Category: Health News

Egyptian Drug Authority pays courtesy call to VP Chiwenga

Kuda Pembere

A delegation of members from the Egyptian Drug Authority (EDA) paid a courtesy call to the Vice President and Health and Child Care Minister DrConstantine Chiwenga ahead of a signing ceremony of a memorandum of understanding with the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe. By Kudakwashe Pembere The EDA is an initiative for” an organization within the Ministry of Health that is responsible for safeguarding people health by regulating safety and quality of medicines (human and veterinary), biologicals, medical devices, cosmetics, dietary supplements and pesticides. Leading the EDA delegation is Professor…

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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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Oral sex triggers wave of rare mouth and throat cancers – Latest study

Michael Gwarisa

Over the past two decades, there has been a rapid increase in throat cancer in the west, to the extent that some have called it an epidemic. This has been due to a large rise in a specific type of throat cancer called oropharyngeal cancer (the area of the tonsils and back of the throat). The main cause of this cancer is the human papillomavirus (HPV), which are also the main cause of cancer of the cervix. Oropharyngeal cancer has now become more common than cervical cancer in the US…

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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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CAB-LA Game Changer for Closing the Leaks to New HIV Infections among young people

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Onward Gibson Chironda- AVAC Fellow, Zimbabwe Zimbabwe approved cabotegravir long-acting (CAB-LA) for HIV prevention. In March 2021, the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) approved CAB-LA for use as HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in combination with oral emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (FTC/TDF). This landmark approval made Zimbabwe the second country in sub-Saharan Africa, after South Africa, to approve CAB-LA for HIV prevention. The approval of CAB-LA in Zimbabwe is a significant step forward in the country’s efforts to close the tap and the leaks reduce new HIV infections. Zimbabwe has one of…

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SHOCKING: PSMAS Loses US$60 Million In Contributors Funds To In-house Corruption

Michael Gwarisa

FINDINGS from a Premier Service Medical Society (PSMAS) audit have revealed gross embezzlement and mismanagement of contributors’ funds by the company’s top management, the board, health service providers and the disorganization’s affiliates. By Michael Gwarisa In 2022, the registrar of Medical Aid Societies ordered a forensic audit into PSMAS, to find out if the medical aid society was not abusing funds by engaging in non-core business. Cases in point include investment in micro-finance, buying and selling of gold, extending society beyond the borders, and creating additional institutions that draw funds…

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Teen Pregnancies Are Soaring. Is Revamping Sex Education the Answer?

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BIKITA, ZIMBABWE — When Delight Ziwacha was 16, she didn’t know one could get pregnant after having unprotected sex only once. A friend told her that it had to happen multiple times. So, after experimenting with alcohol during a high school soccer tournament, she had unprotected sex with her 17-year-old boyfriend. A month and a half later, she found out she was pregnant. By Evidence Chenjerai Senior Reporter “It only happened that one time,” she says. Ziwacha, now 19, doesn’t remember ever receiving any sex education in school. The little…

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