Tag: Letisia Zengeya

Majority of Deaths in Zimbabwe’s Rural Communities Go Unregistered

Michael Gwarisa

By Michael Gwarisa While 70% of deaths in Zimbabwe occur in rural communities, nearly half of those deaths are not registered with the Civil Registry Department. Although Zimbabwean law mandates compulsory death registration, compliance in rural areas remains low, with many deaths going unrecorded. This has raised concerns about the accuracy of national demographic data, affecting population projections, disease surveillance, epidemic tracking, and mortality pattern analysis. Letisia Zengeya, Assistant Registrar General for Births and Deaths, attributed the low death registration rates to the inaccessibility of registration centers and a lack…

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Zimbabwe’s Data-to-Policy Insights Reveal Solutions to Curb Maternal Mortality, Costly Cancer Diagnoses, Unregistered Deaths & Rising GBV Cases

Michael Gwarisa

By Michael Gwarisa Amid critical gaps in key health and social indicators, findings from a four-month-long Data-to-Policy training program have underscored the urgent need for policy interventions, Health Times has learned. The Data-to-Policy program, launched by Vital Strategies in collaboration with the United States Centers for Disease Control Foundation and the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat), aims to promote evidence-based policymaking in Zimbabwe’s healthcare and social sectors. Speaking on behalf of the ZimStat Director General at the Data-to-Policy Dissemination Forum in Harare, ZimStat’s Demography and Social Statistics Director, Mr. Aluwisio…

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