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Child Health Health News MARTERNAL HEALTH Nutrition

Women Should Breastfeed At Work- Minister

Michael Gwarisa

By Michael Gwarisa WORKING environments should be conducive enough to allow women to breastfeed during working hours, Health and Child Care Minister Dr David Parirenyatwa has said. He said this while officially opening the 2017 World Breast Feeding Week in Highfields today (3 August 2017). “When children are breast fed, they get sick less often.

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20181211 210911
Health News MARTERNAL HEALTH Nutrition REPRODUCTIVE

Lack Of Investment Hampering Breast Feeding Efforts

Michael Gwarisa

New analysis shows an investment of US$4.70 per newborn could generate US$300 billion in economic gains by 2025 GENEVA/NEW YORK, 1 August 2017 – No country in the world fully meets recommended standards for breastfeeding, according to a new report by UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with the Global Breastfeeding Collective,

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Community Response Health News Nutrition WATER AND SANITATION

53 000 Benefit from US Nutrition and Sanitation Project

Michael Gwarisa

Staff Reporter NOT less than 53 000 Zimbabwean citizens have benefited from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) driven Community Water Supply, Sanitation, Hygiene, and Natural Resources Management project (C-WASH). The project is being Implemented by Development Aid from People to People (DAPP) Zimbabwe and  C-WASH worked with communities to provide sustainable access

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Child Health Health News MARTERNAL HEALTH Nutrition REPRODUCTIVE

Iron Deficiency Common In Zim Toddlers and Pregnant Woman

Michael Gwarisa

By Michael Gwarisa LACK of proper nutrients in foods consumed in Zimbabwe has led to a surge in iron deficiency and anemia cases amongst toddlers and pregnant woman, a ministry of health official has said. Presenting during a Communication for Development discussion on the implementation of the National Nutrition Communication Strategy organised by UNICEF today, Nutritionist

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Features Health News MARTERNAL HEALTH Nutrition

Zimbabwe struggles To Scale up Infant Nutrition

Michael Gwarisa

Story by Nevson Mpofu HealthTimes Correspondent    ZIMBABWE is part of the initiative Scaling Up Nutrition Movement which was initiated in 2010. Currently, Zimbabwe Civil Society Organizations scaling up Nutrition Alliance [ZCSOSUNA] are intensifying Nutrition sensitive interventions with a network of its various stakeholders. The ‘hot’ topic is on the 1st 1000  days. The First 1000

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