According to UNICEF, Zimbabwe has the world’s fourth-highest rate of HIV prevalence and has been grappling with a food emergency, declining economic performance and the sharpest rises in child mortality in history. Growing international isolation resulting from controversial government policies has led to greatly reduced donor funds for the country; UNICEF has been appealing to the international community to look beyond the politics and focus on Zimbabwe’s children. A campaign of demolitions and evictions made more than half a million people homeless in 2005.
According to UNICEF, Zimbabwe has the world’s fourth-highest rate of HIV prevalence and has been grappling with a food emergency, declining economic performance and the sharpest rises in child mortality in history. Growing international isolation resulting from controversial government policies has led to greatly reduced donor funds for the country; UNICEF has been appealing to the international community to look beyond the politics and focus on Zimbabwe’s children. A campaign of demolitions and evictions made more than half a million people homeless in 2005.
