Zim Lauded For TB Response Innovations
AN official from The Challenge TB headquarters in The Hague has commended Zimbabwe’s progress in fighting TB through its various innovations. By Kudakwashe Pembere Deputy Project Director Challenge TB at KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation Dr Emmy van der Grinten during the CHALLENGE TB Close Out Ceremony said the country has appealing innovations which can be replicated
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Coronavirus: Scientists race to develop a vaccine
BBC , San Diego (January 30, 2020) A deadly new virus. Thousands of people infected. No cure. No vaccine. We’ve been here many times before. In the past five years alone, the world has faced outbreaks of Ebola, Zika, another coronavirus called Mers (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome), and now the virus simply known as “2019-nCoV”.
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END Fund Launches Deworming Innovation Fund in Zimbabwe
HARARE, ZIMBABWE, (January 30, 2020) -In recognition of the first-ever World NTD Day, the END Fund is bringing together private and public sector stakeholders to imagine a world free from diseases caused by parasitic worms that have held back human progress for millennia. Today, the END Fund announces its Audacious project – the Deworming Innovation
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Government Medicines Siphoned To Uzumba Surgery
AT a time when rural folk find their health facilities void of medicines it has been discovered they are finding their way at surgeries and unlicensed pharmacies. By Kudakwashe Pembere Medicines stolen from Government health facilities have for a while been finding their way to surgeries and facilities in Uzumba Maramba Pfungwe without dispensing licenses,
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