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Higherlife Foundation and Delta Philanthropies host vision 2050 webinar series
Higherlife Foundation and Delta Philanthropies this week host a 5-part virtual webinar series under the theme Catalysing Vision 2050. From 1 to 3 December 2020, the organisations bring together a cosmopolitan array of speakers for conversations on Education, Health, Rural Transformation and Sustainable Livelihoods, Disaster Relief and Preparedness and Entrepreneurship and Accessing Finance. Higherlife Foundation…
TB policies aren’t working. Here’s why.
By Jenny Lei Ravelo MANILA — Tuberculosis has long suffered from limited tools for testing and treatment, but a new report finds that it also faces policy disparities between what is recommended globally and what is rolled out in countries. In 2018, governments committed to a set of ambitious targets in the fight against tuberculosis during…
Maisha Health in diabetes awareness campaign
Maisha Health is offering free blood glucose measurements at selected sites across the country as part of World Diabetes Month commemorations. The Cassava Smartech Zimbabwe health tech unit said the awareness campaign was aimed at detecting early signs of diabetes. The chronic disease, which affects about 1,4 million people in the country, is a major…
How COVID-19 Catalysed Digital Health Trends
Bertalan Meskó, MD, PhD Coronavirus has shattered our world and changed nearly all aspects of our lives. It has also changed our relationship to healthcare. It is slowly becoming a cliché to say that COVID-19 has catalysed healthcare trends – but nevertheless, it’s true. Everyone in the world has seen what devastating impact healthcare can…
Improve access to education, health, and social protection for children with disabilities
Stakeholders have been urged to work towards improving the access to education, health, and social protection for children with severe disabilities. Dr. John Mangwiro, the Deputy Minister of Health and Child Care made the call in Harare yesterday while addressing a stakeholders’ sensitisation meeting organised by the Zimbabwe Parents of Handicapped Children Association (ZPHCA). “As…
Kenya: Improved access to testing and care reduced new HIV infections in Homa Bay
Brienne Prusak – MSF Medical & Global Health Press Officer Working with local health facilities to bring quality HIV/AIDS testing and treatment closer to communities improved public health and significantly reduced the percentage of the people living with HIV in Ndhiwa sub-county in Homa Bay, Kenya, according to a study released this month by the…
Launch of Dzidzo Paden/Imfundwe’ Ndlini App to support remote learning and access to academic resources
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in partnership with the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education and the Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (ZIMSEC) will launch a WhatsApp-based educational application, Dzidzo Paden|Imfundwe’ndlini, on Monday 23 November 2020 in Harare. Dzidzo paden|Imfundwe’ndlini is a WhatsApp automated chatbot aimed at distributing premium academic resources to…
The Naked Truth: Zimbabwe’s sex edutainment TV show launches
The Naked Truth Show premieres its first episode, “Sex and Addiction”, on the 26th of November 2020 at 7 pm CAT streaming on YouTube and Facebook. The Naked Truth Show is Zimbabwe’s Premium show that exercises prominence on Sex Health Education aimed at elucidating taboo conversations about SEX, SEXUALITY, and SEXUAL HEALTH. As the common…
What will it take for South Africa to prevent TB
By Ivy Apolisi and Dr Liesbet Ohler South Africa has good TB policies, an impressive achievement that comes through in Step Up for TB 2020, a report released this week by Stop TB Partnership and Doctors Without Borders (MSF), which assesses TB policy in 37 high TB-burden countries. For lives to be saved, though, policy must…
Support WTO move to suspend monopolies during COVID-19: MSF
By Brienne Prusak (Medical & Global Health Press Officer) Allowing pharmaceutical corporations to enforce patents would prolong the pandemic by preventing generic manufacturers from creating more affordable versions of medicines, vaccines, and diagnostics All governments, including the US, should support the request at the World Trade Organization (WTO) to waive certain intellectual property (IP) protections…
HYCM Unveils COVID-19 Impact on Financial Markets
As one of the leading forex brokers, HYCM is committed to educating those interested in the financial markets HYCM (www.HYCM.com), a well-established global forex broker, attended an exclusive financial webinar as a guest of the American University in Dubai, where Giles Coghlan, Group Chief Currency Analyst, presented COVID-19 Outbreak’s Impact on The Financial Markets (https://bit.ly/32UCVGo). Over 90 finance…
