By Staff Reporter HEALTH Advisor to former President of Zimbabwe, Dr Timothy Stamps has died. Dr Stamps was born on 15 October 1936 in Wales, United Kingdom and served as Zimbabwe’s Minister of Health and Child Welfare (now Ministry of Health and Child Care) from 1986 to 2002 and for most of this period he was the only white member of the Robert Mugabe led government. The cause of his death was not immediately available More details to follow…
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By Michael Gwarisa In Nairobi Kenya VETERAN Zimbabwean Journalist, Barnabas Tondhlana has been unanimously endorsed to chair the newly formed East and Southern Africa Harm Reduction Health Reporters Initiative. The initiative was formed on November 2017 in Naivasha, following a convention by tobacco industry stakeholders on tobacco harm reduction. The group consists of over 60 journalists drawn from Nigeria, Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Tondhlana has more than 20 years Journalism experience and has headed various news organisations in…
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By Michael Gwarisa In Nairobi, Kenya ADOPTING new technologies such as the E-Cigarettes could go a long way in alleviating harm caused by tobacco smoking, experts have said. These development came out during the the Tobacco Harm Reduction Workshop in Naivash-Kenya which is aimed at pushing to provide a new frontier to a smoke free world as well as discuss how new technologies can reduce tobacco harm and accelerate the journey to a smoke-free world The conference, themed “Tobacco harm reduction: Towards a smoke free world” identified the urgent need to…
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…Experts Call For New Technologies To Fight Tobacco Harm… By Michael Gwarisa from Nairobi, Kenya AFRICA is recording a massive increase in cases of child smokers with children between the ages of 13 and 15 being the biggest victims owing to peer pressure as well as the cheap pricing of cigarettes in most African markets. The call comes amidst indications of increased cases on Child smokers in Africa with high cases having been recorded in West Africa, East and other some parts Southern Parts of Africa. Speaking during a Tobacco…
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ROBERT Mugabe has resigned as President of Zimabwe according to speaker of Parliament J J Mudenda more news to follow
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Around the year 2003, the HIV epidemic was a disease of unimaginable proportions both in trying to contain it and being diagnosed with it. Being infected with the disease meant a condemnation to a life of isolation as the society as well shunned those who had the disease. That was the very time, the late Siphiwe Sindisi, a registered general nurse based in Mt Darwin learnt of her HIV positive status when her husband died of the same disease. This publication met up with Siphiwe, some weeks before her demise,…
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SOURCE NEWSDAY (Vanessa Gonye) GOVERNMENT is yet to establish the late Health deputy minister Aldrin Musiiwa cause of death, minister David Parirenyatwa said yesterday. “We have not been told the postmortem results, but i can confirm the body is still in Dublin. We are hopeful of communication from that side later on in the day,” he said. [pullquote]An official in the ministry also said: “We had a series of meetings today (yesterday), but nothing in line with the postmortem was communicated.”[/pullquote] Mussiwa (51) collapsed and died in Dublin, Ireland on…
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Staff Reporter Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says despite the significant progress that has been made in preventing HIV infection, South Africa is still struggling to reduce HIV/AIDS mortality in the country. (MSF) Medical Coordinator for South Africa, Dr. Amir Shroufi said, “Despite significantly improved access to ARVs, major challenges remain to reduce HIV/AIDS mortality in South Africa from an unacceptably high 180,000 deaths a year [1]. In order to reach the 40% of people living with HIV who still have not started ARVs, scaling up public access to new tools such…
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By Michael Gwarisa HEALTH and Childcare Deputy Minister, Mr Aldrin Musiiwa has died. According to the Ministry of Health, Mr Musiiwa died while on duty in Dublin yesterday morning. “We have sad news,, the deputy Minister Mr Musiiwa who had gone to Dublin for a meeting with other MoHCC officials died yesterday morning while still in Dublin. “We are going and the process of making arrangements to have his body return home. We will keep you informed of developments. We will provide details of local arrangements later in the morning.…
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By HealthTimes Reporter Representatives of medical aid societies, pharmacists, hospitals, doctors, laboratories, the legal sector and other stakeholders from across the country on Thursday lamented the lack of specific laws to deal with healthcare fraud when they came together at the Healthcare Fraud Indaba in Harare. In discussions and presentations, it was noted that medical aid societies were incurring huge losses through fraud. There was general agreement on the need to address this problem. The Healthcare Fraud Indaba, which began on Thursday and continued on Friday, was initiated by the…
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