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Funds dwindling for HIV/AIDS fight in Zimbabwe
The U.S. has provided over $1 billion in the past 5 years to Zimbabwe's fight against HIV/AIDS, but experts say reduced funding may hamper the African country's target of ending the epidemic by 2030....Published: 05 Dec 2024 at 13:34hrs | 206 | by Staff reporter
How Zimbabwe's ruling elite fund their luxuries at the expense of ordinary citizens
They live a tax-free lifestyle, do not pay duty to import vehicles and yet they introduce a new tax every year to fund their luxurious lifestyle. In Zimbabwe, the stark contrast between the lifestyles...Published: 29 Nov 2024 at 12:38hrs | 820 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Zimbabweans to buy their own condoms?
Donors have reportedly started scaling down their support for HIV response measures in Zimbabwe, raising concerns that essential resources like condoms may no longer be provided for free in the near f...Published: 12 Nov 2024 at 11:01hrs | 1106 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe hunts for 100 000 HIV positive people running away from treatment
The National Aids Council (NAC) in Zimbabwe is urgently searching for approximately 100,000 individuals who are HIV positive but not receiving antiretroviral treatment (ARVs). Despite 10.6% of the pop...Published: 07 Aug 2024 at 17:17hrs | 1081 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs US$10 million to procure condoms
Zimbabwe needs to raise over US$10 million from domestic sources to support condom procurement for 2025 and 2026 due to the withdrawal of donor funding. The country has three markets for condoms: publ...Published: 29 Jul 2024 at 04:11hrs | 92 | by Staff reporter
Outcry over ECD poor funding in Zimbabwe
UNDERFUNDING of early childhood development (ECD) education has riled Members of Parliament amid revelations that Zimbabwe has 17 000 ECD classrooms out of the required 30 000.Parliamentary Po...Published: 15 Jun 2023 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
People living with albinism need help
Tinevimbo is an outgoing bubbling sixth-grader who finds it difficult to make friends. Most girls look at her mockingly and sometimes with utter disdain. During break time at school, no one wa...Published: 21 Dec 2021 at 11:56hrs | 9 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Adequately fund health sector: MPs
LEGISLATORS have called on Treasury to adequately fund the health sector which has for decades been heavily dependent on development partners.This comes after Finance minister Mthuli Ncube (pi...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:18hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Both ZANU PF and MDC have betrayed and failed people of Zimbabwe, and it's time for citizens to reclaim their power
There is no better definition of 'fail', as the one provided by my trusted dictionary, which says, "Not to achieve a particular stated goal" - and as such, there is no other more appropriate way to de...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 09:38hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
How to kill a country
Nearly forty years ago Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, became the first and only white colonial ruler to break away from the British Crown. He had tired of London's nagging about the subjug...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 16:49hrs | 3 | by Samantha Power
Calls mount for NAC board reconstitution
STAKEHOLDERS have scaled up calls on the Health minister Obadiah Moyo and Health Services Board (HSB) to urgently reconstitute the National Aids Council (NAC) board and appoint a substantive chief exe...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 08:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
ARVs shortage looms: NAC
Zimbabwe is facing serious shortages of life-saving HIV drugs following the devaluation of the local currency, which wiped away funds collected by the National Aids Council through the Aids levy....Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 09:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Patriotic Union of MaNdebeleland
While I was going through my archives I came across the Election Manifesto below. Quite interesting.PATRIOTIC UNION OF MANDEBELELAND (PUMA)ELECTION MANIFES...Published: 21 May 2019 at 12:35hrs | 12 | by PUMA
Zimra targets tax dodgers
WHEN the taxman pays an impromptu visit, they all shut their doors; and when he calls-in everyone stampedes for the exits just to get a good reason to say "no one heard the call".Very few peop...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 16:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
National Aids Council splurges fortune on executives' cars
The National Aids Council (Nac) sold cars to its executives for $1 each in October last year, and is now paying the executives $2 000 per month each, for using the same vehicles, since Nac has not yet...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 22:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
ARV shortage looms
GOVERNMENT says it is expecting a deficit in antiretroviral (ARV) drugs between now and 2020 due to an increase in uptake of the HIV and Aids treatment programme.The Health and Child Care mini...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 08:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa tells Mnangagwa to take blame for labour unrest
