Climate Change Is No Longer Just an Environmental Issue — It’s a Health, Development and Social Justice Crisis
By Tanaka Musungwini BSc Honours Social Work Student (4th Year), Women’s University in Africa Introduction and background Climate change is no longer a distant environmental issue discussed only by scientists and policymakers. It is now a lived reality affecting health, livelihoods, food security, water access, education, mental wellbeing, social protection and community resilience. For Zimbabwe
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Is your child talking to someone you don’t know?
Abigail T.S Mudokwani If you have a teenager at home, this scene may feel familiar. They are in their room, door slightly closed. The phone is in their hand. They smile, maybe even laugh quietly. You call out, “Uri kuita sei?” or “What are you up to?” “Nothing,” they answer. And life moves on. But
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Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in DRC and Uganda – where are the vaccines?
Published First on https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/ LSHTM Vaccine Centre Co-Director Dr Muhammed Afolabi discusses the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak, the challenges of developing a vaccine against it and how to prepare for future outbreaks. On 17 May 2026 the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak of Ebola disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda
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The Mental Health Toll of Forced Pregnancy in Child Survivors of Rape
By Maceline M. Mukwamba In Zimbabwe and across many parts of the world, a quiet crisis continues to unfold behind closed doors, within families, schools, and communities. It is the story of children, girls often between the ages of 10 and 17, who survive rape only to face a second, prolonged trauma of being forced
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Beyond IPEC vs Ministry of Health: Rethinking Medical aid regulation in Zimbabwe through an Independent Health-focused body
By Enock Musungwini, MPH; MBA The recent article published by the Association of Healthcare Funders of Zimbabwe titled “Healthcare funders push back, warn 80% of Private Healthcare funding at risk in IPEC Takeover” raises important and timely concerns about the future of medical aid regulation in Zimbabwe. The sector, valued at nearly US$400 million annually,
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Zimbabwe’s abortion debate is asking the wrong questions
By Memory Pamella Kadau Zimbabwe’s abortion conversation remains trapped in the wrong questions. Why are we still debating whether the procedure should be allowed when the law (ToP) already makes provision for it? And why, under a system that claims to protect women, are they still dying from unsafe procedures, while young girls are forced
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Defending the Zimbabwe Gender Commission: A National Development Strategy 2 (NDS-2) Perspective
By: Mercy Jaravani In Zimbabwe, gender equality is not merely an aspiration or a human rights issue. It is a principle and value upon which Zimbabwe is founded, as provided under Section 3 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe. Embedding gender equality as a constitutional principle is critical, as it propels the nation toward a more
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Making Child Protection Services More Child-Friendly in Zimbabwe
Tanaka Musungwini Child protection systems are designed to safeguard children from abuse, neglect, exploitation, and violence. In Zimbabwe, notable progress has been made through structures such as the National Case Management System (NCMS), Childline Zimbabwe, and community-based child protection committees. However, while these systems are functional, they are often protection-focused rather than child-sensitive, meaning they
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If These Children Were on Planes, the World Would Never Look Away
Michael Gwarisa Visualise this: the world’s largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380, a double-deck giant capable of carrying more than 500 people. Now imagine one crashing, killing every child on board. Now imagine it happening again and again, more than thirty times. That is roughly the scale of the estimated 20,000 children killed across Gaza,
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Will Zambia Succumb to US Pressure Over Health Aid and Minerals?
Michael Gwarisa Zambia finds itself at the centre of a high stakes geopolitical and public health dilemma as pressure from the United States intensifies over a proposed agreement linking health funding to economic concessions. While April 30 has circulated widely as a decisive deadline, it is not an official contractual cutoff. Instead, it reflects mounting
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