COVID-19 spurs digital revolution in Zimbabwe’s newsrooms
by LUNGELO NDHLOVU In the face of COVID-19 containment measures that have made it increasingly difficult to distribute print newspapers, many media companies in Zimbabwe have begun to introduce their products in digital formats. In doing so, outlets have proven able to more cheaply reach audiences outside their typical distribution areas. This has been critical, especially in light…
Turning the tide: The fight to reclaim gains and accelerate progress for women and children
By INGER ASHING; NORBERT BARTHLE; STEPHAN SCHØNEMANN; LEONIE CLAUDINE LOUGUÉ SORGHO; JOSHUA TABAH 2020 was set to be a year of milestones for gender equality and health: Half a decade into the Sustainable Development Goals, 10 years since the establishment of UN Women, 20 years since the UN Security Council Resolution on Women, Peace and…
MSF: New tests and drugs for world’s deadliest infectious disease, TB, remain out of reach
Brienne Prusak (she/her) – MSF Medical & Global Health Press Officer As the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to derail the global response to tuberculosis (TB), the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) called today on governments to accelerate testing, treatment, and prevention of TB. It’s also critical that donors continue to provide…
Vuyo Brown to perform at Music in Africa Live concert
Bulawayo-based Afro Jazz/Gospel star Vuyolwethu Ngwenya who is fondly known in the music circles as Vuyo Brown will be taking part in the ongoing Music in Africa Live hosted by Rooftop Promotions’ Theatre in the Park. Ngwenya is among three local artists selected to perform at this event and her performance will be the second…
Masiyiwa’s comments offer hope on end to the Pandemic
African Union Special Envoy in the fight against COVID-19, pan-African businessman Strive Masiyiwa, has said an end to the deadly pandemic could be in sight as new treatments emerge that offer hope for a permanent cure. Describing leaders as #Merchant of Hope, Masiyiwa writes: This morning I was listening to the latest episode of a…
9 Technologies That Will Shape The Future Of Dentistry
By Bertalan Meskó, MD, PhD One of the most common childhood fears is going to the dentist. Who would not relate? Sitting in a huge chair illuminated by blinding light; enduring lengthy seated sessions with someone looking and poking inside your mouth using edgy and frightening devices. And finally, when the torture is over, that…
Ecobank Group shows its commitment towards Better Health
The leading pan-African banking group, the Ecobank Group (Ecobank.com), yesterday celebrated its eighth annual Ecobank Day, which is the Group’s flagship annual event, showing commitment and giving back to its local communities across 33 African countries. This year’s theme is ‘Take Action Against Diabetes’ and it marks the second stage of a three-year campaign to…
Avenues for aligning agriculture with the nutritional needs of citizens
By Charles Dhewa Avenues for aligning agriculture with the nutritional needs of citizens Pathways for successfully converting rhetoric surrounding nutrition security into reality should include collecting and analysing data from local communities to national levels and markets. Such data can include the volume and value of agricultural commodities flowing from each production versus the amount…
4,000 More to Donate Plasma in Third Drive for COVID-19 Plasma Treatment
On 16 November a third plasma donation drive is planned to start in the South Korean city of Daegu with 4,000 members of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus planning to participate in the fight against COVID-19. With the sudden surge in COVID-19 infections and the alarming increase in deaths, especially in Europe, the need for…
MSF challenges COVID-19 myths with new quiz challenge app
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in association with software developer Pixel Impact has launched a new app that encourages people to behave safely if someone in their family or community catches COVID-19. Taking the form of an interactive quiz challenge, users of the COVID Challenge app are presented with a range of colourfully illustrated scenarios and…
Treat for football legend George Shaya from Doves, Zororo-Phumulani
Sports and Lifestyle Correspondent Doves Funeral Assurance managing director, Talent Maziwisa has urged the corporate world to come up with measures that can sustain the lives of sportsmen and musicians past their prime. Maziwisa made the remarks in his address as the home of the country’s most illustrious and treasured soccer player of all time…
Child cancer can be cured: KidzCan Zimbabwe
