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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…
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…
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…
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…
It’s our right to have access to HIV medication: sex workers
Sex workers have a right to equal access to HIV AIDS medication, the Zimbabwe Aids Network Zimbabwe National Coordinator, Taurai Nyandoro has said. The Zimbabwe Aids Network is currently leading more than 250 organisations in the country and offers HIV and AIDS services. Their main global objective is to end HIV AIDS by 2030. Zimbabwe Aids…
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…
IATA repatriation debt repayment plan a welcome development
By Byron Mutingwende The newly formed Team Tourism led by the Minister of Environment, Tourism and Hospitality Industry Honourable Priscah Mupfumira met with the Finance Minister Prof Mthuli Ncube and the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr John Mangudya on Sunday afternoon to discuss a plethora of issues, chief among them the International Air Transport…
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…
Interview with Africa’s richest woman, Isabel dos Santos of Angola
Many people around the world are familiar with Aliko Dangote, a Nigerian who is often described as Africa’s richest man. But Isabel dos Santos, 45, an Angolan businesswoman, is Africa’s richest woman and the eldest child of Angola’s former President José Eduardo dos Santos, who was in power from 1979 to 2017. In 2013, according…
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…
Centre Zimbabwe Africa High School Wins OneMoney Fees For Less Promotion
By Michael Mashiri NetOne has honoured Centre Zimbabwe Africa High School, (CZA) after winning the top position of the OneMoney Fees for Less Promotion with an amount of $ 30 000, followed by Bridging the Gap Academy which had $20 000 and Good Hope Junior School that took home $2 000. Speaking at the handover…
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…
100 MSMEs from 20 countries to attend China International Import Expo
The International Trade Centre (ITC) will provide support to 100 companies from 20 least developed countries and developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America to participate in the China International Import Expo (CIIE), to be held in Shanghai on 5-10 November 2018. The micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) going to China have been…
New UNFPA report focuses on the power to choose
The power to choose the number, timing and spacing of children can bolster economic and social development, according to the State of the World Population Report (SWOP) a yearly report published by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The global trend towards smaller families is a reflection of people making reproductive choices to have as…
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…
Africa Oil Week’s content-rich programme has expanded
Africa Oil Week (Africa-OilWeek.com), the leading international oil and gas event set to take place in Cape Town, South Africa on the 5 – 9 November 2018, will build on 25 years of success by adding a host of sessions and initiatives to their conference programme tailored towards driving transactions, deal-making and new partnerships. Brand…
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….
Liquid Telecoms joins the fight against cholera
By Miriam Zvomuya Following the outbreak of cholera the past few weeks in Zimbabwe, Liquid Telecom today joined the fight against cholera by replacing sewer and water pipe in Glen Norah B. Speaking at a groundbreaking ceremony today, the Harare City Mayor, His Worship Councillor Herbert Gomba said, “Liquid Telecoms has done a good job…
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…
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)…
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…
UN allocates US$3m new funds for cholera response
The UN Resident Coordinator Mr Bishow Parajuli and the Minister of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing, Hon July Moyo yesterday signed USD 3 million allocation from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) in response to the Cholera outbreak. The CERF which will be implemented by UNICEF, WHO and WFP was also…
AHFoZ calls on RBZ to urgently allocate forex for healthcare products
The Association of Healthcare Funders of Zimbabwe has expressed concern that there is no mention of healthcare products in the list of strategic imports for which the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe says it has put in place $500 million facilities. It has urged the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe to urgently allocate foreign currency for the…
Nedbank funding support to improve Avenues Clinic service provision
By Munyaradzi Dhure Nedbank, a local banking giant, has partly funded the Avenues Clinic’s $10 million refurbishment project in a bid to provide quality healthcare to locals and foreigners. In his address at the ground-breaking ceremony held today in Harare, the Avenues Clinic Managing Director, Mr. Searchmore Chaparadza, said the upgrade was meant to enhance…
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…
Leadership Co-chairs for the 23rd International AIDS Conference announced
The International AIDS Society (IAS) today announced that Ms Cynthia Carey-Grant and Dr Monica Gandhi will serve as the Local Co-chairs for the 23rd International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2020). Ms Carey-Grant is a long-time women’s health advocate based in Oakland, and Dr Gandhi is an HIV researcher at the University of California, San Francisco. They…
Merck Foundation song “Life is Bigger” focuses on male infertility
Merck Foundation launches an empowering song “Life is Bigger” to raise awareness about male infertility and to Break the Stigma around Infertility in Africa by embracing a cultural shift through art The song has been written and sung by Tom Close, a famous singer from Rwanda; Merck Foundation continues its efforts to raises awareness on…
Diversifying from number of beneficiaries to knowledge mobilisation and use
By Charles Dhewa In what probably signifies a new approach to achieving socio-economic development, a few policy makers and development agencies in developing countries are beginning to move from measuring success through the number of beneficiaries. Instead, they are reluctantly shifting to their focus to how the so-called beneficiaries mobilise and use knowledge associated with…
Freelance journalist Conrad Gweru freed on bail
