{"id":44796,"date":"2021-08-10T16:36:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T14:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=44796"},"modified":"2021-08-10T16:21:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T14:21:20","slug":"health-experts-urge-people-with-hiv-to-take-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/health-experts-urge-people-with-hiv-to-take-covid-19-vaccine","title":{"rendered":"Health Experts Urge People With HIV To Take COVID-19 Vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Ministry of Health and Child Care has dispelled speculation that the COVID-19 vaccine may cause severe side effects to people living with HIV.<\/p>\n<p>Social media has been awash with fake news aimed to discourage people from receiving the Covid-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry\u2019s health promotions manager Mr Paul Chinakidzwa told a virtual media briefing on HIV and Covid-19 vaccination, organised by the Zimbabwe Association of Church-Related Hospitals, that those living with HIV needed to be vaccinated noting that the World Health Organisation (WHO) approved the use of these vaccines. He said:<\/p>\n<p>The vaccine often includes genetic material from SARS-Cov-2, but do not contain the whole virus so as a result of that the virus does not replicate. Since they are not live vaccines they are not expected to be less safe in people who are immune-compromised.<\/p>\n<p>No pharmacological interactions have been reported between Covid-19 vaccines and the antiretroviral drugs.<\/p>\n<p>People living with HIV should continue to take the antiretroviral therapy even after receiving vaccination in order to maintain their health and to prevent onward HIV transmission.<\/p>\n<p>Those living with HIV and not taking ART or whose HIV infection is not well managed may be at increased risk for contracting Covid-19 due to having a compromised immune system and risk having serious symptoms that lead to death.<\/p>\n<p>ZACH public health advisor Dr Vimbai Mandizvidza said the major challenge facing people living with HIV is the restriction of movement to access health services.<\/p>\n<p>She also said there have been supply-chain challenges as the pandemic affected the movement of procured medications and laboratory consumables.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Mandizvidza said ZACH will continue to work with the Ministry of Health to ensure that they never run out of ART stocks.<\/p>\n<p><b>More: The Herald<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. The Ministry of Health and Child Care has dispelled speculation that the COVID-19 vaccine may cause severe side effects to people living with HIV. Social media has been awash with fake news aimed to discourage people from receiving the Covid-19 vaccine. The ministry\u2019s health promotions manager Mr Paul Chinakidzwa told a virtual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":44795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1361,35,15],"tags":[1493,2189,1957,5160,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-44796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-coronavirus-in-zimbabwe","9":"category-homepage-english","10":"category-twitter","11":"tag-africa-press","12":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","13":"tag-aids-and-hiv","14":"tag-ministry-of-health-and-child-care-mohcc","15":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Health Experts Urge People With HIV To Take COVID-19 Vaccine - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Ministry of Health and Child Care has dispelled speculation that the COVID-19 vaccine may cause severe side effects ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/health-experts-urge-people-with-hiv-to-take-covid-19-vaccine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Health Experts Urge People With HIV To Take COVID-19 Vaccine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Ministry of Health and Child Care has dispelled speculation that the COVID-19 vaccine may cause severe side effects ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/health-experts-urge-people-with-hiv-to-take-covid-19-vaccine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-08-10T14:36:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-08-10T14:21:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/08\/img-61128b45cfd2a.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"704\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/health-experts-urge-people-with-hiv-to-take-covid-19-vaccine\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/health-experts-urge-people-with-hiv-to-take-covid-19-vaccine\",\"name\":\"Health Experts Urge People With HIV To Take COVID-19 Vaccine - 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