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Cassava Fintech International launches SASAI Health Status Report as it steps up fight against COVID-19

June 24, 2020 Healthtimes

Healthtech platform set to offer handy solution to tackle epidemic Report to assist employers, businesses safely get employees back to work London – June 24, 2020: Cassava Fintech International (CFI), a subsidiary of the Econet Group, has launched the SASAI Health Status Report (SHSR), a secure blockchain technology-supported solution expected to digitize the testing process, establish citizens’ COVID-19 status, enable them to share their testing results through a digital platform and help businesses safely get employees back to work as economies reopen, following restrictive lockdowns. The healthtech solution was announced…

#COVID-19: ARVs Cost Could Go Up- UNAIDS Warns

June 23, 2020June 23, 2020 Healthtimes

THE COVID-19 could affect the availability, cost and distribution of antiretroviral (ARVs) medicines in low- and middle-income countries around the world, a new UNAIDS study has revealed. HealthTimes Reporter According the study, the impact on production and logistics caused by COVID-19 could have a significant effect on antiretroviral therapy supply worldwide, but steps taken now could lessen the damage done. The UNAIDS survey discovered that the lockdowns and border closures imposed to stop COVID-19 are impacting both the production of medicines and their distribution, potentially leading to increases in their…

Men Should Suck Women’s Breasts To Prevent Breast Cancer – Expert

June 22, 2020 Healthtimes

A midwife, Madam Mary Azika, has encouraged men to frequently suck their wives’ breasts as a means to prevent breast cancer in women. SOURCE: THE HERALD NIGERIA The midwife in the Upper East Region stated that the advise as trivial as it may sounds seeing as men had often jested about it could help women in the war against breast cancer. While speaking at a seminar organised by the Upper East Regional Chapter of the Distance Education Students Association of Ghana (DESAG) of the University of Cape Coast (UCC), the…

Inhuman Conditions At Some Quarantine Centres A Cause For Concern in Zimbabwe

June 20, 2020June 20, 2020 Healthtimes

RETURNING residents ought to stay in quarantine for 21 days. However, this is not the case. Some returning residents have stayed for up to a month or even more. Quarantine overstayed results in it being more of detention. With such a delayed release, human nature rebels and can result in some people escaping. Catherine Murombedzi Health Correspondent The Vice President, Kembo Mohadi, speaking on a tour of a COVID-19 isolation centre in Mashava, Masvingo Province on Friday reiterated the need for the health ministry to speed up COVID-19 tests of…

Health Minister Obadiah Moyo Arrested

June 19, 2020June 19, 2020 Healthtimes

HEALTH and Child Care Minister, Dr Obadiah Moyo has been arrested for abusing office and involvement in the stinky #COVIDGATE scandal where millions are believed to have been siphoned into dubious companies under the guise of providing Protective Personal Equipment (PPE). He will spend a night a Rhodesville police station. …More To Follow

Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition Supports Healthcare Workers Strike

June 18, 2020 Healthtimes

THE Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) has thrown its weight behind the ongoing strike by healthcare workers swho are demanding dignified working conditions and better remuneration. HealthTimes Reporter In a statement, CiZC Spokesperson, Marvellous Kumalo said the government of Zimbabwe should expedite negotiations with the workers, who are on strike and accede to their reasonable demands. The Coalition is fully supportive of the healthcare workers withdrawal of their labour because they have, in the past held prolonged negotiations with the stubborn government in demanding decent remuneration and an improvement in…

Ministry of Health Calls For September 2020 Nursing Applications

June 18, 2020 Healthtimes

Ministry of Health Calls For September 2020 Nursing Applications National eRecruitment of Registered General Nurse Training September 2020 Intake Applications for the three year Diploma in Registered General Nurse Training to be conducted by the Ministry of Health and Child Health Care (MoHCC) are invited from suitably qualified holders of the following qualifications; A minimum of 5 “O” Level subjects with passes in English Language, Mathematics and a Science subject and two others (that exclude practical subjects such as Fashion and Fabrics, Metal Work, Graphic Art, Art and Woodwork) at…

Novartis expands Africa Sickle Cell Disease program to Uganda and Tanzania

June 18, 2020 Healthtimes

NOVARTIS and its partners have announced the expansion of the Africa Sickle Cell Disease program to East Africa with the signature of two new memoranda of understanding with the Ministries of Health of Uganda and Tanzania. HealthTimes Reporter The program, first launched in Ghana in November 2019, aims to improve and extend the lives of people with sickle cell disease (SCD) in sub-Saharan Africa, with plans to reach a total of 10 countries by 2022. In this time of worldwide uncertainty, it is even more important to support people living…

Science, Politics And Journalism In The COVID-19 Pandemic

June 17, 2020 Healthtimes

THE COVID-19 pandemic continues to take its toll on the world, with global infections having surpassed the 7.5 million mark, and almost half a million lives have been lost globally. Dr Grant Murewanhema The virus has spread to over 200 countries, and some continue to experience exponential increases in infections. This is probably the most rapidly spreading pathogen encountered in modern times, and increased globalization and mobility has not made the situation any better. Governments have imposed lockdowns on citizens to curb transmission and flatten their curves. Global trade has…

People With Blood Group A At Higher Risk Of Severe COVID-19 Illness

June 15, 2020June 15, 2020 Healthtimes

LAST week, a genetic study of more than 1,610 COVID-19 patients in Italy and Spain found that people with type A blood had a higher chance of developing severe respiratory failure than people with type O blood (medRxiv 2020, DOI: 10.1101/2020.05.31.20114991). The findings add support to an idea that has been developing since early in the global pandemic, that type O blood is somehow protective against the disease, while type A may make people more vulnerable. SOURCE: C&EN In the new study, researchers sequenced the genomes of COVID-19 patients in…