GOVERNMENT should take blame for the collapse of the health sector and stop blaming the opposition for inciting doctors and other civil servants to go on strike, the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC has said....Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 11:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
NAC engages parliamentarians in HIV response
The National Aids Council (NAC) held an HIV and Aids sensitisation workshop for newly-elected members of parliament and senators recently as part of its advocacy strategy. The group was specifically t...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 09:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti is a clever lawyer - but no match for Mthuli in the economic sphere
AFTER weeks of conjecture we had the first budget of the new government on Thursday. Finance minister Mthuli Ncube was not thrown by the chaos that resulted when the MDC members refused to respect the...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 06:20hrs | | by Eddie Cross
A 'Operation restore citizen-power' only path to Zimbabwe's prosperity
As Zimbabwe commemorates last year's military intervention that led to the removal of long-time president Robert Gabriel Mugabe, and replaced by his then recently expelled deputy Emmerson Dambudzo Mna...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 08:56hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Supporting Mnangagwa without backing Zanu PF, backing MDC without supporting Chamisa
"Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator," observed a sage.I am not into political prophecy, but this week last year - precisely November 6, 2017, the day then President Robert Mugabe s...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 05:17hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Mnangagwa's government desperately needs money to finance its operations
IT is an undeniable fact that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government desperately needs to raise money to finance its operations.However, we believe the regime ought to have properly account...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 06:50hrs | | by Editorial - newsday
CSOs weigh in on Monetary Policy
Civil Society Organisations (CSO) convened at NANGO to deliberate on the implications of the monetary policy on civic organisations and to forge a way forward.CSO leaders concurred on the need...Published: 07 Oct 2018 at 08:30hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Nothing wrong in principle with 2% electronic transfer tax
"In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes," observed presciently Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), one of the founding fathers of the United States, who was both a philoma...Published: 06 Oct 2018 at 09:14hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Turning dream of a $10bn budget into reality
IT is now 24 days to D-Day - the day of democracy, when we all go to a polling station and at the cost of about $50 each (the cost of an election in Zimbabwe) we are asked to appoint our next batch of...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 07:07hrs | | by Eddie Cross
Deputy Finance Minister grilled over airtime health levy fund
SENATORS on Thursday grilled the Deputy Minister of Finance and Economic Development Terrence Mukupe on why Treasury was only disbursing 50 percent of the health levy fund from airtime to the Ministry...Published: 14 Apr 2018 at 11:21hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Voting for Zanu pf will take us further back
People always make a comparison between Zimbabwe and our neighbours, South Africa, especially after a visit there. Someone will say our country could have been like this Africa economic giant because ...Published: 04 Apr 2018 at 07:27hrs | | by AT Kadada
Zimbabwe's Aids levy charms countries
HEALTH minister David Parirenyatwa has said Zimbabwe's National Aids Trust Fund has registered resounding success in the fight against HIV and Aids, with many neighbouring countries sending representa...Published: 03 Apr 2018 at 12:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
The Big Issues of the 2018 Campaign
After many elections dominated by politics, ZANU PF has made 2018 elections to be economic issues, it will be an election dominated by economic issues. In the past voters consistently rank the politic...Published: 30 Mar 2018 at 08:48hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Parirenyatwa acussed of appointing wife's friends, relatices into NAC board
Health minister David Parirenyatwa has been accused of stuffing the National Aids Council Board (NAC) board with family friends and relatives.According to NewZimbabwe.com, the minister dismiss...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 08:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dr Stamps' hero status to be decided
ZANU-PF has said it will be guided by recommendations coming from the Office of the President and Cabinet on the hero status of the late Health Advisor to the President and Cabinet Dr Timothy Stamps....Published: 28 Nov 2017 at 05:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's health advisor dies
Health Advisor to the President and Cabinet Dr Timothy Stamps has died.He was 81.Dr Stamps, who is the former Minister of Health and Child Care, died yesterday afternoon at Borrowdale ...Published: 27 Nov 2017 at 05:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt to tap into Aids levy to fight cancer scourge