By Lorraine Muwuya KidzCan Zimbabwe has re-assured the nation that cancer in children can be cured especially when detected and treated earlier. Cancer has been a disease mostly associated with the white community, the rich, and the elderly. Zimbabwe is among the nations not spared by the disease. The truth be told it is a…
Music In Africa Live grant recipients announced
The Music In Africa Foundation has announced the grant recipients of the Music In Africa Live (MIAL) project, which was developed to support musicians to earn an income from digital live performances while also supporting capacity-building projects that develop critical skills among professionals using digital means. A total of 23 applications were selected by the MIAL jury, 17 of which…
COVID-19 stresses the need to transform Africa’s WASH services sector
By Osward M. Chanda Alarming headlines that announced the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic in Africa in March 2020 have given way to stories of chin-stroking scientists wondering about the reasons for the relatively mild impact – compared to other continents – which COVID-19 has had on Africa. More than 41,000 Africans have died, and…
United States Launches Two Projects Worth US$78 Million to Provide Critical HIV Healthcare Services
Demonstrating its commitment to the people of Zimbabwe, the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), launched two projects worth a combined US$78 million to provide critical HIV healthcare services for over half a million Zimbabweans. “The United States is proud to stand with the…
ZPHCA, grassroots women driving resilience building to climate change, COVID-19
Despite being confronted by the adverse impacts of climate change and COVID-19, grassroots women are united in the fight for disaster mitigation, adaptation, recovery and resilience building. This emerged today at the 2020 Grassroots Women Resilience Building National Convention organised by the Zimbabwe Parents of Handicapped Children Association (ZPHCA). This year’s edition of the Resilience…
COVID-19 generates numerous scams
COVID-19 scams have included supposed cures, fake testing sites and counterfeit personal protective equipment (PPE), Dr Katlego Mothudi, managing director of the Board of Healthcare Funders, a regional healthcare funders’ body, said last week. Addressing an Association of Healthcare Funders of Zimbabwe all stakeholders’ webinar on health on Wednesday, he gave examples of how conmen…
Zimbabwe in state of radical uncertainty, says Prof. Hawkins
Zimbabwe is in a state of radical uncertainty, economic consultant Tony Hawkins told an Association of Healthcare Funders of Zimbabwe (AHFoZ) all stakeholders webinar on health on Wednesday last week. “It is impossible to put numerical probabilities to expected outcomes, making forecasting little more than a lottery,” he said. More than 100 stakeholders in the…
Banding Together is the only way Africa will Beat COVID-19
By Dr. John Nkengasong and Commissioner Amira Elfadil Mohammed Elfadil As of 15th October 2020, the continent has a remarkably low 4.2% of the global burden of the disease and just a little above 3.5% of deaths Everyone knows by now that due to a combination of leadership, environment, social ecology, demographics and as yet…
Chivero Challenge advancing environmental preservation, tourism, and wellness of people
The Chivero Challenge is an international, multidisciplinary event that is advancing environmental preservation, sports recreation, tourism, health, and wellness as well as grassroots sport and recreation development. This was revealed by Mr I. Vambe, the Director of Recreation of the Sports and Recreation Commission in a speech delivered on behalf of Hon Kirsty Coventry, the…
Zimbabwe force Pakistan to dig deep for victory
Pakistan – 281-8 in 50 overs (Haris Sohail 71, Imam-ul-Haq 58, Imad Wasim 34*; Tendai Chisoro 2/31, Blessing Muzarabani 2/39, Sikandar Raza 1/45) Zimbabwe – 255 all out in 49.4 overs (Brendan Taylor 112, Wessly Madhevere 55, Craig Ervine 41; Shaheen Shah Afridi 5/49, Wahab Riaz 4/41, Imad Wasim 1/49) Pakistan won by 26 runs…
Cal_Vin’s Demise A Blow To The Entertainment industry: Edith Weutonga
By Ronnie Chisamba Contemporary traditional music songstress, Edith Weutonga, said the untimely death of local hip-hop star, Mgcini Calvin Nhliziyo (35) – aka Cal_Vin is a blow to the music and entertainment industry at large. Weutonga made the statement during an online interview with this publication earlier today. “His sudden tragic death left us shocked…
ZimBho: stakeholders urged to lower prices to spur domestic tourism
Disturbed by the exorbitant charges on local tourism products, the Minister of Environment, Climate, Tourism, and Hospitality Industry Hon Mangaliso Ndlovu has urged stakeholders in the sector to lower their prices to increase affordability by the majority of citizens to ensure the success of the ZimBho campaign. The ZimBho campaign was launched today by the…
