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Antimicrobial Resistance To NTDs Medicines On the Increase

Michael Gwarisa

THE World Health Organisation (WHO) is currently working on developing alternative or second-line treatments, or combination therapies of existing Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) medicines, following indications that some NTDs were developing resistance to the different antimicrobials used to treat Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), a new report has announced. By Michael Gwarisa The emergence of treatment

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Multi-stakeholder approach key in NTD elimination

Michael Gwarisa

By Dr Kennedy Mubaiwa, Higherlife Foundation CEO Tadiwa, an 11-year-old Grade six student in rural Zimbabwe has missed school for more than a week. She has a distended stomach, nausea, pain, and dizziness. Tadiwa is well known for playing in a nearby stream, the only water source for her village. Today Tadiwa visited the clinic,

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Avenues Clinic General Manager, Heath Dhana Resigns

Michael Gwarisa

RENOWNED hotelier, Heath Dhana who had taken over the reins at Avenues Clinic as the General Manager, has since quit to pursue other interest in the Hospitality sector. By Michael Gwarisa Dhana made his first attempt in the health fraternity at Avenues Clinic during the COVID-19 era, a period when the tourism and hospitality sector

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