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Zimbabwe is in the midst of a devastating health emergency, and PHR needs your help to urge the US and the international community to take action.

Public health workers in Harare report that due to lack of medicine, equipment, services, and staff, public hospitals and clinics are essentially closed, resulting in preventable deaths and the destruction of families and communities. A cholera epidemic is spreading throughout the country and daily death tolls are on the rise. Fresh water is no longer pumped into urban areas, which will only exacerbate the spread of this infectious disease caused by contaminated water. A doctor at Harare hospital described the situation as a "disaster of unimaginable proportions".

Your colleagues—doctors, nurses, public health leaders, medical students, and human rights activists in Zimbabwe—are fighting for their patients. Hundreds held a protest in November to call for more medicine and supplies for their patients, but were violently dispersed by riot police. In the same week, the government closed the medical school in Harare indefinitely, leaving hundreds of students on the street—and millions of Zimbabweans without the next generation of health leadership.

The health situation in Zimbabwe, which has been declining for years, is now a disaster. The international community must take urgent action to save lives. Sign the petition below and urge the US Secretary of State to take decisive action TODAY to stop more needless deaths in Zimbabwe.

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