Day: January 17, 2024

230 000 Zimbabweans to benefit from USAID, WFP 2024 lean season assistance

Kuda Pembere

By Kuda Pembere About 230 000 Zimbabweans are set to benefit from the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) US$11.3 million food support to cushion against the January to March 2024 lean season. The World Food Programme (WFP) will be coordinating the distribution of this assistance which comes at the nick of time when the country is also enduring the El Nino situation.This lean season assistance is part of the collective efforts of the national Food Deficit Mitigation Programme in partnership with the Ministry of Public Service, Labour and…

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362 Million Adults Use Smokeless Tobacco-WHO Report

Michael Gwarisa

By Michael Gwarisa Latest data on the prevalence of smokeless tobacco use and several users aged 15 years and older from 89 countries between 2012 and 2022 shows a 6.3 percent – 9.0 percent prevalence among males and 3.5% among females. Smokeless tobacco is a tobacco product that is used by means other than smoking. Their use involves chewing, sniffing, or placing the product between gum and the cheek or lip. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) global report on trends in the prevalence of tobacco use 2000–2030, the…

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