Freelance journalist Conrad Gweru was on Friday 28 September 2018 freed on bail after spending two days in detention when he was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct for allegedly taking photographs of Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers. Gweru was arrested on Wednesday 26 September 2018 by ZRP officers and charged with disorderly conduct as…
UNFPA, ZNFPC call for greater investment in Family Planning
In the week of commemorating World Contraceptive Day the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Government of Zimbabwe have called for greater investment in Family Planning to ensure access for all women and girls of reproductive age. World Contraceptive Day is commemorated each year on 26 September as a day to galvanise for action…
Absence of EU Heads of State at UN HML to end TB irks The Union
The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease expressed its disappointment at the almost total absence of European Heads of State attending the first ever United Nations High-Level Meeting on Tuberculosis in New York on Wednesday 26 September. “Ahead of the HLM we’ve seen tremendous leadership from Japan, sub-Saharan Africa and philanthropist Bill Gates in…
PLOS Medicine: Mobilising the Research Community for TB – The Time Is Now
Els Torreele, the Executive Director of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)’s Access Campaign, suggests ways world leaders can use this week’s first ever UN High-Level Meeting on tuberculosis on September 26 to discuss how improved research and development can be used to address the tuberculosis crisis. This week the United Nations will convene the first-ever UN…
Nutrition Africa Investor Forum to help raise finance for high-impact nutrition businesses in the continent
Nutrition Africa Investor Forum (NAIF) is a first-of-a-kind event, hosted by the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), in partnership with Royal DSM, the SUN Business Network (SBN) and African Business magazine, that aims to position nutrition as a promising new investment area. Over 200 delegates, including dealmakers, entrepreneurs and investors will meet at the…
NMB joins fight against cholera
NMB Bank on Sunday handed over 3 000 buckets, 3 000 units of Water Guard and 120 000 litres of water to the District Health Office in Glen View to help in the fight against cholera in this Harare suburb. The bank teamed up with the Harare City Health Department officials who addressed residents in a…
Netone is one with the community in fighting cholera
By Byron Mutingwende Leading mobile telephony company, NetOne has once again stamped its authority as an institution that moves in sync with the community by playing its part in the fight against cholera. In an interview with Spiked Online Media during a massive clean up campaign in Budiriro 5 that started at seven…
Young innovators to design solutions to improve education, training and empowerment
A new challenge calling on young innovators across Zimbabwe to design solutions that will improve education, skills development and training for young people, and empower them to take action on issues that affect them, was launched yesterday. Winning applicants will contribute to the success of Generation Unlimited, which is a new, ambitious partnership – launched at a…
IAS Members share key insights on TB and its links with HIV
IAS statement to global leaders Together we can prevent 2 million deaths by 2022 Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading killer of people living with HIV: it causes 40% of all HIV deaths worldwide. Every year, we lose almost half a million family members, friends and colleagues living with HIV to TB. But there is no…
IOM, UZ sign MOU for the cooperation agreement on diaspora skills transfer initiative
By Byron Mutingwende The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the University of Zimbabwe and the International Organisation for Migration seeks to develop and strengthening capacity for the University of Zimbabwe’s College of Health Sciences (UZCHS)’s s quest to deliver its mandate in research, teaching and service to the community. In his speech ,…
UN increases community outreach to end cholera
The United Nations in Zimbabwe in partnership with Classic 263 – Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation radio station – rolled-out yesterday a roadshow in Glenview 3, one of the epicentres of the Cholera outbreak as part of increasing community engagement to contain the cholera outbreak. Speaking on the side of the roadshow, UN Communications Specialist, Sirak…
Sekuru Banda joins the cholera fight
By Byron Mutingwende Renowned traditional healer Kamwelo Banda popularly known as Sekuru Banda has joined the fight against cholera and pledged support to those impacted by the pandemic. In a rare show of love and compassion, Sekuru Banda took time off his busy schedule where he often meets his legion of clients who…
Stop Cholera in Zimbabwe and what can be done to prevent it
It is unfortunate that in this 21st century we still witness the death of so many people as a result of Cholera. We are witnessing history repeat itself. In 2008 thousands of people died as a result of Cholera. In 2018 we are again witnessing the death of more people. A total of 30 people…
Africa50 Inaugurates its Headquarters in Casablanca
On Friday, the pan-African infrastructure investment platform, Africa50, inaugurated its headquarters in Casablanca, in the presence of Otman Ferdaous, Secretary of State for Investment at the Ministry of Industry, Investment, Trade, and Digital Economy, and Salaheddine Mezouar, President of the Confederation of Moroccan Enterprises and former Minister of Foreign Affairs. In his opening remarks,…
National Vendors Union of Zimbabwe (NAVUZ) seeks to decongest cities in 100 days
By Munyaradzi Dhure The National Vendors Union Zimbabwe (NAVUZ) is partnering other stakeholders in the quest to decongest cities in 100 days starting with Harare. Addressing stakeholders at Town Hose in harare on Friday 14 September 2018, NAVUZ Chairperson, Sten Zvorwadza said his organisation will start with a pilot project in Harare from tomorrow….
Cholera Alert – TMPC, ZINPA warn members against traditional treatment
By Miriam Zvomuya and Gideon Madzikatidze Cholera has to date killed more than 24 people with the government declaring a state of emergency to avert the disaster The Traditional Medical Practitioners Council (TMPC) and Zimbabwe National Practitioners Association (ZINPA) has called on all its members to withhold work following the outbreak of cholera. Prescribing traditional…
Albinism – there is a way, there is an answer
Albinism is just the skin of the colour and any discrimination of human beings against one another has no place in society. By Byron Mutingwende Having differences in the colour of the skin is never an impediment for achievement, said Joseph Makamba Busha, a businessman, philanthropist and politician. As guest speaker at…