Econet in smart partnership with City of Harare to spruce up First Street

By Byron Mutingwende   In pursuit of coming up with a metropolitan that competes with world capitals in terms of infrastructure, architecture, service delivery and facilities, Econet Wireless Zimbabwe is partnering the City of Harare in a project to spruce up First Street.   In his speech during the launch of the project, Lovemore Nyatsine,…

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Investing in adolescents and young people critical for development

By Byron Mutingwende   Investing in adolescents and young people is a critical ingredient for attaining the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a youth meeting held in Harare has revealed. The Youth Advocates Zimbabwe, National Aids Council and Ministry of Health and Child Care hosted the National High-Level Meeting to share best practices, innovations and skills…

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Respect women and girls’ SRH rights: Sekuru Banda

By Byron Mutingwende   Still basking in the glory of winning the coveted “Most Popular Religious Leader Award” by the Achievers Forum Zimbabwe, Sekuru Banda said society should respect and uphold women and girls sexual and reproductive health rights.   According to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Zimbabwe, teenage pregnancy is one of the…

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Prison officer dismissed for disloyalty and undermining President Mnangagwa

The Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service (ZPCS) has dismissed from employment, John Mahlabera, a prison officer, after convicting him for undermining President Emmerson Mnangagwa and posting a Tweet viewed by his superiors as disloyal to the ruling ZANU PF party leader. The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) reported that Mahlabera was convicted on Monday…

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YADT Holds Public Speaking Competition

By Edward Makuzva Youth Aspire Development Trust (YADT) recently held a public speaking competition with 10 colleges in Chitungwiza with a  support from Her Voice funding so as to capacitate adolescents on sexual and reproductive health rights . The public speaking competition focused on Adolescent health, Gender Based violence, TB, Malaria and HIV and AIDS and also…

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Giving scientific knowledge an indigenous face in developing countries

By Charles Dhewa The intersection between health and nutrition continues to be a grey area for ordinary people in many developing countries. There have not been serious efforts to develop appropriate ways of sharing nutrition knowledge with the majority. For instance, formal education systems have not done enough to move health and nutrition from being…

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Rwanda’s First Lady joins PAP to support women’s fight against corruption

The First Lady of Rwanda, H.E Mrs Jeannette Kagame joined Pan-African Parliament Members to call for women’s role in fighting against corruption on the continent. This is in line with the theme of the 11th Pan-African Parliament Conference on Women’s Rights under the theme: “Pan-African Parliament fights against corruption” being hosted in Kigali, Rwanda. The two-day conference scheduled to conclude…

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Zim civil society meets SADC chair, Namibian President Heingob

By ZimRights Information Department   Windhoek, Namibia – A joint delegation of civil society leaders from Zimbabwe and civil society solidarity partners from the Southern African region, yesterday, met Southern African Development Community (SADC) chairperson and Namibian president, H.E Hage Geingob, in Windhoek, Namibia. Members of the delegation drawn from the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition…

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MSF leaves a big footprint in Zimbabwe’s cholera fight

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)/Doctors Without Borders’ response to Zimbabwe’s second largest cholera outbreak is bearing a positive impact towards addressing the epidemic. Zimbabwe has been grappling with cholera since 12 September 2018 when the outbreak was officially declared an emergency. This is the second largest cholera outbreak the country has seen after the devastating epidemic that…

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Cuba urges Zimbabwe to remain firm and resolute in its quest for development

By Byron Mutingwende Cuba’s Ambassador, Her Excellence Carmelina Ramirez Rodriguez has said her country enjoys a long-standing relationship with Zimbabwe and urged the Southern African country to remain resolute as it works towards development.   In an exclusive interview with Spiked Online Media, Ambassador Rodriguez said the relationship between the two countries that date back…

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Address political, social and economic challenges: Prophet Acelimo Magaya

By Miriam Zvomuya and Gideon Madzikatidze The Zimbabwe Divine Destiny Executive Director, Bishop Ancelimo Magaya has urged the government of Zimbabwe to urgently arrest socio-economic and political decay. The clergyman said it was clear the government was incapacitated and performing worse than the previous Mugabe administration. Speaking at a press conference in Harare yesterday, Bishop…

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Stakeholder collaboration on track towards eliminating cholera

By Byron Mutingwende Stakeholder collaborative efforts are on the right track towards the elimination of cholera and typhoid. Speaking during the on-going media training workshop on cholera reporting in Mazowe, Dr Portia Manangazira, the Director of Epidemiology and Disease Control in the Ministry of Health and Child Care hailed stakeholder collaboration towards the elimination of…

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MSF bemoans high prices of TB drugs

People suffering from drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) continue to be deprived of today’s best-possible treatment in part because of high drug prices, according to a new report — DR-TB Drugs Under the Microscope — released by Doctors Without Borders ( MSF) at the 49th Union World Conference on Lung Health in The Hague. MSF is now calling on…

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Very soon Zimbabwean problems will be over: Bishop Tinashe Mazangwa

