Tag: SIMBARASHE MABAYA

Zimbabwean Doctor Amongst The Team Designing the Gavi Hepatitis B Birth Dose Vaccine Programme

Michael Gwarisa

Renowned Zimbabwean Medical Doctor, Simbarashe Mabaya who is now stationed in Geneva at the Gavi Vaccine Alliance Headquarters, is part of the team that is designing a programme for the delivery of a vaccine to prevent mother-to-child transmission of the Hepatitis B virus in 55 Gavi- eligible countries across the globe. By Michael Gwarisa The Hepatitis B Birth dose vaccine programme is a new addition to the portfolio of vaccines support by Gavi. Gavi has been supporting the delivery of the Hepatitis B vaccine primary course excluding the birth dose…

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Demystifying Dolutegravir based antiretroviral drug regimens

Healthtimes

ZIMBABWE recently joined other nations to adopt the new HIV treatment regimens that contain Dolutegravir (DTG).  The complete transition process for Zimbabwe however, will not take less than 10 months to be fully implemented considering that the country has over a million people on first line HIV medicines. By Michael Gwarisa and Dr. Simbarashe Mabaya Countries  adopt normative guidance by the World Health Organization (WHO) which is based on rigorous review and analysis of scientific evidence. Based on this review WHO develops recommendations which make up the next guidelines. Countries…

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