Zimbabwe’s Data-to-Policy Insights Reveal Solutions to Curb Maternal Mortality, Costly Cancer Diagnoses, Unregistered Deaths & Rising GBV Cases

By Michael Gwarisa Amid critical gaps in key health and social indicators, findings from a four-month-long Data-to-Policy training program have underscored the urgent need for policy interventions, Health Times has learned. The Data-to-Policy program, launched by Vital Strategies in collaboration with the United States Centers for Disease Control Foundation and the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat), aims to promote evidence-based policymaking in Zimbabwe’s healthcare and social sectors. Speaking on behalf of the ZimStat Director General at the Data-to-Policy Dissemination Forum in Harare, ZimStat’s Demography and Social Statistics Director, Mr. Aluwisio…

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Woman Relives 12 Year Ordeal With Obstetric Fistula

AS an orphan and at age 14, Tendai Chimana (now 40), got into an early child marriage. This occurred after she had dropped out of school in Grade 7 and started working as a house help in Harare since she had relocated from her rural home in Birchenough Bridge, Manicaland. By Michael Gwarisa Some months into her marriage, she conceived and everything was normal. Trouble only came around the third trimester when her husband suggested that she goes and deliver the child in rural Bocha where her aunt resided. It…

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