Day: May 2, 2023

SHOCKING: PSMAS Loses US$60 Million In Contributors Funds To In-house Corruption

Michael Gwarisa

FINDINGS from a Premier Service Medical Society (PSMAS) audit have revealed gross embezzlement and mismanagement of contributors’ funds by the company’s top management, the board, health service providers and the disorganization’s affiliates. By Michael Gwarisa In 2022, the registrar of Medical Aid Societies ordered a forensic audit into PSMAS, to find out if the medical aid society was not abusing funds by engaging in non-core business. Cases in point include investment in micro-finance, buying and selling of gold, extending society beyond the borders, and creating additional institutions that draw funds…

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Teen Pregnancies Are Soaring. Is Revamping Sex Education the Answer?

GLOBAL PRESS ARTICLES

BIKITA, ZIMBABWE — When Delight Ziwacha was 16, she didn’t know one could get pregnant after having unprotected sex only once. A friend told her that it had to happen multiple times. So, after experimenting with alcohol during a high school soccer tournament, she had unprotected sex with her 17-year-old boyfriend. A month and a half later, she found out she was pregnant. By Evidence Chenjerai Senior Reporter “It only happened that one time,” she says. Ziwacha, now 19, doesn’t remember ever receiving any sex education in school. The little…

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