GOVERNMENT will now use resources mobilised through the Aids levy to fight the cancer scourge that continues to ravage society.It is estimated that 7 000 Zimbabweans are diagnosed of cancer ev...Published: 19 Oct 2017 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
ARV shortage: A stitch in time saves nine
Zimbabwe is among sub-Saharan African countries working tirelessly to meet the United Nations' 90-90-90 ambitious target to help end the HIV and Aids pandemic by 90 percent in 2020. On Monday, Zimbabw...Published: 23 Aug 2017 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Increased cases of drug resistant HIV puts strain on national stocks
Increased cases of drug resistant HIV are contributing to shortages of Abacavier, a drug given to HIV positive people, who would have failed or reacted to initial drug combinations, thereby exerting p...Published: 23 Aug 2017 at 05:51hrs | | by Staff Reporter
ARVs shortage in hospitals
The country has been hit by a shortage of antiretroviral drugs in public health institutions raising fears of drug interruptions among people taking the life-saving treatment should the situation cont...Published: 21 Aug 2017 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cancer overtakes HIV as top killer
Over 80 percent of cancer cases are diagnosed at end stage in Zimbabwe, amid revelations that an average 5 000 new cases are recorded every year.Underfunding and information gaps are worsening...Published: 15 Jul 2017 at 11:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Aids Levy to fund cancer fight
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 ...Published: 25 Jun 2017 at 12:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to divert Aids levy to cancer treatment
Government will be diverting part of money collected for the Aids levy to bankroll cancer treatment, Health and Child Care minister David Parirenyatwa has said.Aids levy - introduced in Januar...Published: 22 Jun 2017 at 13:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's govt squandered diamond revenues
DESPITE complaints from government which make it appear as though Treasury did not receive meaningful remittances from diamond mining companies, it has emerged the fiscus got US$472 million from Mbada...Published: 13 Apr 2017 at 14:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Cancer Levy condemned
Community Working Group on health officials have condemned plans by government to introduce cancer levy saying it could further burben members of the public who are struggling to make ends meet....Published: 10 Apr 2017 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Pasuwa, Zifa divorce..Malawi after him
COACH Calisto Pasuwa is today expected to cut ties with Zifa as Malawi is said to be after his services.Pasuwa had signed a contract on February 1 last year but he had started work...Published: 28 Feb 2017 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'No sex workers in Zimbabwe" -- Senator says
ZANU PF Senator Tapera Machingaifa has ruled that there are no commercial sex workers in Zimbabwe.The senator told the upper house that if sex workers do exisit, he asked whether they pay Aids...Published: 06 Feb 2017 at 09:57hrs | | by Mary Charamba
Mnangagwa toasts 'enemy' US
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has hailed the relationship between Zimbabwe and the United States in the fight against HIV and Aids despite their political differences. He said the US gover...Published: 02 Dec 2016 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe misses Aids levy collections target
The government has saved about $200 million of the $555 million allocated by the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria for 2014-2016 period, the National Aids Council has said.Sp...Published: 30 Mar 2016 at 06:45hrs | | by Paidamoyo Chipunza
HIV and Aids patients in great danger
HIV and Aids patients are in great danger if international donors pull out, a senior health expert warned.Addressing journalists at a National Aids Council (Nac) workshop, Natpharm's represent...Published: 29 Mar 2016 at 14:53hrs | | by Staff Reporter
PDP position on the Land Compensation Fund Framework
The People's Democratic Party (PDP) welcomes the proposed establishment of the Land Compensation Fund (LCF) which seeks to attract resources for the compensation of commercial farmers whose properties...Published: 10 Mar 2016 at 06:51hrs | | by Vince Musewe - PDP Secretary for Finance and Economic Affairs.
Eddie Cross says mining output will be affected by decline in international commodity prices
The MDC-T MP Eddie Cross has said mining output is going to be affected by the serious continuing decline in international commodity prices and he do not see any prospects of recovery in 2016....Published: 18 Dec 2015 at 06:12hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
'Fast-track HIV response,' says Mnangagwa
Africa needs to fast track its efforts towards responding to HIV and Aids to meet the set global target of ending the pandemic by 2030, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said. Officially o...Published: 30 Nov 2015 at 05:11hrs | | by Paidamoyo Chipunza
Zimbabweans suffocating under unjustified levies
Dear Editor,Zimbabweans Suffocating under unjustified levies The spat of levies being introduced by government, the latest of which is the r...Published: 22 Nov 2015 at 08:47hrs | | by Ilos Nyoni, MDC National Executive member
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