Cimas Sets Stage for Inaugural @80 Media Awards in Bulawayo
By Staff Reporter Cimas Health Group will tonight host the inaugural Cimas @80 Media Awards at Cresta Churchill Hotel in Bulawayo, marking a major milestone in the organisation’s 80th anniversary celebrations. The awards, launched in September and supported by the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ), aim to honour outstanding health journalism that contributes to a well-informed
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Inside Binga’s Herbal Sex Boosters: The Man Behind the Popular Guchu Remedy
By Michael Gwarisa Deep in the heart of Binga, in the midst of thick forests and scorching heat, the name Siposami Chuma is synonymous with the word saviour in some circles owing to his mastery of herbs. These are not ordinary herbs but Guchu, a mixture of roots and plants ground together to form a powder
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Health Experts Warn WHO Against Full Tobacco Ban and Call for Balanced Regulation
By Munyaradzi Blessing Doma For decades, global public health experts have agreed on one thing: banning a dangerous substance rarely eliminates its use. It often pushes the trade underground, where governments lose visibility and control. Regulation, however, gives policymakers room to monitor, manage and gradually reduce harm. This tension now sits at the center of a
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WHO FCTC Secretariat’s Assumptions on Nicotine Alternatives Are Misguided
By Munyaradzi Blessing Doma While there is broad evidence that tobacco cessation is achievable through several approaches, including tobacco harm reduction, it remains unclear why the Secretariat of the World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) continues to insist that all nicotine products are the same or that they all pose equal
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Experts Criticize WHO for Ignoring Evidence on Safer Smoking Alternatives
By Munyaradzi Blessing Doma The Conference of the Parties (COP) of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) has been ignoring emerging scientific evidence on tobacco harm reduction. Experts say the organisation continues to enforce restrictions that are not fit for purpose, while global smoking rates remain high. Tobacco harm reduction refers
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The Right to Know: Why Access to Tobacco Harm Reduction Information Is a Matter of Human Rights
By HealthTimes When forty-seven-year-old Idai Moyo from Harare finally managed to quit smoking after two decades, it wasn’t because she suddenly found the willpower that had eluded her for years. It was because she discovered something she hadn’t known existed — a smoke-free nicotine alternative that allowed her to move away from cigarettes gradually, without withdrawal
Read MoreHow a Community Seed Bank is Helping Binga Villagers Beat Drought
By Michael Gwarisa in Binga Just like most parts of the country, Binga villages are preparing their land for the forthcoming 2025/26 agricultural season. The clanging of hoes against dry earth echoes across the fields as farmers race the sun to prepare their land. At one homestead, Vivian Saba greets us with a warm smile, accompanied
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Zimbabwe’s Top 10 Health Champions for 2025
As has become tradition at HealthTimes, every year we honour leaders in the healthcare sector who are making a difference and contributing significantly to Zimbabwe’s health system. This year, we are doing things differently. We have categorised the champions according to their sectors or areas of influence, focusing on innovation and the strategies that healthcare leaders in Zimbabwe
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Vilon Peptide: A Minimalist Bioregulator with Expansive Potential
Vilon, a synthetic dipeptide composed of lysine and glutamic acid (Lys-Glu), has emerged as a molecule of growing interest in the field of bioregulatory peptide research. Despite its minimal structure, Vilon is theorized to exert a wide range of biological supports, particularly in the domains of immunomodulation, gene expression regulation, and cellular aging. Originally developed
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Why Harm Reduction Matters More in Africa
By Munyaradzi Blessing Doma The African Tobacco Control Alliance (ACTA) defines Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR) as a public health strategy aimed at lowering the health risks to individuals and society associated with combustible tobacco products. This approach is based on the understanding that most harm linked to tobacco use comes from the chemicals released and inhaled when tobacco
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