Phyllis Kachere is deputy news editor at the The Sunday Mail in Zimbabwe, which she joined in 2001 as a junior reporter and later served as senior reporter before reaching her present position. She began her mainstream media career as an HIV/AIDS junior reporter in the late 1990s. For Phyllis, after losing two sisters to AIDS, reporting on the subject has stopped being just a news story. Armed with a social science degree, she started out as an information officer in the Zimbabwean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and moved on to mainstream media where she briefly worked for the then Zimbabwe Inter Africa News Agency in 1999. Phyllis was the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists HIV/AIDS Reporter for the years 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2006. She has also been awarded the Union of Catholic Press International Award for HIV/AIDS Reporting for 2007
Phyllis Kachere
Journalism by Phyllis Kachere
UN HIV targets: a waste of time?
08/07/2008

Promises made and never fulfilled? Are commitments made at the UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on HIV and Aids a waste of time?
TB remains a serious challenge among women
08/07/2008

Cost, embarrassment, and family dynamics keep women away from health providers.
Don’t give up the fight…
08/04/2008

As AIDS 2008 begins, Peter Piot – head of UNAIDS – says campaigners can move mountains.
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