In a country already reeling from widespread food shortages and hyperinflation, hundreds of thousands of people are thought to be at risk from the current cholera epidemic.

Oxfam has launched an appeal to provide support to 1 million people in Zimbabwe. We have been responding to the growing crisis since October by carrying out hygiene promotion and providing soap, disinfectant and clean water.

So far our response has been focusing on three worst hit areas: Beitbridge on the South African border; Budiriro, a suburb of Harare; and Mudzi, an area bordering Mozambique. We also plan to start moving into areas where cholera has not hit, to proactively prevent the spread of the disease.

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