Zimbabwe has become one of the first countries in the East and Southern Africa Region to qualify for Match Funding through the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Supplies Partnership after procuring contraceptives worth $1,5 million United States Dollars from domestic resources. This is a key achievement for the country’s efforts to support access to quality assured reproductive health and quality family planning commodities. The UNFPA Supplies Partnership 2021–2030 represents a new decade of commitment to advancing family planning and maternal health and accelerating progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. Launched…
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Zimbabwe’s Pharmaceutical Industry On Chokehold
High Compliance and regulatory risk, coupled with steep production costs, unending power cuts, and import-related costs for pharmaceutical products and raw materials, have stifled growth in the local pharmaceutical manufacturing and retail sector, Industry players have said. By Michael Gwarisa The high costs of doing business have had a ripple effect on the consumers as the cost of pharmaceutical products locally is beyond the reach of many and in some cases, has led to drug stock-outs as operators struggle to produce and procure pharmaceutical products from source markets. Speaking at…
Read MoreZimbabwean Doctor Amongst The Team Designing the Gavi Hepatitis B Birth Dose Vaccine Programme
Renowned Zimbabwean Medical Doctor, Simbarashe Mabaya who is now stationed in Geneva at the Gavi Vaccine Alliance Headquarters, is part of the team that is designing a programme for the delivery of a vaccine to prevent mother-to-child transmission of the Hepatitis B virus in 55 Gavi- eligible countries across the globe. By Michael Gwarisa The Hepatitis B Birth dose vaccine programme is a new addition to the portfolio of vaccines support by Gavi. Gavi has been supporting the delivery of the Hepatitis B vaccine primary course excluding the birth dose…
Read More#JUSTIN: Mutare Doctor Dies In Traffic Accident
Dr Mthabisi Nembaware was on Friday involved in a road traffic accident on his way from a rural hospital in Hauna where he was saving lives. By Staff Reporter According to a post by Zimbabwe’s leading investigative Journalist Hopewell Chin’ono who says to have spoken a number of doctors , the car in which he was a passenger had a burst tyre resulting in this tragic accident. He severe Traumatic Brain Injury and was stabilised at Mutare Hospital. But unfortunately the hospital doesn’t have a functional ICU unit or a…
Read MoreZAOGA’s Pastor Gandawa Speaks On Four Decades Journey With Infertility
The general assumption is that men and women of the cloth are immune to certain life’s challenges and upheavals. Well, that is not the case. No one is immune to problems, especially health problems such as infertility. Infertility is not a respecter of men and can affect anyone at any given time regardless of one’s social status, race, culture or creed. By Nthokozo Gudu Since the biblical old testament days, women with infertility or those who failed to bear children were stigmatized against and labelled barren and society looked down…
Read MoreZimbabwe Won’t Meet 2030 ENAP Target Of Reducing Stillbirths To Below 12 Per 1000-Report
Zimbabwe is among the Seven countries in the SADC region that might fail to meet the Every New-born Action Plan Targets (ENAP) target of reducing the prevalence of stillbirths to less than 12 per 1,000 births. By Michael Gwarisa According to a Report of the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, titled A Neglected Tragedy The Global Burden of Stillbirth, about half of all stillbirths occur in six countries namely India, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Nigeria, China, Pakistan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and with current trends, more than…
Read More630,000 People Died From AIDS-related Illnesses In 2022-Global Fund
Even though HIV programs registered strong recoveries from the impact of COVID-19 in 2022, the number of people who continue to die from AIDS-related illnesses every year threatens to derail efforts to end AIDS by 2030. By Michael Gwarisa This was revealed by the Global Fund 2022 Results report which indicates that AIDS continues to be a major public health threat, with at least one person dying from an AIDS-related cause every minute. The disease has killed 40.4 million people to date. HIV continues to affect every region of the…
Read MoreLeprosy Resurgence in Zimbabwe…Government calls for more funding to control biblical disease
The Ministry of Health’s National Tuberculosis (TB) and Leprosy Control Unit has appealed for more financial resources to capacitate healthcare workers and health systems to detect and prevent the spread of Leprosy across the country. By Michael Gwarisa The re-emergence of Leprosy in Zimbabwe was first made aware to the media and other attendees of the 13th ECHO Session virtual meeting in 2022, where it was revealed that only 12 cases had been reported in Matabeleland North from 2016 to 2021. Responding to a community member in Mutare during the…
Read MoreZimbabwe to roll-out fourth round Polio Vaccination
The Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC) and its partners will be rolling out the fourth round of Polio Vaccination from 10 to 13 October 2023 across the country’s 10 provinces. By Staff Reporter The move follows the discovery of Cases of Poliomyelitis disease that were detected among children in countries neighboring Zimbabwe in 2022. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), children under 5 years of age in Zimbabwe remain at high risk of getting this disease. According to the Ministry of Health E Programme on Immunisation (EPI),…
Read MoreNew Health Minister Hits the Ground Running, Promises To Prioritize Healthcare Skills Retention
Newly appointed Health and Childcare Minister, Dr Douglas Mombeshora has commenced consultations with stakeholders in the healthcare sector to get their feedback and expectations with the aim of reviving the country’s health sector. By Michael Gwarisa Top on his priority list is the revival of the country’s healthcare sector through retaining skilled health personnel as well as improving the living and working conditions for workers. In an interview with HealthTimes on the side-lines of the ICASA Marathon Meeting in Harare, Dr. Mombeshora said while the issue of skills flight is…
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