Day: October 21, 2022

Village Health Workers complain of paltry allowances

Kuda Pembere

Community village health workers are appealing to be recognised in the National Budget given they are usually sidelined on payment issues much to their displeasure. By Kudakwashe Pembere Formerly known as village health workers, these frontline health workers complain they last got their paltry allowances which come with deductions in 2019. Their call comes at a time the Health and Child Care Ministry has not been receiving from the Treasury the 15 percent of the national budget as espoused in the Abuja declaration which Zimbabwe signed up to. “When we…

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Abortion conversation must recognize women’s bodily autonomy and integrity

Memory Kadau

By Memory Pamella Kadau The previous installments touched on the legal regime regulating abortion in Zimbabwe having previously established that abortion doesn’t pose a moral dilemma. If anything, abortion services are part of the basic health needs for tens of thousands of women each year in Zimbabwe. That the law proscribes safe abortion by choice, limiting it to exceptional cases of medical emergencies, rape and incest is an act of injustice which undermines this right. This article will look at the dimension of how existing abortion regulation undermines the fundamental…

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