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Girls participants holding certificates at Cimas Healthathon 3.0
Commentary Opinion & Analysis

Healthathon 3.0: What Zimbabwe’s Health Innovation Challenge Is Telling Us

Michael Gwarisa

By Michael Gwarisa Two weeks ago, Cimas Health Group hosted the third edition of its Healthathon, bringing together innovators, students, health professionals and technology enthusiasts to showcase solutions to some of Zimbabwe’s healthcare challenges. Beyond the pitches, prototypes and competition for the top prize, Healthathon 3.0 offered something perhaps more important: a window into how

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A miner standing at a copper mine in Zambia as the country faces pressure from the United States over a minerals for health aid deal
Commentary Opinion Opinion & Analysis

Will Zambia Succumb to US Pressure Over Health Aid and Minerals?

Michael Gwarisa

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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