By Byron Mutingwende Charismatic South-African based prophet and preacher, Bishop Tinashe Mazangwa has assured the nation that the Zimbabwean problems will be a thing of the past very soon. Zimbabweans are enduring persistent economic hardships that were worsened by the recent fiscal and monetary policy statements by Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube and Reserve Bank Governor…

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Spatial Data the Focus of UNWTO Sustainable Tourism Observatories Meeting

The World Tourism Organisation’s (UNWTO) International Network of Sustainable Tourism Observatories (INSTO) concluded its global annual meeting yesterday in Madrid, welcoming observatories and other tourism stakeholders to share experiences of measuring and monitoring the impact tourism has on destinations, and explore the opportunities provided to tourism by innovation in location services. With a revamped structure…

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Sekuru Banda donates R11 million worth of goods to people with albinism

Sekuru Banda wipes away tears of people with albinism By Byron Mutingwende People with albinism face a plethora of challenges but through his benevolence, Sekuru Banda has embarked on an initiative that will wipe away their tears. A beneficiary with albinism narrated some of the challenges he and many others with a similar condition with…

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PAP calls for stronger African integration

The first ordinary session of the fifth Parliament of the Pan-African Parliament kicked off officially on Monday 22/10/2018 at the Kigali Convention Centre in Rwanda, where legislators from across the continent convened to dissect matters pertaining to the continent’s progress. Held under the theme: “Winning the Fight against Corruption: A Sustainable Path to Africa’s Transformation”, the sixth ordinary…

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Linda-Gail Bekker receives Desmond Tutu Award for HIV prevention research

The co-chairs of HIV Research for Prevention (HIVR4P 2018), the world’s only scientific meeting dedicated exclusively to biomedical HIV prevention, have announced that the 2018 Desmond Tutu Award for HIV Prevention Research and Human Rights will be presented to HIV researcher, physician and community advocate Linda-Gail Bekker of Cape Town, South Africa. The presentation will…

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Patients in dilemma as pharmacies demand foreign currency for medication: CWGH

The Community Working Group on Health (CWGH) has urged the government to urgently avail enough foreign currency to the pharmaceutical industry to enable patients to access their life-saving medications which they are failing to buy because most pharmacies are demanding payment in foreign currency.   CWGH highlighted that about 90% of the country’s workforce earn…

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Family Planning Ambassador Adiona Chidzonga is an inspiration

By Byron Mutingwende   Adiona Chidzonga, the Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council (ZNFPC) Brand Ambassador since January 2018 is an inspiration to the nation.   The ZNFPC is mandated to coordinate, take leadership and support implementation of integrated FP and related SRHR services in Zimbabwe. This includes provision of technical assistance to the family planning…

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Family planning is a human right: ZNFPC

By Byron Mutingwende   The Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council (ZNFPC) is advocating for rights-based approach to family planning (FP) that treats individuals as full human beings in their own right and as active agents not as passive beneficiaries.   Dr Munyaradzi Murwira, the ZNFPC Executive Director at a media sensitisation workshop currently running in…

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ZNFPC Provides Overview of Contraceptive use in Zimbabwe

By Byron Mutingwende   The Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council (ZNFPC) has provided a comprehensive overview of contraceptive use in the country.   The ZNFPC Service Delivery Coordinator for Manicaland Province, Mr Kennedy Majero, provided the update on Monday 15 October 2018 during a Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) Media Advocacy workshop in Mutare….

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Econet, Higherlife Foundation embark on massive clean-up campaign

By Gideon Madzikatidze Mobile telephony giant, Econet and Higherlife Foundation has embarked on a massive clean-up campaign in the high density suburbs of Budiriro and Glenview in an endeavour to combat cholera. Econet and Higherlife Foundation representative, Mr. Lovemore Nyatsine said the organisation has already recruited 600 volunteers serving as health stewards or advocates in…

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Embracing FP, SRHR and eradicating GBV ensures positive health outcomes

By Byron Mutingwende   Fostering sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR), family planning (FP) methods and working towards the eradication of gender-based violence (GBV) is critical in attaining positive health outcomes.   This emerged at the SRHR, FP and GBV media sensitisation workshop on-going in Mutare coordinated by the Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council (ZNFPC)…

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Japan gives US$1 million for food security, nutrition and health project

At Tsholotsho Hospital on Thursday 11 October 2018, the Government of Japan officially handed over a contribution of US$ 1 million to enhance the resilience of drought- and flood-affected communities in Zimbabwe through a comprehensive set of health, nutrition, food security and WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) interventions. The project is being implemented by the…

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Zim-Afro Medical and Health Expo calls for innovation to improve healthcare

By Byron Mutingwende and Munyaradzi Dhure The eighth edition of the Zim-Afro Medical and Health Expo has emphasised the importance of upholding high standards of quality and safety in pursuit of achieving Universal Health Coverage. The conference had sub-themes of innovative regulatory models, safe practice and quality as well as medical and health education. In…

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