Day: June 19, 2023

Urban Household Food Insecurity Declines In Zimbabwe

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A cocktail of measures and strategies being implemented in Zimbabwe have resulted in positive outcomes to the urban households’ food security situation, the latest Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZIMVAC) survey has projected. By Staff Reporter  According to the  survey, food insecurity levels for urban areas are projected to have significantly decreased from 42 percent reported in 2020 to 29 percent in 2023. Midlands (40 percent) had the highest proportion of households projected to be food insecure. Matabeleland South (22 percent) and Mashonaland Central (25 percent) had the least proportion of…

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A Well-Resourced Health System Essential For Zimbabwe to Attain Reproductive Justice

Edinah Masiyiwa

By Edinah Masiyiwa, Executive Director Women’s Action Group Attending a recent workshop organized by the Community Working Group on Health on “reproductive justice” reminded me how much the core values of reproductive justice are being violated in Zimbabwe and how much we need to protect girls and young women from injustice. The term reproductive justice has a history in feminist ideology and has three core values: the right to have a child, the right to not have a child, and the right to parent a child or children in safe…

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New opportunities to reduce tobacco-related death and disease must not be wasted – harm reduction is the focus at the Global Forum on Nicotine in Warsaw

Michael Gwarisa

● 10th edition of Global Forum on Nicotine taking place in Polish capital next week; ● Sessions focus on the opportunities and challenges of tobacco harm reduction, including the scientific evidence around safer nicotine products and their appropriate regulation; ● 70 international experts, including people who have quit smoking through switching to safer nicotine products, will address hundreds of delegates from over 80 countries; ● Open to all, the conference is also streaming selected sessions online free, with simultaneous Spanish and Russian translations. The tenth annual Global Forum on Nicotine…

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Birth control pills may increase the risk of depression

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Depression is one of the most common mental illnesses and can have several debilitating symptoms. Researchers are still learning what factors contribute to depression risk. A recent study found that oral contraceptives may increase depression risk among adolescent and adult women, particularly in the first two years of use. By Jessica Norris on June 17, 2023 — Fact checked by Alexandra Sanfins, Ph.D. Research is ongoing about what factors influence a person’s risk for depression. Often depression risk involves a combination of internal and external factors. Modifying certain risk factors…

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CIRAD sets up Zoonotic diseases lab for Zim

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The French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development, (CIRAD) recently launched a €1million (USD1,084,070) state of the art biometric laboratory at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) for researching on animal and zoonotic diseases. By Staff Reporter Speaking to the press after the launch, CIRAD Zimbabwe CEO, Dr Mathieu Bourgarel said he was proud that the Zimbabwean lab mirrors CIRAD’s lab in France. The biometric platform was a long term project. The PACMAN project and the CAZCOM project put in more than €1million in setting up the equipment and renovating the…

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