – was even happier when the man, an official with a government health department, soon moved in with her.
Journalist alleges some Zimbabweans are "deliberately infected by their partners who go on an HIV-spreading spree"
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