Category: Fact Checking

To end AIDS, protect everyone’s human rights – UNAIDS

Henry Damisoni

By Mr Henry Damisoni The world has made enormous progress in reducing the impact of HIV over the last 15 years. Globally, a total of 30.7 million people—77% of those living with HIV—were on treatment in 2023, up from just 7.7 million in 2010. This has resulted in a dramatic decline in AIDS-related deaths, down by 51% over the same period. In Zimbabwe, 95% of the 1.3 million people living with HIV were on treatment in 2023. Treatment coverage increased by 40% from 55% in 2010. The country surpassed the…

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Facts About Vaccine Derived-Polio Virus Circulating In Zimbabwe

Michael Gwarisa

By Michael Gwarisa In November 2023, Zimbabwe’s environmental surveillance system picked a vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV) strain, circulating in the sewage system in Harare’s high density suburbs namely Budiriro, Mbare and Mufakose.  A similar variant was detected in a 10-year-old child from Sanyati District in Mashonaland, West Province. The child has since developed paralysis following the Polio infection. Two other children in Mbare have had the same strain detected in them despite the absence of paralysis developing in either of them. Over the past few days, the Ministry of…

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COVID-19 no longer a Public Health Emergency of International Concern……WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?

Michael Gwarisa

FOR the past three years, the world literally came to a halt at the back of a raging COVID-19 pandemic that claimed and infected millions of people. According data, globally, as of 7 May 2023, over 765 million confirmed cases and over 6.9 million deaths had been reported to the World Health Organisation (WHO). By Michael Gwarisa Compared to other pandemics that have been experienced in the history of public health, COVID-19 has the least fatalities. For example, HIV and AIDS known as the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), acquired immunodeficiency…

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Did Vice President Chiwenga say hiring health workers from Zimbabwe was illegal?

Michael Gwarisa

RECENTLY, South Africa Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) reported that Zimbabwe’s Minister of Health and Child Care (MoHCC), who is also the Vice President, Constantino Chiwenga had announced that hiring health workers from Zimbabwe was now illegal. The SABC reported on April 3, 2023 that “Zimbabwe’s Health Minister Constantino Chiwenga says government plans to enact law which will criminalize recruitment of health personnel from Zimbabwe by other foreign countries. #sabcnews.” Did the minister say it’s illegal to hire healthcare workers from Zimbabwe? Background The Vice President said this while officiating at the…

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