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Uganda approves Anti-LGBTQ Law

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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has signed one of the world’s harshest anti-LGBTQ laws, his spokesperson said on Monday, defying international condemnations and the risk of sanctions from donors. Same-sex relations were already illegal in Uganda, as they are in more than 30 African countries, but the new law goes further in targeting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people. It imposes the death penalty for so-called aggravated homosexuality, which includes having gay sex when HIV-positive, and a 20-year sentence for “promoting” homosexuality. ALSO READ | Uganda outlaws identifying as LGBTQ,…

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IDAHOBIT 2023: End Discrimination and Violence Towards LGBTIQ Persons in Zimbabwe

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ON the occasion of celebrating this year’s International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT), LGBTIQ rights advocacy organisations in Zimbabwe have called for an end to discrimination and violence against sexual minorities. By Paul Sixpence IDAHOBIT has been celebrated yearly on 17 May since 1990, the day when the Health Organisation Organisation (WHO), declassified homosexuality as a mental disability and de-classified it as a disease. This year’s commemorations are being held under the theme, “Together Always: United in Diversity. The theme speaks to the importance of inclusivity and support…

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POSB Donates Equipment to Rehabilitate Borehole at Mahusekwa Hospital

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 The People’s Own Saving Bank (POSB), the country’s leading savings bank, has donated equipment to rehabilitate a borehole at Mahusekwa Hospital in Mashonaland East Province. The donation is part of POSB’s Borehole for Health initiative, which aims to provide healthcare institutions facing acute water shortages with safe and reliable water sources in each of the nation’s provinces. By Staff Reporter The borehole at Mahusekwa Hospital was installed by POSB in 2018 but had become dysfunctional. POSB has now provided new equipment, including an HH submissible pump, pipes and fittings to…

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Ezra foundation donates sanitary wear in Mhondoro

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MHONDORO – Ezra foundation has donated 267 kits of reusable sanitary wear to female students at Chitemere Secondary School in Mhondoro in an effort to end period poverty. By Staff Reporter Period poverty is a global issue affecting women and girls who don’t have access to the safe, hygienic menstrual products they need. Zimbabwe is experiencing rising cases of period poverty due to rising costs of living, making access to sanitary wear impossible for rural girls, and increasing cases of absenteeism at school. Statistics from the World Bank show that…

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Zimbabwe’s Suspected Cholera Burden Nearing 1000 Mark

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CHOLERA could become Zimbabwe’s latest healthcare headache as the country continues to record new suspected infections and deaths related to the Diarrhoeal disease. By Staff Reporter  This comes amidst indications that the country has to date recorded 800 cumulative suspected Cholera cases and 18 suspected deaths. According to the Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC), 20 new suspected cholera cases, one suspected death and 23 laboratory confirmed results were reported yesterday. The suspected cases were reported from Budiriro (3), Glenview (2),beitbridge (2), Buhera (4), Mutare Rural (4) and Chimanimani…

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#JUSTIN# “It’s a lie!”- Gvt distances self from controversial pro-graft law

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New developments reveal that President Emerson Mnangagwa is not aware and did not sign the bizzare procurement and disposal act. By Staff Reporter In a statement, Chief Secretary of the President and Cabinet, Dr Misheck Sibanda said the circulating document was a hoax. His Excellency the President, Dr ED Mnangagwa, has been made aware of some document gazetted as General Notice 635 of 2023, purporting to place the procurement of certain goods outside public scrutiny, on grounds of “national interest”. “Upon further investigations, it has- come to light that the…

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Outrageous: Zimbabwe Government approves bizarre law that sanctions healthcare corruption

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Zimbabwe’s President, Emmerso Mnangagwa has signed into law, the Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Act (Chapter 22:23), which shields the ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC), from  public scrutiny regarding its disposal and procurement of both movable and fixed assets. By Staff Reporter The new law comes a few years after a healthcare scandal that rocked the health sector in which former health and child minister and his accomplices allegedly swindled government in millions of dollars in a botched COVID-19 equipment procurement scam. According to Section 26…

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The imperative of integrated person-centered care to achieving Universal Health Coverage

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By Vivian Mugarisi Harare, Zimbabwe – 51-year-old Kay Mabika** adheres to her HIV medication. Testing positive for HIV in 2006 added more weight and complexities onto the burden of living with diabetes, which she was diagnosed with 4 years earlier. Despite being strict in adhering to antiretroviral treatment (ART), Mabika struggles to manage her diabetic condition and is worried that she may not even be able to afford the medication when she retires. Due to the diabetic condition, she lost her sight in her left eye and the right one…

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Rare Diseases – Facing Challenges with Limited Access to Medication

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By:Retlaw Matatu Matorwa Zimbabwe, like many Sub-Saharan African countries has been grappling with the challenge of rare diseases. Rare diseases are classified as any disease that affects fewer than 5 in 10,000 people. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there are over 7,000 rare diseases, and they are often chronic, progressive, and life-threatening. There are many challenges in diagnosing and managing rare diseases, with limited access to medication and lack of knowledge by medical professionals on how to manage them, being the main obstacles. Zimbabwe has a high burden…

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WHO Declares An End To COVID-19 Global Health Emergency

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The World Health Organization announced on Friday that it was ending the emergency it declared for Covid-19 more than three years ago, a milestone in the fitful emergence from a pandemic that has killed millions of people around the world and upended daily life in previously unimaginable ways. “It is with great hope that I declare Covid-19 over as a global health emergency,” said the W.H.O. director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. But W.H.O. officials warned that the decision to lift the emergency does not signal an end to the pandemic,…

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