Category: NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASES

Engaging in Sex Early Exposing Girls To Cervical Cancer

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“It is also advisable for young girls not to engage in sex at an early ages as this has been seen to be another factor behind the rise in Cervical Cancer in Zimbabwe…” By Michael Gwarisa YOUNG girls who engage in sexual intercourse at an early age (9-18) are at a greater risk of developing cervical cancer in the long run, an Island Hospise official has said. Speaking in a program HIV Interventions on Star FM yesterday, Island Hospise Training Manager Franciscah Tsikai urged young girls to abstain from sex…

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President Mugabe Worried Over Rising Cancers

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By Michael Gwarisa PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe says the increase in non-communicable diseases  in most African countries was a cause for concern and urged governments to develop homegrown solutions to health issues affecting the continent. Officially opening the 67th edition of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Committee meeting today in Victoria Falls, President Mugabe said there was a worrying increase in Non-communicable diseases and new infections and there was need to act fast. “As Africa, we now face a double burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases, in most of these…

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Zim Hosts Regional Radiotheraphy Workshop

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Staff Reporter  ZIMBABWE is this week hosting the IAEA (AFRA) Regional training workshop on Radiotherapy in a bid to boost capacity amongst radiographers from across the continent. Speaking during the event’s official opening, Health and Child Care minister Dr David Parirenyatwa said the cancer scourge was growing in Africa and there was urgent need to find find homegrown solutions to the crisis. “Radiotherapy is one of the often neglected but is one of the critical areas in our hospitals. More and more cancers are being discovered in our country with…

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Oral Sex Spreading Tongue Cancer

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By Michael Gwarisa in Kadoma  ORAL Sex has been identified as the leading driver of Tongue Cancer in the country, with a number of cases having been detected already in most parts of the country, a Cancer Association of Zimbabwe official has said. Briefing Journalists during a National Aids Council Editors Sensitisation Workshop on HIV/AIDS reporting in Kadoma,  Cancer Association of Zimbabwe Information and Evaluation Officer Lovemore Makurirofa said the same Human Papillomavirus  (HPV) which causes cervical cancer could be the reason behind the new tongue cancer cases being recorded.…

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AIDS levy to fund cancer fight

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Shamiso Yikoniko Sundaimail At least 7 000 new cases of cancer are recorded every year in Zimbabwe, resulting in 1 500 deaths. Moreover, 60 percent of these cancers are associated with HIV. As a result, the National Aids Council began procuring cancer detection equipment and drugs in 2012 to diversify its measures to fight HIV and Aids. NAC monitoring and evaluation director Mr Amon Mpofu confirmed the development and said these will not be reserved for people living with HIV only. “The procured cancer equipment and drugs will be distributed…

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Zim Commemorates World No Tobacco Day

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Staff Reporter  Zimbabwe will tomorrow, June 23 commemorate the World No Tobacco Day. The celebrations which will be held in Gleniew 3 at the shopping center from 9:00 and will be headlined by Health and Child Care minister Dr David Parirenyatwa. Zimbabwe  is facing a dilemma in reducing tobacco output as it has become the major source of income for more than 100 thousand Zimbabweans benefited from the agrarian reform. The crop has also become a major foreign currency earner for the country.        

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Zim Parliament Pushes For Traditional Medicines Adoption

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By Daniel Chigundu PARLIAMENTARY Portfolio Committee on Health and Child Care chairperson Ruth Labode has called on the health ministry to consider organizing an Indaba to discuss the possibilities of adopting traditional medicine. The call comes at a time when Zimbabwe is battling a number of non curable diseases like Cancer, AIDS, Diabetes among a host of others which traditional leaders around the country claim to have solutions over. Making suggestions to the Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC), Honourable Labode said owing to a number of testimonies of…

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