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Illegal medicines sellers arrested in Karoi

April 8, 2024April 8, 2024 Kuda Pembere

By Staff Reporter The Medicines control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) recently conducted a raid in Chikangwe area in Karoi seizing expired drugs, unregistered medicines, skin lightening creams and body altering products. Arrested during the raid were illegal medical sellers in the area. The blitz is part of the Authority’s enforcement activities which seek to safeguard the public from unregistered medicines which may endanger public health. “The Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ), in collaboration with the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Drugs and Narcotics Division, conducted a successful blitz in the…

Zim modern contraceptive use rises

March 28, 2024 Kuda Pembere

By Kuda Pembere The latest modern Contraceptive Prevalence Rate in Zimbabwe stands at 69 percent up 1 percent from 68 percent in 2021. This was attributed to the partnership between the Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council (ZNFPC) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Despite this enviable CPR, the Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council (ZNFPC) acting executive director Mr Farai Machinga said they while they are aiming to get the unmet need for family planning at 6 percent, they are at 10 percent which has not changed from 2022. And…

UNICEF Zimbabwe launches campaign on children and climate change

March 28, 2024October 18, 2025 Kuda Pembere

By Staff Reporter UNICEF Zimbabwe has launched a communication campaign which seeks to involve children’s participation in climate change issues which are increasingly affecting them. The campaign also comes at a time when Zimbabwe is enduring an El-Nino induced drought. “The Climate Change Crisis is a Child Rights Crisis. Climate change is impacting the lives of children worldwide, also in Zimbabwe. “It creates scarcity in access to safe water and food, impacts on the health of children, increases children’s vulnerability to exploitation and abuse, and jeopardises their well-being, even threatening…

UNFPA Zimbabwe Hands Over 19 Vehicles To Strategic Partners

March 25, 2024March 25, 2024 Kuda Pembere

By Kuda Pembere The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), has handed over 19 vehicles to its partners to enable them to do their work in reaching out to vulnerable populations as well as the youth. The handing over of these vehicles is part of its five year program cycle where they get vehicles for partners and hand them over at the end of the program. At the end of that country program cycle, we actually hand over the equipment that has been purchased during the course of the country program.…

Import duty on grains removed

March 24, 2024 Kuda Pembere

By Kuda Pembere In an effort to ensure national food security while lessening the consequences of the drought caused by El Nino, Zimbabwe has loosened restrictions on the importation of grains at the household level. Addressing a post cabinet media briefing, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Dr Jenfan Muswere said Government is currently implementing some measures to protect Zimbabweans from hunger. Cabinet wishes to advise the nation that in light of the El-Nino-induced drought, various measures are being instituted to guarantee food security for all and ensure that no…

Zimbabwe Records Decline In New HIV Infections In Adolescent Girls and Young Women

March 23, 2024March 23, 2024 Kuda Pembere

By Kudakwashe Pembere Zimbabwe is on schedule to reduce new HIV infections in adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) by 2025, at the back of increased coverage of combination prevention programs alongside other interventions, the Global HIV Prevention Coalition(GPC) said in a report. While the country is still amongst high HIV burden countries alongside Cameroon, Lesotho and Malawi, GPC noted that there has been a decline in the acquiring of HIV in AGYW. The report looks at the progress in HIV control in some African countries. HIV incidence among adolescent…

Zim’s Oral health strategy on cards

March 20, 2024 Kuda Pembere

By Kuda Pembere As part of efforts to improve oral health in the country, the Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC) is working on developing a strategy for oral health as well as conducting a national oral health survey. This was said by Health and Child Care Deputy Minister, Sleiman Kwidini on Wednesday during the World Oral Health Day commemorations themed “Healthy Mouth, Healthy Body”. According to the oral health situational analysis, carried out last year with support from WHO, there are gaps in service delivery, information for programming,…

10 Minutes In The Shoes Of Zim’;s First Video-Assisted-Thoracoscopy-Surgery (VATS) Patient

March 19, 2024 Kuda Pembere

By Kudakwashe Pembere On March 1, 2024, donning a purple silk night gown, Tatenda Nyakutya is admitted in Ward B5 for females as she awaits to see her 17-year-old child whom she last saw about a week prior her surgery. Despite the pots surgery pain, Tatenda’s sense of humor gets the best of her as she finds time to crack one or two jokes with her relatives. “So in 2022, I collapsed and they rushed me to Nyanga District Hospital,” says Tatenda as she shuffles through a medicine bag containing…

Chitungwiza Hospital moves to contain water crisis

March 18, 2024 Kuda Pembere

By Kuda Pembere Construction of a 600 000 litre water reservoir at Chitungwiza Central Hospital is well on course with Hospital authorities upbeat they will complete it by year end. The water reservoir comes to contain the water shortages the Hospital has been battling with over the past years. Speaking with HealthTimes, Chitungwiza Hospital Clinical Director Dr Jonah Kasule said following consultations, a water reservoir was proposed the best solution to avert the water crisis. “So we have our water challenges in Chitungwiza Hospital. It’s been there for years. And…