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Faith and Community Initiative Launched To Accelerate Attainment Of HIV Epidemic Control In Zimbabwe

September 24, 2020September 24, 2020 Michael Gwarisa

THE Faith and Community Initiative (FCI) project, a programme which is aimed at scaling-up community and faith responses, which are central to achieving the 95–95–95 global treatment target and the PEPFAR goals focusing on impact, efficiency, sustainability, partnership, and human rights. By Michael Gwarisa The initiative is being supported by PEPFAR and USAID and the Organization for Public Health Interventions and Development (OPHID) and implementing partners, Zimbabwe Association of Church Related Hospitals (ZACH), Family Aids Caring Trust – FACT Zimbabwe and AFRICAID are launching the Faith and Community Initiative FCI)…

Health Ministry Orders UZ To Suspend Specialist Training For Doctors

September 24, 2020 Michael Gwarisa

THE Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC) has directed the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) to suspend the Masters of Medicine and Masters of Obstetrics and Gynecology programmes with immediate effect. HealthTimes Reporter In a letter written to the Dean, Faculty of Medecine and Health Science by the University of Zimbabwe’s Registrar, Dr Noah Mutongoreni, he said the new development was a followup to the communication from the MoHCC. “Following communication from the MoHCC to the effect that Registrar’s enrolled for the UZ’s Masters of Medicine and Masters of Obstetrics…

Zim Young People Living With HIV Forced To Bribe Hospital Staff To Get Second Line Drugs, Told To Produce Empty ARVs Containers At Security Checkpoints To Prove They Are HIV+ During Early Stages Of Lockdown

September 23, 2020May 23, 2022 Michael Gwarisa

LIFE under the COVID-19 induced lockdown has never been the same since the day the Zimbabwean government announced a nationwide lockdown which commenced on March 30, 2020. For most young people living with HIV and on treatment, the emotional scars the lockdown has inflicted on them will take time to heal, as they had to surrender some of their rights and dignity just to access lifesaving Antiretroviral (ARV) drugs. By Michael Gwarisa For 22-year-old Takudzwa who lives in Harare and on second line Antiretroviral (ARVs) treatment, accessing HIV treatment under…

Phillip Morris & Swedish Match Amongst Leading Tobacco Companies Advancing Tobacco Harm Reduction- Tobacco Transformation Index Finds

September 23, 2020October 17, 2025 Michael Gwarisa

THE first Tobacco Transformation Index released this week and made possible with funding from the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World, finds that most of the 15 largest tobacco companies are not making substantive progress in phasing out cigarettes and other high-risk tobacco products and transitioning smokers to reduced-risk alternatives. By Michael Gwarisa A small group of companies have made public commitments to harm reduction and backed them with significant investments. A majority of companies have made no such commitment to tobacco harm reduction. With 1.3 billion tobacco users in the…

Zimbabwe Commences Nationwide Deworming Exercise, 300 000 Targeted For free Bilharzia Treatment in Shamva and Mount Darwin

September 23, 2020 Michael Gwarisa

THE Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC) with support from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Higherlife Foundation have kick-started the National Mass Treatment for bilharzia and intestinal worms as a follow-up to the healthcare worker’s Mass Drug Administration (MDA) training exercise which concluded last week in Shamva and Mount Darwin. By Michael Gwarisa The National Mass Treatment exercise started in Mashonaland Central Province this week in (Shamva and Mount Darwin). WHO started their support visit at Chitse Clinic in Mt Darwin where WHO is providing on the job…

#JUSTIN: Gvt Announces Phased Schools Reopening Schedule

September 22, 2020 Michael Gwarisa

INFORMATION Publicity and Broadcasting Services minister, Honorable Monica Mutsvangwa has announced the government approved phased school reopening schedule. By Michael Gwarisa According to minister Mutsangwa, Phase 1 of the reopening will start with Grade 7s, Forms 4 and 6 on the 28th of September followed by Grade 6, Form 3 and 5s on 26 October. Phase 3 will open on November 9 2020 with the rest of the learners which covers ECD A and B, grade 1,2,3,4,5 and Forms 1 and 2. More Details to follow…

Chinese Traditional Medicine and Acupuncture Clinic To Be Established At Pare

September 22, 2020September 22, 2020 Michael Gwarisa

THE Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC) has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the Health Commission of the Republic of China on cooperation in the field of traditional medicine and acupuncture. According to a letter written to the Acting Registar, Natural Therapist Council of Zimbabwe Mr K Rose by the Permanent Secretary in the MoHCC, Dr Jasper Chimedza, the clinic was now ready for inspection and licensing and he requested the council to expedite the licensing so that the clinic is officially opened. What is acupuncture? Acupuncture…

Kudya Sikarudzi Dzakawanda Kunogona Kukonzera Gomarara Re Mumuromo ne Pagurokuro- Vanamzvikokota

September 22, 2020September 22, 2020 Michael Gwarisa

WANGA uchizviziva here kuti kudya sikarudzi senzira (Oral Sex) yekuita bonde kunogona kukuisa muna taisireva? Njodzi huru iripo kana uri munhu uya anosangana neshamwari dzakawanda dzepabonde huye uchifarira zvekudya yekera. Na Michael Gwarisa Vanamazvikokota vanoona nezve denda re Gomarara kana kuti Cancer vanoti ivo zvinokwanisika kuti hutaichiona hwe Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) hunokonzera cancer kuti hutapururanwe kupfurikidza ne nekudya sika rudzi dzaka siyana siyana. Kune tvsakurudzo dzakanyorwa mu Annals of Oncology dzakatarisa zvakawanikwa ne National Health and Nutrition Survey zvinova zvakaratidza kuti vanhu zviuru zvemazana 13, 089 vemakore ari pakati…

Apply Gender Lens For All WASH Programmes To Reduce SGBV Says UNICEF

September 22, 2020September 22, 2020 Michael Gwarisa

AS the world grapples to contain the COVID-19 health crisis, a silent pandemic in the form of Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) continues to roam around untamed. According to the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey of 2019, about one in every two women aged 15-49 in Zimbabwe had experienced emotional, physical and sexual abuse committed by the current or last husband/partner in their lifetime. By Michael Gwarisa To address the continued surge in GBV and SGBV cases, there is need to identify the loopholes and gaps that may be contributing…

The Avenues Clinic Lifts Patients Visiting Hours Restrictions

September 21, 2020September 21, 2020 Michael Gwarisa

THE Avenues Clinic has riveted to its usual patients visiting hours which had been suspended for the past two months due to COVID-19. By Michael Gwarisa The restoration of visiting hours is effective 22 September 2020 and the the visiting hours schedule will still be limited to one visitor and one visiting hour per patient per day. In the initial communication to the public, the hospital had reported that suspension of visiting hours had been necessitated by the increase in the number of Covid-19 cases which was being reported at…