Healthcare

According to the World Health Organisation Zimbabwe has the lowest life expectancy for any country in the world with the 'at birth' statistics for a man 37 and a woman 34

Zimbabwe used to be a place with so much hope, its future looked wonderful. As a black woman I really felt we were going somewhere. A man took over and gradually turned into a monster. He has torn the place to pieces - like a cat playing with a squeaking mouse. Medical News Today

'It is a tragedy' Catholic Archbishop of Zimbabwe Pius Ncube decried the educational situation in the country, saying, among other scathing indictments of Mugabe, "We had the best education in Africa and now our schools are closing.

Having refused entry to the Food and Agriculture Organisation and World Food Programme (WFP) in 2006, the government has backtracked in allowing these agencies to return. Their prediction is that, by the peak of the hunger season in March 2009, 5.1 million people will be in need of food aid, about 40% of the population and an increase of 1.0 million over 2008. WFP

HIV peaked in 2005 with over 20% of the population infected with the disease. This has since dropped to 15.6% in 2006 but no figures are currently available for 2007. USAID