China Considers Offering Attractive Incentives For Families To Have More Children As Birth Drops
A total of 17 Chinese government departments on Tuesday jointly released a guideline on support policies in finance, tax, housing, employment, education and other fields to create a fertility-friendly society and encourage families to have more children, as the country faces growing pressure from falling birth rates. Analysts said that it is rare to see
Read More130 million African girls and women today married as children
On the International Day of the African Child, UNICEF calls on African Union member states to accelerate efforts and to increase domestic resources to end child marriage and female genital mutilation Africa is home to 130 million child brides, both girls under the age of 18 who have already married and adult women who were
Read MoreNo Means No! Empowering Adolescent Girls To Ward-Off Sexual Violence Through Self-Defense
Tarisai Mhlanga (10), a Grade 6 pupil at Tafara Primary school in Chipinge says she wants to be a doctor when she grows up. However, with the increasing cases of Sexual Gender Based Violence (SGBV) in her community, she fears her dream might never come true. By Michael Gwarisa Though she is still very young,
Read MoreZimbabwe To Host 23rd International Congress On STIs
THE 23rd edition of the International Union against Sexually Transmitted Infections (IUSTI), will be held in Zimbabwe from September 4 t0 September 7, 2022, in the resort town of Victoria Falls.  By Michael Gwarisa The Congress will run under the theme, “Confronting Inequities in STI Prevention, Diagnostics and Care,” and will be graced by various
Read MoreFailure To Prioritize Midwives Welfare Leads To Negative Health Outcomes
The 5th of May was the International Midwives Day. In Zimbabwe there was very little celebration as the midwives are facing numerous challenges, especially around securing living wages. One of the publications in Zimbabwe reported that midwives are wallowing in poverty while they work under very difficult conditions. Midwives in Zimbabwe are facing many challenges
Read MoreRevamped Online Comprehensive Sexuality Education Teachers Course To Reach More Teachers
A new look online Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) course for teachers has been launched during a virtual meeting that was attended by governments officials, teachers from Zimbabwe, Malawi and Zambia as well as other stakeholders from across the East and Southern Africa (ESA) region. By Michael Gwarisa The CSE Online Course for Teachers is a
Read MoreOver 1 million child brides in Zim: UNICEF
MASHONALAND CENTRAL tops the list of provinces with the highest number of young girls married before 18 in Zimbabwe with Matebeleland South having the lowest. By Kudakwashe Pembere Mash Central accounted for over 50 percent of the girls married before 18 years according to a UNICEF latest report on Child Marriages. In the report, there
Read MoreHitting Three Birds with One Stone: Low Cost Boarding Facilities to Address Teen Pregnancies, Early Marriages and New HIV Infections in Chimanimani Adolescent Girls
HILDER Muwani* (16) is doing Form 3 at Mhakwe Secondary school in Chimanimani. Every day, she walks 30 kilometers to and from school. She at some point contemplated moving to a bush boarding or renting a room near the school just to cut on the distance, but her parents would have none of it. They
Read MoreZim Launches Pledge To End To Child Marriages
THE Ministry of Women Affairs, Community, Small and Medium Enterprises Development together with the United Nations (UN) in Zimbabwe and its agencies, UNICEF, UN Women and UNFPA convened in Harare to launch a pledge to end child marriage, amidst growing calls for increased women involvement to end child marriages in the country. By Michael Gwarisa
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