Day: November 8, 2023

Zim updates TB, Leprosy Guidelines

Healthtimes

The Ministry of Health and Child Care has released its updated Tuberculosis and leprosy management guidelines which comes with latest guidance on new diagnostics and shorter treatment regimens for TB. By Staff Reporter In this sixth edition, the Health and Child Care Ministry Permanent Secretary Dr Aspect Maunganidze said the pervious edition was done in 2016. “The focus of TB prevention, care and control is to detect all TB cases early, particularly the bacteriologically positive cases, and provide them with effective treatment in a patient-centred manner, so as to reduce…

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Health Ministry pledges support to CODEX activities

Kuda Pembere

The Zimbabwean government is committed proffer high level support as well as having national CODEX activities included in the national budget, a senior health and childcare ministry official said last Wednesday. By Kuda Pembere This was said at the CODEX Trust Fund 2 inception workshop by the Permanent Secretary in the Health and Childcare Ministry Dr Aspect Maunganidze in a speech read on his behalf by Government Analyst Laboratory Director Mr Livingstone Masiyambiri. Zimbabwe successfully applied for the CTF2 in 2021, and preparations have been underway to initiate its implementation.…

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One Health Reporting: Internews is recognized for its work with journalists

Healthtimes

By InterNews On October 14th, 2023 the Internews Health Journalism Network (HJN) received the prestigious One Health Award for its contribution to empowering journalists around the world with the tools and knowledge to cover health and science with a One Health multidisciplinary lens. The award, launched in 2022 by The Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise (IZS) in Italy, is a deliberate effort to mainstream One Health in the public discourse, and to emphasize that human health is intimately connected to animal health and to the health of our…

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