Girls sell sex for empty beer bottles in Zimbabwe

Girls as young as 12 are selling sex for empty beer bottles.  most of these girls have been forced into sex work by either poverty or the death of their parents.  some of their interviewed said that they were given empty beer or soft drink bottles as payment which they would then sell for less than $ 0.50 cents each.  others are being paid cash for providing their services, others are paid used blankets, clothes and food.  the highest amount these young sex workers were getting per day was $ 16.

Woman With HIV Arrested For Breastfeeding Neighbour's Baby

Zimbabwean woman  Annie Mpariwa (39 years old)  who is HIV positive has been arrested for breastfeeding a neighbour's baby without her consent.The case which is already in court has been set for further hearing on the 24th of October for an HIV test to be performed on the baby. She was arrested last week on charges of common nuisance and should the child test positive; the charge will be raised to “deliberately infecting another person with HIV”. The mother of the 14-month-old baby said seeing her child being breastfed by her neighbour was traumatising.
According to her, the neighbour snatched the child while she was playing outside and hid her in her room. But after searching for the child for quite some time, she went and knocked on Annie’s rented room and got no response. Upon peeping through the window, she saw her breastfeeding the little girl.
The mother of the child said she  was shocked and  nearly fainted.