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Women living with HIV and AIDS in Chiendambuya, eastern Zimbabwe, are taking charge to avert critical food shortages their country is grappling with.

Losing his parents to AIDS at the age of nine meant that eager student Life Mbedzi had to drop out of school. But a few years down the line and he's back in class.

It is the lean season in Zimbabwe – the last few months before harvests arrive in April – and hunger levels are reaching a peak. WFP is targeting more than 5 million hungry people.

What used to be a patch of gravel behind the Makombe's homestead in Musipami Village, Zvishavane, is now a thriving 100 square meter garden of green and leafy vegetables—a small miracle in a country which is suffering from a complex economic, political, and agricultural decline.

Bravieouse Moloi still can't get over how quickly it took for officials to grant her permission to remain in South Africa while her asylum request is processed. Less than a week after crossing the border from her native Zimbabwe, the 19-year-old has an asylum seeker permit and is looking for work.

Cholera victims were in agony on the damp grass outside an overfilled clinic in Chinrundu, a small community in the Northwest region of Zimbabwe. The rural clinic, which only has the capacity to treat eight patients, has been overwhelmed by the cholera emergency; its staff has already witnessed 185 cases and 16 deaths.

A humanitarian crisis is unfolding in the South African border town of Musina. Historically the transit point for migrants seeking work in the country’s larger cities, it has now become the entry point for many desperate Zimbabweans fleeing the economic and social collapse in their country.

Artist Mike Munyaradzi was born in 1967 in Guruve, Zimbabwe. The son of world famous sculptor Henry Munyaradzi, Mike started his apprenticeship at the early age of 13 under the guidance of his father. In the second part of a special three part series on Art for AIDS. Mike shares his experiences as an artist and discusses the meaning of his Eradication sculpture and how artists have a role to play in the AIDS response.