Health
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WHO, multilateral development banks launch Climate Health Fund
Own Correspondent Paris, France – In a landmark development aimed at investing in and strengthening essential, climate, and crisis-resilient primary health care (PHC) services in the global south, three multilateral development banks have joined with WHO to launch a new Health Investment Platform. The Platform launched during the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact…
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Aron Vico, Waverley Blankets And Plastic Boss Acquitted Of Fraud
Writes Desire Tshuma Waverly Blankets and Plastics boss, Mr Aron Vico has been acquitted of fraud charges which two aunts, Amanda Berkowitz and Belynda Halfon had accused him of, over the ownership of the company. Harare regional magistrate Taurai Manuwere upheld an application for exception and acquitted Vico of the fraud charges that his aunts…
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Food safety risks in developing countries’ informal sector tackled in new report
The report was produced by Spencer Henson, Steven Jaffee, and Shuo Wang More sticks, fewer carrots: New directions for tackling food safety risks Key messages Despite ongoing structural changes, small-scale processors, grocers, market vendors, and food service operators dominate the food systems of most low- and lower-middle-income countries; Unsafe food is widespread in informal food…
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Science cafe deepens journalists’ understanding of health issues
Trained and knowledgeable health journalists are better placed to accurately report on health issues and disseminate vital information to the public, a science cafe held for media practitioners has established. In his remarks during the media interface organised by the World Health Organization (WHO) and Health Communicators’ Forum, the WHO Representative to Zimbabwe, Professor Jean…
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Rural Development Agency hailed for water provision in Zvimba North
By Elvis Dumba Zvimba – Residents in Zvimba North Constituency have hailed the Rural Infrastructure Development Agency for ensuring the communities have easy access to safe and clean water. Whilst some parts of Zvimba District are being ravaged by Cholera, people in Zvimba North Constituency have welcomed efforts by their local legislator, Marian Chombo, who…
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Religious sects shun health services as cholera spreads in Zvimba
By Elvis Dumba Zvimba – Cholera continues to wreak havoc in various communities with religious sects hampering efforts in fighting the killer disease through their refusal to seek health services. In Chirau, Zvimba District, at least two people have succumbed to the disease that has forced the health ministry to set up a cholera camp…
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Community Water Alliance distributes non-food items to combat cholera in Harare
Community Water Alliance as a partner of Oxfam has prepositioned Non-Food Items within affected suburbs in Harare. Non-Food Items will help in improving household hygiene in Kuwadzana, Glen View, Budiriro, and Dzivarasekwa. This intervention is one component of our efforts to fight cholera in Harare. Community Water Alliance is an implementing partner of Oxfam. Oxfam…
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Jasen Mphepo Little Theatre play spotlights Nakba, a genocide on Palestinian people
The play showcased at Jasen Mphepo Little Theatre last night titled ‘Chindunduma’ and directed by Tafadzwa Bob Mutumbi coincided with the commemoration of the 75th year of the Nakba, the catastrophe of ethnic cleansing, dispossession, dispersal, dehumanization, and denial of the inalienable rights for the Palestinian people. In 1948, Palestinians witnessed the traumatic loss of…
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MSF: Access to HIV tests uncertain as companies stop production
MSF calls on Abbott and BD to ensure an adequate supply of CD4 tests and equipment People’s access to critical HIV tests is under threat because US diagnostics corporations Abbott Laboratories and Becton Dickinson (BD) have decided to stop making equipment to run point-of-care CD4 tests, said the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins…
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MSF endorses USA’s Pharmaceutical Research Transparency Act
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A new bill, the Pharmaceutical Research Transparency Act, was introduced yesterday in both the US House and Senate. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) endorses this bill as it would give people, governments, and treatment providers like MSF more leverage to negotiate fair drug prices. Currently, pharma doesn’t have to disclose how much they spend on R&D to bring new…
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152 million babies born preterm in the last decade
