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The paper argues the Zimbabwe government’s request to close NGOs is flawed: shutdowns do not transfer resources to local control but instead reduce local capacity and push workers to migrate. 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By cooperating with the US government and world non-governmental organizations (NGOs), such as the United States AID (USAID), United Nations Aids Fund (UNAIDS), United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef), Families with Aids Care Trust (Fact) and faith based organizations, such as the Salvation Army, the prevalence rate has declined from 32% in 1990 to 15.3% in 2010. Based on this obvious success, and the fear that foreign NGOs interfere in the internal politics of the country, the Zimbabwe government has asked these organizations to close and hand over their operations and resources to the government controlled National Aids Council. The paper argues that when NGOs are forced to close operations, they do not hand over their resources to a foreign government. They dismiss workers and migrate to a neighboring country. Secondly, the new prevalence figure of 15.3% is the fifth highest in the world. When taking into account high HIV-AIDS related deaths between 2004 and 2010, and the huge migration from Zimbabwe of 3.5 million people during that same period, the lower HIV-AIDS prevalence is due to these factors rather than an improvement in prevention. Consolidating NGOs work under the government umbrella actually dissipates resources rather than consolidates them. Resources falling under government control are subject to looting and political mismanagement. An additional fallacy is a government program that gives the impression that circumcision is a cure.\u003Cbr>Keywords: HIV-AIDS, fallacies, non-governmental organizations, Zimbabwe, government, prevalence, National Aids Council. |\n| --- |\n| *Corresponding author. E-mail: [kenmufuka@yahoo.com](kenmufuka@yahoo.com). |\n\nINTRODUCTION  \nIn 1996, this author directed a three person team to make a comparative study of the causes related to HIV-AIDS prevalence in Zimbabwe and to make policy recommendations usable by political authorities in Southern African countries, including Zimbabwe. The six year research, based on Clemson University School of Nursing Professor Shirley Timmons’ doctoral dissertation, was entitled: “Knowledge Efficacy as a Preventive Paradigm for Addressing HIV-Aids Pandemic.” In this study, published in AFRICA INSIGHT under the same name, the conclusion was inescapable that knowledge alone was insufficient as a deterrent to risky behavior. Whether the subjects were African Americans in South Carolina or Africans in Malawi-Zimbabwe-South African labor migrant corridor, knowledge efficacy did not overcome resistance to behavior change; “in terms of how HIV is transmitted and what risk prevention  \nbehaviors exist, such as condom use. Many individuals, however, have failed to heed this information or to change their at risk sexual behavior.” This behavior is referred to in both the United Nations and the Center for Disease Control to suggest a need for the study of new preventive measures in view of the failure of knowledge efficacy as a preventative measure ( Mufuka et al. , 2006) .  \nData related to Central Africa labor migration to the gold mines, gleaned over from Scottish missionaries, and dating back to between 1905 and 1932, revealed that as early as 1932, the prevalence of venereal diseases and the destruction of family cohesion were part of a three headed monster. Missionaries became aware that sexual diseases spread largely through labor migration from Malawi through Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) into the South African gold mines and vice versa. Migration of young men from Malawi to the gold mines of South Africa was  \nconsidered the most si","cbCaitCQaqs2kgF9","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaitCQaqs2kgF9","pdf",67055,"English","# Introduction\n## Current fallacies","[{\"question\":\"What does the paper argue about the role of foreign NGOs in Zimbabwe’s HIV-AIDS response?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that forcing NGOs to close does not transfer their resources to a foreign-free local structure; workers may be dismissed and migrate to neighboring countries.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the paper say the prevalence decline to 15.3% is not proof of improved prevention?\",\"answer\":\"It links the decline to high HIV-AIDS related deaths between 2004 and 2010 and to major Zimbabwe-to-outside migration of about 3.5 million people.\"},{\"question\":\"What additional “fallacy” does the paper mention regarding HIV-AIDS prevention or treatment?\",\"answer\":\"It criticizes a government program that gives the impression that circumcision is a cure for HIV-AIDS.\"}]","New fallacies about HIV-AIDS in Zimbabwe | PDF",18]