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[...]some insiders say that the fall is due only partly to changes in sexual behaviour, and much more to the dearth of statistics, the mass emigration of economically active adults who carry the virus, and the fact that Zimbabweans are dying of, rather than living with, HIV/AIDS. Since 1990, HIV/AIDS has slashed the average life expectancy from 61 to 33 years. In February, UNICEF and the Zimbabwe government reached an agreement with NGOs, backed by $70 million in donor funds over the next 5 years, to improve the living conditions of 350 000 Zimbabwean orphans and vulnerable children by boosting school enrolment and nutrition programmes and improving access to food, health services, and sanitation. [...]organisations caring for people with HIV/AIDS are still coping with the fallout from Operation Drive Out Trash, including an estimated 79 500 adults living with HIV and disrupted ARV provision. “The hardest hit elements of society then, were women and young people, amongst whom were people suffering from tuberculosis, and pneumonia, and people living with HIV/AIDS whose medication was disrupted and their access to home-based care taken away.