Zimbabwe’s Sickness

A devastating report from Physicians for Human Rights decribes the health situation in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe is suffering from a mounting health crisis, and it is almost entirely man-made. Just as President Mugabe has long politicized the delivery of food aid, he has similarly manipulated the health system. The report asks exactly the right question: “When government policies lead directly to the shuttering of hospitals and clinics, the closing of its medical school, and the beatings of health workers, are we to consider the attendant deaths and injuries as any different from those resulting from a massacre of similar proportions?”