Why zimbabwean people refuse to go for HIV & AIDS testing?

They don't need it !!!!!

there are a lot of rumours in african countries that contraception is bad for you so maybe there is a rumour about hiv testing being bad for you

Here are a few articles that might help:

http://www.worldpress.org/Africa/1942.cf...

http://www.rockofafrica.org/news/zim_hiv...

http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/od/gap/countri...

Because there is a big stigma attached to HIV/AIDS like back when gay people in US were 'the baddies'.

It isn't that they refuse it's that in 9 out of 10 places the tests just aren't available. These people are not stupid they'te just forgotten.

I know of a Zimbabwean lady who quite recently found out that she was HIV positive. I remember the agony of hearing her softly crying in her bed almost every night and I had no idea how to help. I was one of the people who had urged her to go for an HIv test because she was usualy sickly. After it was confirmed that she was, She absolutely broke down and was unconsolable. For her, at least going for an HIV test was not helpful at all. While I usually encourage people to go for these tests, I usually keep in mind that I should not judge them harshly if they choose not too, for nothing much can be done for them by the community to make sure that they live a positive life after the test unlike in developed countries. By the way this lady died a week ago and her memory is still fresh on my mind though I am miles away from her..

well , funny you ask this question , i am zimbabwean myself and i think that there are two sides to this coin as there is to everything . i think that it is a vague generalization that Zimbabweans dont like AIDS testing. i know many people that appreciate the worth of these tests and have embrassed the idea .on the other hand though yes there are people that dont like it as is the same all over the world. for many reasons of course , maybe the idea of facing reality scares us as human beings or it boils down to tradition were one does not feel thre need to.
at the end of the day i think that it all comes down to the individual and i can assure you its not just Zimbabweans that dislike the idea .