October 20, 2021 - HealthTimes

Medical Investments Limited opens “The Avenues Clinic Laboratory”

October 20, 2021October 20, 2021 Healthtimes

Medical Investments Limited (MIL) has introduced a new strategic business unit, The Avenues Clinic Laboratory. The laboratory has been strategically set up to complement all the services offered under the MIL portfolio as well as to support healthcare services at large. The laboratory is headed by our General Manager, Lerato Natasha Sebata – a qualified Clinical Scientist with extensive experience in Medical Microbiology. The aim of the laboratory is to offer expediency in treatment through timely diagnostic turnaround times and reliable clinical results. Deliberately set up in the upper Avenues…

MSF Clinical Trial Reports That New Shorter Treatment Regimen Cured 89% Of Patients With Rifampin-Resistant TB

October 20, 2021 Michael Gwarisa

ON the 2nd day of the 52nd Union World Conference on Lung Health (WCOLH) researchers presented data from a study that used genome sequencing to effectively predict strains of tuberculosis susceptible to antibiotics that were likely to develop drug resistance. By Michael Gwarisa The researchers looked at drug susceptible bacteria and aimed to identify mutations that would increase the probability of a bacteria becoming resistant in the future. The mutations confer “pre-resistance”. Monitoring these mutations could prevent the amplification of drug resistance in the population by targeting those bacteria more…

Football champion Didier Drogba appointed WHO Ambassador for Sports and Health

October 20, 2021 Michael Gwarisa

FOOTBALL legend Didier Drogba was today announced as the World Health Organization’s Goodwill Ambassador for Sport and Health. Drogba, from Côte d’Ivoire, will support WHO to promote the Organization’s guidance on the benefits of physical activity and other healthy lifestyles, and highlight the value of sports, particularly for youth. HealthTimes Reporter Mr Drogba, well known for his football career at Chelsea and as a two-time African Footballer of the Year (2006 and 2009), has a long track record of participating in various health campaigns such as healthy lifestyles, anti-malaria and HIV…

“Realizing the right to reproductive health and the future starts with sexual education

October 20, 2021 Michael Gwarisa

“I am 18 years old, and I am already thinking about getting married. In our area, girls get married early. I’m afraid that with my positive HIV status I won’t be able to find a boyfriend, which means I won’t have a family,” said Sayora Akmatova (not her real name), a participant of a training on sexuality education for adolescents living with HIV, held in Osh, Kyrgyzstan. More than 60 young people living with HIV and their parents from different regions of Kyrgyzstan recently participated in a series of trainings for…

Manana Hospital Appeals For Assistance To Restore Destroyed Roof

October 20, 2021 Michael Gwarisa

MANANA Hospital, the only referral hospital in Gwanda South is appealing for financial assistance to the tune of US$40000 to have its roof which was blown away by heavy winds repaired. HealthTimes Reporter In a letter, the hospital’s secretariat and board said they were seeking donations in cash and in kind towards refurbishment of the Hospital which had its roof blown away away on October, 3 2021. “Manama Mission Hospital is the only major referral hospital in Gwanda South and is under the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe (ELCZ). According…