Senior Doctors Declare Incapacitation
ZIMBABWE’S senior doctors have joined junior doctors in declaring incapacitation citing their remuneration is not at par with regional standards. By Kudakwashe Pembere With a month passing by since junior doctors’ industrial action, the senior doctors’ throwing weight behind their juniors will leave the state owned hospital void of any doctor. The Senior Hospital Doctors
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Speed Up Medical Aid Services Bill, ED Tells Parliament
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says parliamentarians should expedite the tabling of the Medical Aid Services Bill. By Kudakwashe Pembere He said this while presenting the State Of The Nation Address (SONA) and official opening of the second session of the Ninth Parliament on Tuesday. The Medical Aid Societies bill will pave way for the establishment of
Read MoreGo Further Partnership Reaches Over Half a Million HIV-Positive Women with Cervical Cancer Screening in its First Year
The United States’ PEPFAR program, the George W. Bush Institute, Merck and UNAIDS are aiming to end AIDS and cervical cancer in Sub-Saharan Africa within a generation through an innovative public-private partnership On the margins of the 2019 United Nations General Assembly, former President George W. Bush and Ambassador Deborah L. Birx announced that the
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Prominent Zim Health Journalist Dies In Namibia
PATIENCE Nyangove, a Zimbabwean born Journalist has succumbed to a brain infection in Namibia. Patience has been hospitalised at a Windhoek hospital over the past months after doctors detected a brain infection. Until the time of her demise she has been a senior journalist at The Confidente Newspaper in Namibia. A top-drawer reporter covering health,
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Bilharzia Causing Worm Increases Risk Of HIV Infection
SCHISTOSTOMIASIS, the worm that causes Bilharzia can increase the risk of infection. Article Originally Written by Felicia Wong Fresh water sources are a lifeline to so many people across Africa. And yet they can harbour parasitic worms that increase the risk of HIV for women and girls. Share “Have you heard of schistosomiasis or bilharzia?
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