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Ecobank Zimbabwe Intensifies Fight Against NCDs

October 7, 2019 Healthtimes

PAN-AFRICAN Bank Ecobank has invested ZW$500 000 for the fight against non-communicable diseases in Zimbabwe. By Kudakwashe Pembere Speaking to HealthTimes on the sidelines of the Ecobank Day celebrations in Budiriro 5 on Saturday, the bank’s Head of Operations and Technology for the Sadc region Mr Frank Karara said as a Pan African financial services institution they were now focusing on health issues. Its our operations as a bank, particularly a Pan African Bank,operating across Africa. We are concerned about health. If we have a healthy nation, we have a…

300 000 People Living With HIV Fail To Access Services

October 4, 2019 Healthtimes

ZIMBABWE has about 300 000 people living with HIV still on the sidelines of accessing treatment services due to poor health seeking behavior among other things. By Kudakwashe Pembere This emerged during a two day Men’s Dialogue involving Traditional and Faith Based leaders on HIV and Health in Harare. On the sidelines of the event, Health Ministry National PMTCT and Pediatric HIV Care and Treatment Coordinator Dr Angela Mushavi told HealthTimes that they have learnt that a large number of those left behind in accessing HIV services are men. In…

#GoodNews: If Your Virus Is Undetectable, You Cant Transmit HIV

October 3, 2019October 7, 2019 Michael Gwarisa

ACCORDING to 20 years of research and evidence, HIV treatment is highly effective in reducing the transmission of HIV. People living with HIV on antiretroviral therapy who have an undetectable level of HIV in their blood have a negligible risk of transmitting HIV sexually. According to the UNAIDS, three large studies of sexual HIV transmission among thousands of couples, one partner of which was living with HIV and the other was not, were undertaken between 2007 and 2016. In those studies, there was not a single case of sexual transmission…

Prominent Zim Health Journalist Dies In Namibia

October 1, 2019 Michael Gwarisa

PATIENCE Nyangove, a Zimbabwean born Journalist has succumbed to a brain infection in Namibia. Patience has been hospitalised at a Windhoek hospital over the past months after doctors detected a brain infection. Until the time of her demise she has been a senior journalist at The Confidente Newspaper in Namibia. A top-drawer reporter covering health, hard news, investigative and feature writing, Patience has over 15 years working experience in print industry. Her journalism career began in Zimbabwe where she worked for the AMH Media Holdings which publishes The Standard, NewsDay…

Doctors Strike Enters Fourth Week

September 30, 2019September 30, 2019 Michael Gwarisa

TODAY marks exactly four weeks since government doctors declared incapacitation as a result of poor living conditions, amidst indications that there could be no hope in sight to the end of the industrial action should government fail to meet their demands. By Michael Gwarisa In a statement, Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) acting Secretary General, Dr Tawanda Zvakada said doctors were committed to resuming work and saving lives but the situation on the ground was no longer workable. Several engagements have been made with the employer to come and address…

‘Shun Stigma Towards People With Ostomy’

September 30, 2019 Healthtimes

HEALTH workers and homecare givers should stop stigmatising people living with ostomy through offering psychosocial support. By Kudakwashe Pembere Ostomy is a surgery where surgeons create an opening also known as stoma from an area inside the body to the outside to treat digestive or urinary systems. This came out during a sensitisation meeting on ostomy on Monday hosted by Ileostomy Colostomy Zimbabwe Trust. A Sister in Charge at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals in the departments of Oncology and Pallative Care Roseline Changondolo urged nurses to shun arrogance when managing…

Zim Runs Out Of Baby Growth Monitoring Charts

September 30, 2019September 30, 2019 Healthtimes

ZIMBABWEAN mothers have gone for several months without baby growth monitoring chart cards and have since resorted to clinic or hospital cards used for ‘over fives’, HealthTimes has learnt. By Kudakwashe Pembere The unavailability of these ‘baby cards’ has deprived mothers access to critical growth monitoring information, plunging the health of babies in jeopardy. Health Ministry’s Family Health Director Dr Bernard Madzima told this publication the importance of these cards. “The cards which you are talking about are called ‘Road To Health Cards’ or ‘Growth Monitoring Cards’. They are for…

2020 Health Levy Collections To Drop

September 26, 2019September 26, 2019 Healthtimes

THE Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC) has revised downwards its monthly target for revenue collected from the 5% health levy to ZW$10.5 million down from their initial projection of ZW$17 million per month for the year 2020. By Michael Gwarisa The development follows a series of mobile tariff increases by local mobile network operators in the past few months which has led to a reduction in spending on voice calls by citizens on their cellphones. Ministry of Health Director Finance and Administration, Mrs Heather Machamire said collections from…

Ex US Officials Push For First Lady Harvard Award Nullification

September 25, 2019September 25, 2019 Healthtimes

A team of former US diplomats and academia want one of its leading educational institutions Harvard University to revoke the honorary ambassadorial role it gave Zimbabwe’s first Lady Dr Auxillia Mnangagwa. This follows her appointment as Harvard Ambassador three days ago. The petitioners include Ambassador (ret) Harry Thomas United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe (2015-2018), Ambassador (ret) Bruce Wharton United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe (2012-2015), Ambassador (ret) Charles Ray United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe (2009-2012), Ambassador (ret) Christopher Dell United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe (2004-2007), Ambassador (ret) Michelle Gavin United States…

#BREAKING: Dr Magombeyi To Be Treated In SA, High Court Orders

September 24, 2019September 26, 2019 Healthtimes

THE High Court on Tuesday directed the evacuation of Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association acting president Dr Peter Magombeyi to be taken to South Africa for specialist medical treatment. By Kudakwashe Pembere This comes after the Zimbabwe Republic Police had prevented him from leaving the Avenues Clinic where he was getting treatment “At Avenues Clinic, Zimbabwean Police are currently preventing ZHDA leader Dr Peter Magombeyi from leaving the medical facility to board a plane to access specialist medical care in defiance of a High Court order issued on Tuesday by Justice…