Day: April 17, 2024

Africa CDC Slams Mordena For Halting African Vaccine Plant

News Room

Africa CDC notes with disappointment that Moderna has put its plans to establish vaccine manufacturing in Kenya on hold. While we acknowledge that the need and demand for COVID-19 vaccines has indeed decreased significantly, both in Africa and globally, it is important that we reflect on the nuances of this. The Africa CDC recalls the considerable efforts of Africa to timely access vaccines as Member States of the Union considered vaccines as the most effective means in the pandemic response. Through its Heads of States and Government, the AU and…

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Health Ministry moots new nurse training recruitment policy

Kuda Pembere

By Kuda Pembere The new nursing training recruitment policy among other issues address the issue of recruitment modalities following the abandonment of e-recuitment, HealthTimes has learned. Zimbabwe abandoned the centralized online application system for nurses after the online approach had drawn harsh criticism from the public for preventing eligible local candidates from being hired by training institutes in their areas. The decision to change the procedure was made in response to an investigation that exposed a troubling pattern: a disproportionate number of trainee nurses were being hired from places that…

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Grassroot Soccer Inc, Pamumvuri team up against adolescent mental health issues

Kuda Pembere

By Kudakwashe Pembere Pamumvuri, a Zimbabwean private voluntary organization which focuses on mental health issues has been selected to implement a Grassroot Soccer Inc (GRS) initiative dubbed MindSkillz, which seeks to alleviate mental health challenges bedeviling adolescents in the country. The project will be piloted in Bulawayo and Harare metropolitan provinces targeting 3 750 adolescents. Speaking during the launch, GRS Partnerships Programs Manager Ms Happy Ncube said Pamumvuri is going to be their implementing partner in this project. The project is also being implemented in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa…

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Cimas MEDLABS Retools laboratories To Enhance Results Turnaround Time

Michael Gwarisa

THE country’s top provider of diagnostic and medical laboratory services, Cimas MEDLABS has embarked on a project to renovate and re-equip its laboratories to ensure that tests are offered onsite in a bid to provide timely results across the country. Cimas MEDLABS is a designated Health Institution by the Medical Laboratory and Clinical Scientists Association of Zimbabwe that provides several pathology tests including haematology, biochemistry, histology, microbiology, viral load and bone marrow aspirate to Cimas member and non-member patients referred by the primary healthcare clinics and private doctors. The Cimas…

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