Harare , Zimbabwe ( CNN ) -- Zimbabwe 's government has dropped charges against six health workers accused of dispersing AIDS/HIV drugs without appropriate documentation . `` The state is withdrawing charges against the accused , '' Chris Mutangadura , a senior lawyer with Zimbabwe 's attorney general , told a Harare magistrate court Wednesday . Four Americans , a New Zealander , and a Zimbabwean were arrested in Harare two weeks ago . Police had accused the American health workers of dispensing AIDS drugs without proper registration and licences , claims they flatly denied . Before their arrest , the U.S. health workers had been working in Zimbabwe for almost a decade on HIV/AIDs projects and were given a farm by the government to operate from in Mutoko , about 200 kilometers east of Harare . They have numerous patients , most of whom were AIDS orphans , at the farm . They also operated an AIDS clinic in Harare . The Americans belong to the Allen Temple Baptist Church AIDS Ministry in Oakland , California . The church serves a predominantly African-American congregation . Three or four times a year since 2000 , members have paid their own way to Zimbabwe to give antiretroviral medicine , vitamins , clothing and food baskets to impoverished people with AIDS . `` The AG has been sympathetic to them because they are assisting the public , '' said Jonathan Samukange their lawyer as he left the magistrate court with his clients . The Americans are Dr. Anthony Jones , nurses David Greenberg and Gregory Miller , and Allen Temple Baptist Church AIDS Ministry administrator Gloria Cox-Crowell . They were working with two other doctors -- Reid Andrew Cheyne of New Zealand and Tembinkosi Ncomanzi of Zimbabwe .
The four Americans were from a California AIDS ministry . Two others were from Zimbabwe and New Zealand . They have operations in Harare and Mutoko .