The country reached the goal last year, ahead of timelines set by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS target to ramp up HIV testing to 95 percent of the infected so they know their status, treatment for 95 percent of those testing positive, and viral suppression in 95 percent of the treated by 2025.
"We had a meeting with one of our biggest funders PEPFAR and we were recognised together with Botswana and Lesotho as the only countries in sub-Saharan Africa that had achieved the 95-95-95 targets. Zimbabwe has made substantial progress in the fight against the HIV epidemic. In 2020, the country had the sixth-highest HIV prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa, with 1,3 million people aged 15 to 64 years living with HIV.
Of those people on treatment, 95 percent of them were virally suppressed meaning the medication they were taking was working to suppress the HIV virus.
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