Of every 10 babies born, 1 is preterm – and every 40 seconds, 1 of those babies dies Preterm birth rates have not changed in the past decade in any region of the world The impacts of conflict, climate change, COVID-19 are increasing risks for women and babies everywhere Action is needed urgently to improve…
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MSF: Gilead must do more to make lifesaving drug widely available for people with HIV
As Gilead Sciences held its annual stockholders’ meeting yesterday, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) called on the US pharmaceutical corporation to finally fulfill its 2018 promise and ensure that the lifesaving drug liposomal amphotericin B (L-AmB, marketed as Ambisome) is more widely available for people with HIV who also…
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CWGH on Workers’ Day: Government must reward health workers
As the World celebrates Workers’ Day today, the Community Working Group on Health (CWGH) is calling upon the government to remunerate the health workers well and improve their working conditions to curb the current brain drain that has quickened the collapse of the sector. “Let us also make sure that health workers are provided with…
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MSF: J&J must stop blocking generic versions of lifesaving TB drug
J&J’s patent monopoly continues to keep key TB drugs out of reach Johnson & Johnson (J&J) must stop trying to extend its monopoly on tuberculosis (TB) drug bedaquiline in all countries with a high burden of TB, said the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) ahead of J&J’s annual shareholders’ meeting…
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Chiyangwa facilitates upgrade of Father O’hea Mission Hospital to General Hospital
By Elvis Dumba Kutama – Zvimba South Constituency legislator, Dr. Philip Chiyangwa has facilitated the upgrade of formerly Catholic Bishops run Father O’hea Mission Hospital to a general hospital. The 120-bed mission hospital, which was one of the best hospitals in Zvimba District and was the first institution to provide HIV treatment services that included…
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Invest more domestic funding in malaria prevention: CWGH urges government
As the world celebrates World Malaria Day on 25 April 2023! The Community Working Group on Health (CWGH) is calling on the government to invest more domestic funding in malaria prevention, diagnosis and treatment supported by strengthened community-driven awareness initiatives to stop the current malaria-related illnesses and deaths. In recent years, Zimbabwe has been experiencing…
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Adam Molai Foundation Health Awareness Events set for Marondera
The Adam Molai Foundation (AMF) will hold Health and Wellness Days in Marondera on Wednesday, 26th of April, and Thursday, 27th of April 2023. The events, which will take place at Cherutombo North (Pagomo) and Marondera East (Yellow City) Seventh Day Adventist churches respectively, aim to improve attendees’ physical and mental well-being. The Health and…
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Machakaire takes fight against drug abuse to grassroots
Zanu PF Secretary for Youth Affairs Honourable Tino Machakaire is tackling drug and substance abuse at the grassroots assisting communities to desist from such practices, taking a cue from President Mnangagwa. Of late, President Mnangagwa has been compelling the youth to desist from drug and substance abuse saying Government will soon review the law on…
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President hails strengthening of health sector through public-private partnerships
By Elvis Dumba Mhondoro – President Emmerson Mnangagwa has hailed the public-private partnerships for strengthening the country’s health sector. He said this in Mhondoro, where he officially commissioned Zimplats Mine’s Mubaira Hospital Project. President Mnangagwa said the government is committed to scaling up responses towards quality health services provision in the country. “This commissioning of…
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Zambia, Rwanda sign trendsetting agreements with Jakaya Kikwete Cardiac Institute
The historic agreements initiated by Israel based non-profit organization Save a Child’s Heart, will provide lifesaving medical care to thousands of children in Sub-Saharan Africa suffering from congenital heart defects while facilitating sharing of medical skills and knowledge among medical centers within the three countries For the first time in history, the Zambian National Heart…
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SA-based Prophet Mellontik Endorses ‘Pasi neGuka’ Singer
Renowned South African-based Zimbabwean Prophet Mellontik Orasi Sos has lauded Pasi neGuka hitmaker Craig Zonke for speaking against drug and substance abuse. In a video that has since gone viral, the Gutu-born cleric poured his heart on the drug abuse before heaping praise on gospel rapper, Craig Zonke, for taking a bold stance to condemn…