Day: January 26, 2024

UNICEF donates cholera medicine to Zim Health Ministry

Kuda Pembere

By Kuda Pembere The Ministry of Health and Child Care has received US$265 000 worth of cholera treatment medicines and equipment from Unicef to help Zimbabwe in the containment of the outbreak. Speaking at the handover ceremony at NatPharm Warehouse in Harare on Friday, the Health and Child Care Minister Dr Douglas Mombeshora said it was disconcerting to find the case fatality rate still over 2 percent. And what you have given us today is quite substantial and will go a long way in helping us combat the cholera epidemic.…

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Zim among highly burdened AMR African countries with National Action Plans

Kuda Pembere

By Kuda Pembere With Zimbabwe drafting its second National Action Plan to reduce Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), it is among some African countries that is still battling high AMR, a study says. Compared to European countries with AMR national action plans, despite a display of commitment to ameliorate AMR issues, African countries are still struggling with the high burden. A study published in The Lancet titled ‘The burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in the WHO African region in 2019: a cross-country systematic analysis’, noted that implementation of these policies was the…

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Save The Children, IOM, FST In Partnership to Boost Uptake of SRHR and HIV Services In Zimbabwe’s Migration Corridors

Michael Gwarisa

By Michael Gwarisa A tripartite partnership that includes the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Save the Children and Family Support Trust (FST), has been formed in a bid to promote the uptake of Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), HIV services as well as reduce the incidence of sexual exploitation of young people, migrants and individuals living in migration-affected communities. The initiative dubbed SRHR –HIV Knows No Boarders (KNB) project is being implemented in Zimbabwe’s Beitbridge district. The project will run from 2024 to 2026 and is set to reach…

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