Clinics have been forced to close as halt in funding impacts country’s donor-dependent health sector

Chiedza Makura only learned she had been dismissed from her nursing job when a WhatsApp message came through on the evening of 28 January. The 37-year-old single mother of three worked as an HIV nurse at Zim-TTech, a private voluntary organisation established out of the University of Washington’s International Training and Education Center for Health in 2003, to provide HIV and Aids-related services.

“I felt shuttered,” Makura told the Guardian, after finding herself out of a job and struggling to feed her family and keep them in school. For the past three years she had been earning $500 (£400) a month. “My job was my only source of income. I still do not know what to do,” she says.

We would like to hear about tattoos you regret, and your recent experiences of having them removed

Comedian Pete Davidson has revealed that he underwent a lengthy process of removing around 200 tattoos.

“I’m trying to clean slate it, trying to be an adult,” he said during a recent appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. He added that he only saw himself keeping “two or three” of them.

We want to hear how you are coping with the cost of rent for residential properties and how you are trying to manage it

With typical advertised rents outside London being £1,341 a month, and average rents within the capital reaching a record £2,695 a month, we’re interested in finding out more about how you are trying to deal with high rents for residential properties.

Have you decided to rent a room as a couple to save money? Perhaps you have downsized your home to cut costs? We’d like to hear your stories of dealing with high rents.