Month: November 2017

Tobacco Smoking Increases In Teenagers

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…Experts Call For New Technologies To Fight Tobacco Harm… By Michael Gwarisa from Nairobi, Kenya AFRICA is recording a massive increase in cases of child smokers with children between the ages of 13 and 15 being the biggest victims owing to peer pressure as well as the cheap pricing of cigarettes in most  African markets. The call comes amidst indications of increased cases on Child smokers in Africa with high  cases having been recorded in West Africa, East and other some parts Southern Parts of Africa. Speaking during a Tobacco…

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Survival against all odds-The story of Siphiwe Sindisi

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Around the year 2003, the HIV epidemic was a disease of unimaginable proportions both in trying to contain it and being diagnosed with it. Being infected with the disease meant a condemnation to a life of isolation as the society as well shunned those who had the disease. That was the very time, the late Siphiwe Sindisi, a registered general nurse based in Mt Darwin learnt of her HIV positive status when her husband died of the same disease. This publication met up with Siphiwe, some weeks before her demise,…

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Musiiwa Cause of Death Yet To Be Established

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SOURCE NEWSDAY (Vanessa Gonye) GOVERNMENT is yet to establish the late Health deputy minister Aldrin Musiiwa cause of death, minister David Parirenyatwa said yesterday. “We have not been told the postmortem results, but i can confirm the body is still in Dublin. We are hopeful of communication from that side later on in the day,” he said. [pullquote]An official in the ministry also said: “We had a series of meetings today (yesterday), but nothing in line with the postmortem was communicated.”[/pullquote] Mussiwa (51) collapsed and died in Dublin, Ireland on…

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HIV/AIDS Mortality Still High Despite Prevention Efforts- MSF

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Staff Reporter Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says despite the significant progress that has been made in preventing HIV infection,  South Africa is still struggling to reduce HIV/AIDS mortality in the country. (MSF) Medical Coordinator for South Africa, Dr. Amir Shroufi said, “Despite significantly improved access to ARVs, major challenges remain to reduce HIV/AIDS mortality in South Africa from an unacceptably high 180,000 deaths a year [1]. In order to reach the 40% of people living with HIV who still have not started ARVs, scaling up public access to new tools such…

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Deputy Minister Of Health Musiiwa Dies

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By Michael Gwarisa HEALTH and Childcare Deputy Minister, Mr Aldrin Musiiwa has died. According to the Ministry of Health, Mr Musiiwa died while on duty in Dublin yesterday morning. “We have sad news,, the deputy Minister Mr Musiiwa who had gone to Dublin for a meeting with other MoHCC officials died yesterday morning while still in Dublin. “We are going and the process of making arrangements to have his body return home. We will keep you informed of developments. We will provide details of local arrangements later in the morning.…

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Specific laws needed to combat healthcare fraud

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 By HealthTimes Reporter Representatives of medical aid societies, pharmacists, hospitals, doctors, laboratories, the legal sector and other stakeholders from across the country on Thursday lamented the lack of specific laws to deal with healthcare fraud when they came together at the Healthcare Fraud Indaba in Harare. In discussions and presentations, it was noted that medical aid societies were incurring huge losses through fraud. There was general agreement on the need to address this problem. The Healthcare Fraud Indaba, which began on Thursday and continued on Friday, was initiated by the…

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Illegal Sex Enhancing Drugs Flood Zim- CID

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By Michael Gwarisa ZIMBABWE is under siege from Sex Enhancing drugs which are finding their way into  the country through porous entry points, a Criminal Investigation Department (CID) drug section officer Majaha Mukwananzi has said. He said this during the ongoing Healthcare Fraud Indaba being hosted by the Association of Healthcare Funders of Zimbabwe (AHfoZ). “Sex enhances are becoming one of the major challenges in Zimbabwe and abuse of the these drugs has just gone beyond normal. “The drugs are coming in different forms, they can be in liquid form,…

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USAID/PSZ Prevents Maternal and child deaths In Zimbabwe

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By Michael Gwarisa THE United States government’s partnership with Population Services Zimbabwe (PSZ) has managed to avert not less than 814 maternal and 3,800 child deaths over the past five years. At an event marking the five year partnership between the organisations which celebrated five years of improving access to voluntary family planning information and services to poor undeserving populations in Zimbabwe, USAID Zimbabwe Acting Deputy Mission Director, Julie Nenon said, “…the US is proud to increase availability of diverse family planning options for Zimbabweans. “Enabling couples and individuals to…

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CIMAS Card Loaning Offenders Face Imprisonment

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By Michael Gwarisa ZIMBABWE’S second largest Medical Aid company, CIMAS has warned its subscribers to stop lending their CIMAS Card to relatives and friends following increased cases of card loaning for various reasons chief among them being the need to escape high medical services costs at both private and public health institutions. The development comes in the wake of increased cases of individuals who lend out their CIMAS cards to individuals who are not subscribers to the company’s medical aid services. In a statement, CIMAS spoke strongly against the move and…

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