Drug abuse: support and don’t punish victims
Amanda E.N Jojo Social, mental, and economic pressures contribute to the avalanche of reasons why young people use drugs, poverty, and unemployment residing at the very top of the hierarchy. It is however evident that misuse and criminalization of drug users have got repercussions that at times go unnoticed. In this regard, individuals and concurring…
Barometer reveals slow progress of advancing women’s rights in SADC
The 12th #VoiceandChoice Barometer reflects slow progress in advancing women’s rights in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. In her keynote address at the 12th #VoiceandChoice Barometer in Harare on 27 October 2020, Mrs. Virginia Muwanigwa, the Chief Executive Officer of the Zimbabwe Gender Commission called on stakeholders to continue working together in attaining…
‘Say It Louder’ Webinar Series addressing the Impact of COVID-19 on EUP
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted issues such as access to health and education services, including contraception, gender-based violence and teenage pregnancy, highlighting the critical need for targeted messaging, information and resources for young people. The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) released data showing that the pandemic could result in a projected seven million unintended pregnancies. Since July of…
Redan Coupons donates three world-class ambulances to Government
By Anyway Yotamu Vice President and Minister for Health and Child Care Dr. Constatntino Chiwenga has received a donation of three ambulances from Redan Coupons. The three units will service three provincial hospitals and they come with world-class hospital standard life support medical equipment. The Ministry of Health and Child Care is currently in the…
MultiChoice Group Continues Its Support Of Global UN Pause Campaign
As the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic continues, MultiChoice Group (MCG) has reaffirmed its commitment to the United Nations’ (UN’s) efforts to conquer the virus that has wreaked havoc around the globe and will continue to support the global organisation’s Pause campaign in celebration of UN Day which was held on the 24th of October 2020. Through its broadcast and digital…
Pure Oils donates to vulnerable communities
By Anyway Yotamu The country’s leading cooking oil producers, Pure Oils through their ZimGold brand today continues to assist vulnerable communities under the company’s ZimGold Givers Community Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative, by donating cooking oil worth ZW$75000.00 to Touching Lives Africa. Under the ZimGold Givers, Pure Oils identifies community heroes who are doing remarkable work…
New book calls on world leaders to unite in response to health threats
At the occasion of the World Health Summit 2020 and the 75th anniversary of the United Nations, a new book was launched that calls on world leaders and politicians to unite in their response to the COVID-19 pandemic and other threats to health and the global economy. Health: A Political Choice – Act Now, Together is the latest…
Norton Private Clinic receives essential equipment from Susan Mutami
Australia-based Susan Mutami today made a life saving donation to the Norton Private Clinic in fulfilment of the popular saying, “a doctor is as good as the equipment at his disposal.” The donation was in response to a request made by the Chairman of the Norton COVID-19 Taskforce, Hon Temba Mliswa, who is also the…
The Future Of Pharmacies In 3 Scenarios
By Bertalan Meskó, MD, PhD The rapid development of medical technology affects every aspect of medicine and healthcare. Even the seemingly most remote and ivory-tower-like institution isn’t impervious to digital health disruption. We are, of course, talking about the pharmacy. Although these institutions play a crucial role in the healing process, the impression about pharmacists…
Five Key Factors for a Future-Oriented Digital Transformation of Electric Power Enterprises
IDC and Huawei Jointly Released the White Paper for the Electric Power Industry At HUAWEI CONNECT 2020, IDC and Huawei (www.Huawei.com) jointly released the white paper for the electric power industry — Building the Future-Ready Power Enterprise: Road to a Successful Digital Transformation. In the white paper, IDC proposed a methodology for the transformation of…
ZELA analyses 2021 pre-budget strategy on mining transparency reforms
By Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) Introduction The government of Zimbabwe has started processes to develop the 2021 National Budget. Last week, two important 2021 budget formulation milestones were achieved namely; Public Hearings on the 2021 Budget and the release of the 2021 Pre Budget-Strategy Paper. The 2021 Pre Budget Strategy paper themed, “ Building Resilience…