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Other indicator goods necessary for health that have been monitored over time are shown in Figure 7. The costs of most of these goods were reported to have fallen slightly in September 2012, with condoms showing a small price increase. Food security has largely remained at low levels despite wider availability of food commodities. As shown in Table 6 and Figure 8, the share of sites where households were reported to have no food stocks remained at relatively high levels(over 60%). This is not surprising given the shift from own produce to commercial foods described earlier, but does indicate that food security in terms of own stocks has been deteriorating since 2009. 7
Table 6: Reported levels of household food stocks % sites reporting food stocks that last More 1-3 Less None than 4 months than 1 Province months month Bulawayo 2 15 50 33 Harare 5 15 40 40 Manicaland 0 0 20 80 Mashonaland Central 5 11 17 67 Mashonaland East 0 12 18 70 Mashonaland West 0 14 24 62 Masvingo 1 2 15 82 Matabeleland North 1 2 14 83 Matabeleland South 0 7 18 75 Midlands 0 13 20 67 Total Sept 2012 3 8 24 65 Total June 2012 4 9 24 64 Total March 2012 14 16 28 63 Total Sept 2011 6 13 18 63 Total June 2011 9 15 20 56 Total March 2011 6 14 30 50 Total Sept 2010 12 12 21 55 Total June 2010 16 24 31 29 Total March 2010 14 19 24 44 Total June 2009 2 29 30 39 Total March 2009 1 3 10 86 The provinces with the poorest reported household food stocks were Masvingo, Matabeleland North and Manicaland. If the returns from the other production activities are not adequately supporting food security, as it appears from the evidence, then more focus needs to be given to incentives for food production, such as in making inputs more affordable for food producers, especially women producers. Environments for health Access to safe water (within a distance of 500m) is reported to have shown mixed outcomes, with a small rise in sites with more than three quarters of households having access and a larger rise in sites with less than a quarter of households having access (See Figure 9). Access is greater in urban than rural sites, and nearly a third (30%) of sites report less than a quarter of the households in their site having access to safe water (See Figure 9) 8
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