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Recognition and support for village health workers in Zimbabwe: Panacea to ensure the success of primary health care and universal health coverage

Michael Gwarisa

By: Enock Musungwini, MPH, MBA The Zimbabwe Village Health Worker programme began in the 1980s, soon after independence, with the aim of enhancing access to primary health care (PHC) services in line with the then Alma Ata Declaration (1978) and now the Astana Declaration (2018) and Universal Health Coverage (UHC 2030). According to the World

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Call To Subsidise Primary Health Care

Michael Gwarisa

By Michael Gwarisa DELEGATES to the Primary Health Care Budget Advocacy Meeting have called for the subsidising of primary health care services, fees in particular at both community and national health care  centers in a bid to reduce the high mortality rate in both infants and adults. Presenting during a workshop organised by Save the

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